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Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick has a great, well, rant on how the Terri Schiavo legislation passed this weekend trashes the rule of law in this country.

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Anil Dash describes the Blog Cycle. It’s funny because it’s true.

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Don’t miss this post on Terry Schiavo from Hilzoy at Obsidian Wings. Here’s the bottom line:

First, in this country competent adults have the right to decline medical treatment. This is a very good thing, since many of the things doctors do to their patients would constitute assault if done against those patients’ wills. It is [...]

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In the least surprising announcement ever, Yahoo has acquired Ludicorp, the company behind Flickr. How unsurprising was it? The headline of the announcement is Yahoo actually does acquire Flickr. I wonder if the Ludicorp crew is going to stay in Vancouver or move down to the Valley?

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I have my own opinions on the Terri Schiavo case, which aren’t that interesting or unusual. Today, I found a pointer (via Respectful of Otters) to an excellent Web page that does an excellent job of running down the facts of the case. It’s these facts that seem to be largely absent from the debate, [...]

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Looks like Mark Kleiman persuaded Eugene Volokh to amend his position on the advisability of torturing criminals as part of their punishment. I’ll agree with both of them that vindication is a legitimate end in the justice system. I’ll also say that the willingness to publicly change one’s opinion after making such a provocative [...]

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Miguel de Icaza of Gnome and Mono fame took a vacation in Lebanon and wound up visiting the Sabra and Chatila refugee camps, where Lebanese militiamen massacred Palestinian refugees in 1982. I had no idea that the camps still existed and are more densely populated than ever.

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It’s not often that I read something that literally makes my jaw drop. That happened this morning when I read conservative legal scholar Eugene Volokh’s enthusiastic endorsement of execution by torture and strangulation, as practiced in Iran. Needless to say, his thoughts on the matter have attracted a firestorm of comments. Matthew Yglesias is worth [...]

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Today I take my first steps down a path that really scares me — object oriented PHP. I love object oriented design, and I feel like I understand it pretty darn well. The question is how to take a very procedural PHP application and graft some object oriented bits onto it. This application happens to [...]

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Eric Lunt recommends Hibernate in Action highly. I’m still reading the pickaxe book (Programming Ruby), but I’m going to add this one to the queue.

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