Lawrence Lessig is the originator of Creative Commons and the author of Free Culture, Code 2.0 and the The Future of Ideas. An online campaign has been setup to encourage him to run for the congressional seat vacated by Rep. Tom Lantos (who recently passed away) in California. Having a ...

via Wired: Senate Approves Telco Amnesty, Legalizes Bush's Secret Spy Program.

From the 10.09.07 Republican Primary Debate in Michigan: MATTHEWS: OK. Lets go to the police. How would you police the Internet culturally, Mr. Mayor? GIULIANI: Pardon me? MATTHEWS: How would you police the Internet culturally? You know, the whole question about the stuff that's going on, predators, that sort ...

Its official - txt space is private space. From the ny times: Saying it had the right to block “controversial or unsavory” text messages, Verizon Wireless has rejected a request from NARAL Pro-Choice America, the abortion rights group, to make Verizon’s mobile network available for a text-message program... legal experts said private ...

While reading Walter Lippmann's "A Preface to Politics" my attention was mainly drawn to his discussion of the red herring. The red herring -- a metaphor used to describe the obfuscation of, or distraction from, a particular object(ive) -- is portrayed by Lippmann (1913, p261) as both "pest" and "benefit," ...