Copyright Law

Half a Dozen to Go

Posted on February 28, 2009

Squirrel Sausages

Posted on February 25, 2009
In the NYT, a lukewarm article (probably written by a journalism major) asks how we justify the humanities during a recession. Which begs two much larger questions: How do we justify MBA programs when MBA-think is what got us into this recession in the first place? Frankly, we can't — especially when what passes for quantitative reasoning in MBA programs is so divorced from the real

Tearing Apart the Sausage Grinder

Posted on February 24, 2009
I'm mostly working under the hood on the blawg today, doing some long-overdue maintenance on the static panel and simplifying some style designations. Nothing to see here, citizens — move along. Well, maybe there is something to see: First up, a little amusement from the land of right-wing ideology...

The World's a Mess

Posted on February 21, 2009
...and I just need to rule it. Saturday sausages: Of late, there have been more rumblings from the antivaccination crowd. The best response to those numbskulls is a description of the diseases in question. Better yet, a trip to a village stricken with pertussis...

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President's Day Sausages

Posted on February 16, 2009
I've spent most of the weekend doing recovery from the fried computer (sauced with a bit of ketsap manis), so things are a bit behind. Thus, a particularly miscellaneous set of link sausages... We'll start off with a song that sounds very much as if it was written for the immediate past resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, DC...

Fish and Chimps

Posted on February 12, 2009
These sausages have evolved — and will continue evolving in your intellectual digestive tract. In dubious honor of Charles Darwin, we have an all-Darwin sausage link platter (some of them uncooked)! Customize your vehicle with a Darwinfish (or, perhaps, a missing link)...

Murphy's Sausages

Posted on February 09, 2009
Still in the land of "technical difficulties": The dryer must have heard about all of the attention other things in the house were getting, because it decided to die. Here's a vastly amusing set of Hermione Granger music mashups (including a really disturbing Hermione/Snape implied-'ship bit, just in time for Valentine's Day)...

Handmade Sausages

Posted on February 05, 2009
Technical difficulties abound here: The cordless phone's battery is almost dead, and the motherboard on the main machine (the file server) is just about dead... to the point that it won't recognize either the mouse or the keyboard. Thus, this set of sausage links is virtually handmade, using a laptop that was initially certified for Windows98SE (and is still more powerful than the entire Apollo

Sausages Made Out of What???

Posted on February 02, 2009
Today's link platter is preceded by an antepasto recognition of Groundhog Day, in my usual sick, twisted manner. And now, the main course. I was appalled — offended, even — by the halftime "show" at the Super Bowl. The only thing in that stadium bigger than Springsteen's paycheck was his ego, which must approach Shatneresque proportions if he thought collection of off-key, off-rhythm,

All-Natural Sausages

Posted on January 30, 2009
There are parts of the internet that do not get used to make internet link sausages. You won't find any of them here; this post includes only all-natural ingredients (for some value of "natural"). Maybe swarming locusts just need some Prozac to keep from interfering with humanity's attempt to swarm the whole damned planet...

Congratulations, Governor Quinn

Posted on January 29, 2009
Rod Blagojevich — not to mention that alien creature lying on top of his head — no longer occupies the Governor's Mansion in Springfield, Illinois. On a 59–0 vote, the Illinois Senate convicted him on the articles of impeachment, despite Blagojevich's impassioned plea in self-defense this morning...

Abridged Sausages

Posted on January 27, 2009
Just a short, highly edited link sausage platter this morning. In the good news department, Neil Gaiman won the Newbery Medal for The Graveyard Book. Thus far, no confirmation from disinterested observers on whether he echoed the opening of his acceptance speech for a Hugo a few years back...

Saturday Sausage Platter

Posted on January 24, 2009
It's been a relatively quiet couple of days, aside from bloviation over various award nominations (mostly from cretins who refuse to accept context as significant) and working on a couple of behind-the-scenes filings to help out a colleague. But that does not mean there is no amusement to be had...

Sausage Visuals

Posted on January 22, 2009
More sausage links today... this time with pictures. Those of you who are squeamish about what the internet makes have been warned! The second half of Professor Baker's essay on what ails journalism (or is that Ailes? but that's an argument for another time) has appeared at Balkinization...

Cocktail Weenies

Posted on January 21, 2009
Just a few small selected link sausages from the post-Inauguration pupu platter. Feeling lost in the publishing world? Find your station on this subway map of publishing. For some reason, though, you can't get here from there... perhaps because I'm obstinately not in New York, and therefore outside the reach of the subway...

