17. Mar, 2000 - I really ought to have something about Ireland in here.
- The Irish Times is a good newspaper. They also have a pretty easy
URL to remember. And a lot of coverage of St. Patrick's Festival 2000
(though it'll be too late for anyone who isn't already in Dublin).
- From MotherJones.com: Don't Cry for Bush, Argentina. If you want
to get business done in Argentina (or Nigeria or Kuwait), it helps if
your last name is Bush. Or even Shrub.
- Comment from Greg Aharonian on An Open Letter from Jeff Bezos.
Greg's site is Internet Patent News.
There's also O'Reilly Network: The Harm of Patents, which is a
conversation between Tim O'Reilly and RMS.
If you're interested in continuing coverage of this mess, watch
Greg's site, Dave Winer's Scripting News, or Dan Gillmor's
News, Views and a Silicon Valley Diary.
One other resource that nobody seems to have mentioned is the
League for Programming Freedom which was one of the first to want to
fight software patents. Unfortunately, their site is really slow.
As for me, I've had about enough of the issue this time around. I
still think software patents are a bad idea, but I'm probably
done linking to things about 'em for a while.
- A very important message from Harry Browne tells how Harry (a
Libertarian candidate for president) is planning to deliberately violate
campaign laws, and then fight them in court. What can you do? If you've
got more than $1000 to contribute, and are willing to risk a small fine,
send 'em the money (once they've determined they're actually going
through with it). They also need contributions now to pay the lawyers to
figure out whether this scheme will even work.
- In Denver, No-knocks net little jail time. Of 146 no-knock raids last
year, the result was two felony convictions. And one suspect
killed. That doesn't seem like a very good average to me.
- On a lighter note, Tale of a teen-age communist - how a few years at
Amherst turned a budding collectivist into a libertarian. I think his
parents got their money's worth out of their son's college costs.
- Apple - Homeschool is Apple's collection of links with Home Schooling
resources. The most interesting thing about this page is that there's not
a link to it from anywhere else on Apple's site (as far as I can determine).
The only way to find it is by searching. I suppose that's due to complaints
from schools or some such, but it's kind of disappointing to have the page
so well hidden. So I had to point it out.
- In Seattle, Washington: Anti-spam e-mail suit tossed out. That's a
setback for the forces of good, I think. Sigh.
- Thursday night I got a call from the Keyes 2000 folks. Since Alan is back
in the money for matching funds (he did good in Utah), I was expecting it.
The ironic thing was that the phone call interrupted me in listening to
Sympathy for the Devil. I think it was some sort of sign.
- Smut for Dull Men 'nuf said.
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