For future reference: a long investigative article on the purported innocence of Leonard Peltier.
Entries from February 2001
February 28th, 2001 · Comments Off
February 28th, 2001 · Comments Off
You know a company is cool when the person who gets top billing on their logo sightings page is a porn star.
February 28th, 2001 · Comments Off
Yesterday, Judge Jackson got his day in court. Well, his day to get savaged remotely in court anyway. What an idiot.
February 28th, 2001 · Comments Off
Is Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia the most dangerous man in America? Probably.
February 27th, 2001 · Comments Off
Joe Conason has been on a roll lately. In his latest column for Salon, he looks back at some of the pardons granted by the elder Bush. Included in his pardons along with the members of the Iran-Contra scandal were a Pakistani heroin smuggler, a Cuban terrorist, and suspected Commie sympathizer Armand Hammer. [...]
February 27th, 2001 · Comments Off
Interesting goings on at the Microsoft appeal yesterday. Dahlia Lithwick summarizes for Slate. Declan McCullagh provides the libertarian spin for Wired.
February 26th, 2001 · Comments Off
Looks like the 39% number being tossed around by the RIAA is a bunch of crap. I noticed some seemingly misplaced talk about CD singles in the original BBC story, which didn’t make it clear that the 39% number concerns only CD singles, which make up a minute percentage of overall CD sales. The [...]
February 26th, 2001 · Comments Off
The Register has the full story on the “All your base are belong to us” phenomonon. I knew it was going to be big when Jon Carroll wrote a column about it last week. My favorite “all your base” takeoff is this Flash movie.
February 26th, 2001 · Comments Off
The RIAA says that CD sales were down 39% last year. Are they lying? They blame Napster. Is that realistic? I wonder what percentage of people who normally buy CDs have ever seen Napster. I wonder how many of the people that use Napster actually use it to collect music. [...]
February 26th, 2001 · Comments Off
Where does free speech stop and the DMCA start? Let’s find out. Is it legal to express the DeCSS algorithm in haiku? And you have to love Dr. David Touretzky’s request for more detail from the MPA when they asked him to remove a “circumvention device” from his Web site.