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EFF Appeals Dismissal of Warrantless Wiretapping Case
EFF has filed its appeal to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals of the dismissal of Jewel v. NSA, the case EFF brought against the U.S. government and government officials on behalf of AT&T customers to stop the National Security Agency’s illegal,...
Trying to Finish the Book
As I recently observed, I have been reading Ira Gitler’s Swing to Bop: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s. For all the problematic elements of oral history, which I have previously cited, now with reinforcement from Max...
Crystal Dynamics® Announces Lara Croft And the Guardian of Light
Crystal Dynamics®, a part of Square Enix Europe, has announced Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light(TM), a new game developed by Crystal Dynamics, which will be released via digital download in 2010.The CHUTZPAH of Consistency
We tend to associate consistency with Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “hobgoblin of little minds;” but, if we read beyond that oft-quoted sentence, we discover a sentence in which Emerson advocates consistency viewed through the other end of...The Loudest Voice Strikes Again
As the San Francisco Chronicle gets thinner and thinner, I find that I spend more time with its RSS feeds than I do with the print edition. Furthermore, I realize that, where local news is concerned (which is the only news I now get from the Chronicle),...
Shinjuku Incident with Jackie Chan Opens Nationwide on February 5
“Jackie Chan in Shinjuku Incident” will open nationwide in select U.S. cities including Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Atlanta, Honolulu, Houston and Seattle on February 5 , bringing together two of Hong Kong’s biggest box office draws: international...The Violence of Crowds
Perhaps the most compelling reason for skepticism concerning the “wisdom of crowds” is the strong case of historical evidence that, with the reinforcement of a crowd, the individual is more inclined towards violent action than towards considered...Making Our Own Listening History
I just finished reading Chloe Veltman’s latest post to her lies like truth blog under the title “Should Composers Conduct Their Own Works?” The claim she was trying to warrant was that, over the course of the two Project San Francisco...
