Tag Archives: Law & Policy

Lessig’s Wake

By alex | Published: 6/13/2006
The New Yorker has a wonderful story on the James Joyce estate, and it’s overprotective keeper, Stephen Joyce (the author’s grandson). My erstwhile academic home, SUNY Buffalo, features prominently due to its Joyce library. The article suggests that the estate, with the aid of the most recent extension of copyright, has a stranglehold on the […]
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Who killed the electric car?

By alex | Published: 6/7/2006
This is a mystery I’ve always been interested in, and so I was intrigued when I saw the trailer for this. Saw it before that very interesting piece of propaganda: An Inconvenient Truth, a film that argues compellingly that those who chose Powerpoint over Keynote, and Bush over Gore, should feel pretty stupid about now. […]
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Yarrr.

By alex | Published: 6/4/2006
Went to see District B13 on opening day with two friends. Throw in the popcorn and soda, and we were at nearly $50. It’s especially expensive to see films in New York, but it’s expensive to see them anywhere. I still go and see a movie whenever there is anything remotely watchable in the theater. […]
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Of grills and other implants

By alex | Published: 4/11/2006
Strange story on CNN about an attempt to seize suspects’ “fancy teeth”. The FBI tried to whisk a couple of drug dealers off to a dentist to… get up in their grills, I guess. Their attorney put a stop to it. But it does raise some interesting issues. Do they go to jail with gems […]
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