Tom Morris: 2006-06-21

Snacksby looks like a cool idea for foodies and people like me who can't cook. It also uses the word "snacksonomy". There is quite clearly a hierarchy of snacks - what sits at the top of it, though, we shall never know. 2006-06-21T09:02:36Z

Hey, buddies, we're your allies. Yes, we have trains and owls and all that. And we sacrificed what credibility we have in the world by believing you on the WMD. You can at least acknowledge our existence. The pull-quote from that is obvious: "England: It's far too silly a place to be real". 2006-06-21T08:52:31Z

Harlequin on talk.origins points out a Michael Behe/Ann Coulter quotemine. Read the source. 2006-06-21T08:49:02Z

Dave Price demonstrates that Christine Rosen, who wrote a review of Glenn Reynold's book An Army of Davids in the National Review, doesn't understand those funny hyperlink things that we all know and love. 2006-06-21T08:26:17Z

See and hear 2006-06-21T08:41:46Z

Bryan Appleyard reminds me of how we should update an old maxim: "Children (and politicians) should be heard and not seen". It used to be the other way around. It's funny, because one of the criticisms people make of the youth today is that they are obsessed with image. They cite things like Big Brother as an example.

But in fact, "Children should be seen and not heard" is obsession with image in a way that goes beyond even the worst excesses of celebrity mania because it's unconscious.

I don't want to see children or politicians. In fact, I don't want to see the vast majority of people. I'm more interested in hearing them in whatever way they put themselves out there.

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OmniOPML? 2006-06-21T08:35:07Z

Merlin Mann has an interesting post on OmniOutliner Pro's use by a law student. OO is a good outliner, but I think that if they whole-heartedly embraced OPML and some of the benefits that OPML has, they could build something much more interesting. Writing OPML in OmniOutliner is currently a large PITA compared to writing it by hand or in the OPML Editor.

I can imagine that law school would be a place where organising large volumes of information from different sources would be important - and OPML handles that perfectly.

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What's good for the goose 2006-06-20T21:52:14Z

The copyright extremists at WIPO are meeting tommorow in Barcelona to hash out a way to destroy podcasting. Of course, that's now how they put it. They just waffle endlessly.

What the plans do is put a severe restriction on the ability of copyright owners to control what is done with their work.

Let us say I produced a piece of work for no commercial purpose - say, a CC Attribution-ShareAlike podcast - and a commercial broadcaster chooses to break the terms of my license by broadcasting it without attribution or without sharing their derivative work.

This is a treaty to allow major broadcasters to break copyright and take away any possible sanctions for usurping the intellectual property rights of individual and small fry owners - exactly the people who need the protection of the law the most! - in order to quash the threat they believe (rightly) podcasting and online media is likely to be.

This is a landgrab of the worst order. We need to find out who represents us at WIPO and go through eggs at them if this ridiculous treaty passes. I'm not kidding. I'm drafting a letter to my MP. You should too.

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2006.06.21