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Phil Greenspun has posed his own account of what’s going on with the lawsuit filed against him by arsDigita and its venture capitalist investors. It’s a wonderful cautionary tale for those who would get in bed with VCs.

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Ford is suing 2600 (and Eric Corley, natch) for redirecting a profane domain name to their Web site. That’s silly. This is the first I’ve heard of this case, and I can’t find anything about it on the 2600 Web site. I must know immediately: what is that profane domain name?

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More details on the SDMI thing: the rules of the contest included a “no publishing clause. The Princeton research team did not participate in the contest. Apparently, the SDMI greedheads are arguing that by clicking through on an agreement to download the sample files used in the contest, the Princeton team implicitly agreed to [...]

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Is it possible to destroy the music industry without eliminating the prospect of income for musicians and songwriters? I hope so, because I firmly believe that if we don’t destroy the music industry, it will continue to subvert our constitutional freedomes one by one. The latest example is the SDMI’s threat of legal [...]

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Salon’s interview with Adam Isacson addresses a lot of my questions about the downing of a civilian flight transporting missionaries by Peruvian antidrug forces. The plane was shot down by a plane made in the US, paid for with US drug war funds, and given to the Peruvian air force for the purpose of [...]

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The weekend incident where a Peruvian military aircraft shot down a plane carrying U.S. missionaries raises a number of tough questions. The order to intercept the plane, which was suspected to be carrying drug smugglers, was given by a Peruvian aboard a CIA-operated surveillance aircraft. How can the other members of the crew of [...]

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I’ve gotten a number of messages from people confident in their search engine skills on the Carol Brady thing. Most people came up with the answer “Martin,” which is incorrect. Her maiden name is “Tyler,” “Martin” is her previous married name. It was in many ways the perfect question for foiling contestants [...]

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One of the contestants last night on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire is the wife of former major league baseball player Jack Aker. Here are his career stats (courtesy of Baseball Reference, which is back up, at least temporarily). Also, someone got to the million dollar question last night and phoned a [...]

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An Economist op-ed favors continued U.S. surveillance of China.

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