shouting loudly

It was already shameful enough that HBO got the exclusive TV rights to broadcast the video of the inaugural concert. Compounding this shame, HBO was sending DMCA takedown notices to YouTube for clips that concertgoers made themselves.
Over at Public Knowledge, Daniel McCartney’s take is that HBO is trying to own history. I’d have to agree.
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I’ve been too busy to write a blog post about iTunes reaching a deal with the labels to remove DRM on all their music–a sign of DRM crumbling under market forces alone.
Conveniently, Ed Felten wrote it for me.

Today Barack Obama sent out a message to their uber-list titled “the future of this movement.”  It redirected to a brief youtube message from the President-elect, where he announced the formation of Organizing for America, “the organization that will build on the movement you started during the campaign.”  The group will have four initial priorities: [...]

While I’ve been on the road, I missed this very awesome interview on the Colbert Report:
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The Colbert ReportMon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
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Props to EFF for the link.

In the summer of 2005, I attended a 2 week course at the Annenberg Sunnylands’ Institute in Statistics and Methodology (ASIMS, aka “Stats Camp”) in Palm Desert, CA. I took the class on regression and ANOVA, taught (very well) by Wharton stats professor Bob Stine, used the statistical program R.
Out of dissatisfaction with the very high [...]

Just submitted my final batch of grades for the Fall 08 semester and thought I’d celebrate with a long-overdue trip over to xkcd. What do I find, but this quip about Somerville, Massachusetts:
 
 
He obviously made these up, but SOOOO funny! In a snake-eating-its-tail outcome, see the Google Trends result for “I hate this website”, which spiked [...]