Paul Ford publishes an excellent essay on intellectual property laws, and the chilling effect they have on innovation, in Learning to Fear the Semantic Web.
As a bonus, it includes this lovely turn of phrase:
I believe, as in don’t-get-him-started, that…
I will now have to use this in everyday conversation on a regular basis. Consider yourself warned.
McCain picks Alaska Gov. Palin as running mate - CNN.com
Palin, 44, who’s in her first term as governor, is a pioneering figure in Alaska, the first woman and the youngest person to hold the state’s top political job.
I guess it had to happen someday: a Candidate for the Presidential ticket (if not actually for President) who is younger than me.
In Transterrestrial Musings, Rand Simberg expresses a viewpoint on abortion basically identical to my own, and why it troubles me not in the least that Rudolph Giuliani is not a “real conservative”, i.e., a social conservative. My only real reservation about Rudi is his stance on gun control; and if he follows up on his apparent preference for strict constructionist justices, I have little to worry about on that score.
For the first time in my adult lifetime, one fo the major parties may be about to nominate someone that I actually want to vote for, rather than one that I least want to vote against. (In restrospect, I’m not even so crazy about the Libertarian candidates that I voted for.) Steve Forbes came close, until he started romancing the religious right; Giuliani doesn’t seem that politically inept.
Edit: Didn’t I say something about writing less on politics? Oh well, it is hard to avoid these days…