Free at Last

Posted on January 20, 2009
The oath has been taken. The "Inaugural Address" is merely a time-wasting coda. Aside from the protocol screwups (salutes to the President-elect under cover by uniformed military personnel; Dianne Feinstein's failure to welcome the Chief Justice and Justice Stevens); the offensive, sectarian "invocation" by the reprehensible Rick Warren; Aretha Franklin's substandard performance (at least in

His Grandmother's Hawaiian

Posted on January 19, 2009
The predictable reaction to tomorrow's noon (EST) festivities in DC from friendly small-town people like Sarah Palin, Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Ann Coulter (none of whom, by the way, lives in a small town) looks something like this: While I'm at it, maybe I'll move to Jesse Jackson's favorite city and join the Model-T Rainbow Coalition (you can be any color you want, as

Seised of the Post

Posted on January 14, 2009
Well, the Illinois House voted again to impeach Blagojevich. The previous vote was at the end of the previous term; now that new representatives have taken office, they had to vote again. Once again, there was a single vote out of 116 against impeachment...

A Publishing Squeeze (5)

Posted on January 12, 2009
[continued from 09 Jan 2009] Like a tube of toothpaste, this publishing squeeze is going to require a little bit of creative smooshing to get all of the product out. And that overextended metaphor may prove more accurate than anyone really wants to think about...

Today's Selection

Posted on January 10, 2009
An unusually diverse smorgasbørd of internet link sausages. Only ten days until Obama's Crackberry addiction moves to the White House. Will the wingnuts have to call it the Half-Black House? Russian justice still sounds like something written by Kafka (although maybe — just maybe — it's because the victim this time is a lawyer)...

A Publishing Squeeze (4)

Posted on January 08, 2009
[continued from 06 Jan 2009] The fourth common factor in the entertainment/publishing industry's problems is, in a way, a consequence of the third one. It is not a logically necessary consequence... but, in terms of human behavior, it is probably an inevitable one...

A Publishing Squeeze (3)

Posted on January 06, 2009
[continued from 03 Jan 09] The third common factor in the entertainment/publishing industry's problems is its underlying culture of secrecy, which is only exacerbated by accounting more dubious than Bernie Madoff's. A few recent web-available items help illuminate this particular problem...

A Publishing Squeeze (2)

Posted on January 03, 2009
[continued from 29 Dec 2008] The real question presented by the entertainment/publishing industry's problems is not "what?" so much as "why?". That the industry4 has significant financial (and other) challenges to look forward to should surprise nobody...

Bits of the Year That Was

Posted on January 01, 2009
This is mostly just a collection of links to remind you of some of the news of 2008 that did not involve elections. Or casino finance. The world of letters and authorship lost a few leading lights. That's not all that surprising, as "leading lights" in the world of letters and authorship tend to be old, ill, crazy, or some combination thereof...

A Publishing Squeeze

Posted on December 29, 2008
This is just a short, interim essay on the entertainment/publishing industry's problems. It is not comprehensive, by any means; it is, instead, an attempt to provide some alternate perspectives and explanations, and perhaps begin a dialogue. I have no hope whatsoever that it will actually push any reforms...

On This Day in History...

Posted on December 25, 2008
Happy birthday to Sir Isaac Newton (1642). Happy coronation anniversary to William of Hastings (1066) and Charlemagne (800). George Washington crossed the Delaware (1776) and successfully routed Hessian mercenaries in Trenton, New Jersey. Apollo 8 began its trip back to Earth (1968)...

Stigmata

Posted on December 22, 2008
Over at Professor Dorf's blaw, Professor Buchanan objects to Obama's selection of racist bigot Rick Warren to deliver the "invocation" at the Inauguration. I agree with Professor Buchanan's take on Warren, although I'm even more opposed... but on scientific, rather than social, grounds...

Impatience

Posted on December 22, 2008
I'm ordinarily a patient predator, but Sandy Levinson definitely has a point about the inordinate delay between the election and actual change of governments. And W couldn't manage with our temperature at the moment; it's got a number of digits (Fahrenheit) he could understand, but that pesky minus sign in front of it is definitely beyond his comprehension...

Sausages Frozen Solid

Posted on December 21, 2008
Early miscellany from the Ice Capades Practice Rink (that is, the local roads on the Silicon Prairie). W could even count to the temperature (Fahrenheit, since he has no concept of Celsius, let alone Kelvins... or damned near anything else scientific) without taking his shoes off! It's the 20th anniversary of Lockerbie; neither WaPo nor NYT even note it on their front pages.

Seasonal Graphic

Posted on December 20, 2008
Snurched from Thomas Christensen's blog RightReading. In twenty years, this kind of thing may be all we remember Sarah Palin for... or at least we can hope so.

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