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Twitter Links The Enlightenment, Naturalism, And The Secularization Of Values
The most influential contribution of the Enlightenment to modern thought, after its transformation of religious toleration from a negative to a positive value, was…

March 20 2012, 11:20am | Comments
Link The meaning of monsters, magic and miracles
Monsters demonstrate, monsters alert us: whether or not the etymologies relating the word to both “monstro” (I show) and “moneo” (I warn), are correct, monsters act as a moral compass.…

February 9 2012, 11:33am | Comments
Link What Immanuel Kant got right about digital piracy
It turns out that Kant didn't think that an author could mount a strong legal case against piracy based on property rights in words. After all, even after pirates copied…

January 30 2012, 5:28pm | Comments
Twitter Links Internet Regulation & the Economics of Piracy
Since the core function of copyright is to incentivize the production of creative works, it’s also worth looking for signs of declining output associated…

January 19 2012, 8:08am | Comments
Twitter Links The US schools with their own police
One of the most shocking stories I've ever read: the criminalisation of childhood in Texas

January 10 2012, 10:36am | Comments
Wikipedia Trap street A trap street is a fictitious entry in the form of a misrepresented street on a map, often outside the area the map nominally covers, for the purpose…

October 16 2011, 9:10am | Comments
Twitter Links Samir Chopra and Laurence F. White: A Legal Theory for Autonomous Artificial Agents, University of Michigan…
RT @XiXiDu: A Legal Theory for Autonomous Artificial Agents http://t.co/RioYhh3 x #agency #ai #law #politics #books #autonomy

August 15 2011, 1:47am | Comments
Link Internet Activist Aaron Swartz Indicted for Data Theft:…
For a long time, it was the folks who downloaded music or movies illegally that faced the wrath of government prosecutors. So the unsealing of an indictment today against Aaron…

July 20 2011, 4:10am | Comments
Tumblr (Quote) Michel Serres, The Birth of Physics
“Nothing new under the reign of the same and under the same reign, preserved. Nothing new and nothing to be born, no nature. This is death, eternally. Nature put to death, its birth unwanted. The science of this…

July 7 2011, 12:03pm | Comments
Link The decline of the serial killer
The number of serial murders seems to be dwindling, as does the public's fascination with them. "It does seem the golden age of serial murderers is probably past," says Harold…

January 6 2011, 8:55pm | Comments
Link On the Absolute, the Sublime, and Ecstatic Truth
This text was originally delivered by Werner Herzog as a speech in Milano, Italy, following a screening of his film “Lessons of Darkness” on the fires in Kuwait. He was…

October 17 2010, 2:33pm | Comments
Link UK government acts to prevent arrest of Pope
The UK government is said to have set in motion a law change that will prevent the Pope from being arrested when he visits the country in September. Officials in…

July 25 2010, 7:14am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Inside Code: A Conversation with Dr. Lane DeNicola…

June 13 2010, 9:25pm | Comments
Link Radio Open Source » The Ecstasy of Influence
We can’t stop talking about Jonathan Lethem’s essay in this month’s Harper’s. If you haven’t read it, you really should. Nothing that follows in this post will be nearly as…

May 29 2010, 2:01am | Comments
Link The ecstasy of influence: A plagiarism, By Jonathan…
Consider this tale: a cultivated man of middle age looks back on the story of an amour fou, one beginning when, traveling abroad, he takes a room as a lodger.…

May 29 2010, 2:00am | Comments
Link 'It's time to let you hear the song…
Aged 17, I set about writing a song for a girl I was obsessed with. When she heard it, she called the police. Have a listen – you'll understand why.…

April 9 2010, 3:34am | Comments
Link Code is Law
Every age has its potential regulator, its threat to liberty. Our founders feared a newly empowered federal government; the Constitution is written against that fear. John Stuart Mill worried about…

February 7 2010, 10:20am | Comments
Link GOOD COPY BAD COPY
A documentary about the current state of copyright and culture

September 14 2009, 3:17am | Comments
Link NASA moon bombing violates space law & may…
The planned October 9, 2009 bombing of the moon by a NASA orbiter that will bomb the moon with a 2-ton kinetic weapon to create a 5 mile wide deep…

June 23 2009, 1:39am | Comments

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