links for 2007-05-22
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Cannes is smacking its lips in anticipation of filmmaker and provocateur Michael Moore’s latest jeremiad against the US administration, which receives its premiere at the film festival today. Sicko, a documentary tackling the state of American healthcare,
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CANNES. France (Hollywood Reporter) – This is the movie where Michael Moore gets a few Michael Moore haters off his back. “Sicko” posits an uncontroversial, if not incontrovertible, proposition: The health care system in the U.S. is sick. Even a right-win
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With so much at stake, it is right that climate science is subjected to the most intense scrutiny. What does not help is for the real issues to be muddied by discredited arguments or wild theories. So for those who are not sure what to believe, here is ou
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In an effort to rally support for the underdog media format, the Free Software Foundation has launched PlayOgg.org, a website promoting awareness of the Ogg format. It’s an educational primer for playing Ogg Vorbis audio files and Ogg Theora video files o
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A field ion microscope (FIM) image of a very sharp tungsten needle. The small round features are individual atoms. The lighter colored elongated features are traces captured as atoms moved during the imaging process (approximately 1 second).
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IF the open-source software movement were an upstart political campaign, Chris Messina would be one of its community organizers — the young volunteer who decamps to New Hampshire, knocking on doors, putting up signs.
In 2004, Mr. Messina, a 26-year-o
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In a New York Times article on May 20, 2007 (“A Great Idea Lives Forever. Shouldn’t Its Copyright?”), Mark Helprin suggests that copyrights, like physical property rights, should last forever. In fact, the two are vastly different, both inherently and i
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nternet storms have a halflife of two weeks at best. By this time next week, the tempest over Comics Foundry’s print iteration failing to be picked up by Diamond will have faded off the radar. Hell, Diamond will probably relent anyway. Print is important.
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May 21, 2007 — After identity thieves wiped out a Bronx mom’s life savings, her neighborhood bank sprung into action – by slapping her with a lawsuit.
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This week’s issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) is the best article I have ever seen written in the published literature documenting the tragedy of the traditional medical paradigm. This information is a followup of the Institu
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