Tag Archives: Law & Policy

W IP

By alex | Published: 10/25/2005
“We do have a sense of humor, believe it or not.” So says Trent Duffy, a White House spokesman on the recent letter to The Onion indicating that they were illegally making use of the presidential seal. (Via the New York Times; see Bugmenot for a password.)
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Yahoo Will Scan Books

By alex | Published: 10/3/2005
Google ran into a snag on their digitization project, but let’s see what a little bit of open content competition will do for the process. The New York Times is running an article on the Open Content Alliance. The interesting difference here is that the OCA is based on many hands making light work. Rather […]
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Ang Lecture

By alex | Published: 9/29/2005
On Monday (10/3), Ang Peng Hwa, Dean of the School of Communication and Information at NTU, will be giving a talk entitled “The UN Working Group on Internet Governance: An Insider’s Perspective.” (Yes, a practice run for his keynote at IR 6.0, I’m sure.) The talk is at 2pm in 545 O’Brian. I would encourage […]
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Chimera Discrimination

By alex | Published: 7/30/2005
First they came for the chimeras: S. 659: The Human Chimera Prohibition Act of 2005 On March 17, Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS), introduced S. 659, the Human Chimera Prohibition Act of 2005. The bill would prohibit any person from creating, or attempting to create a human chimera. A “human chimera” is broadly defined to include […]
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