GangRule - the history of organized crime in New York City. A growing database of photos, biographies, newspaper clippings and family trees from 1890 on. [MetaFilter]
From the monthly archives:
June 2003
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Google calls in the ‘language police’: “Google is now a verb, meaning to search. It sounds like the ultimate compliment to the company, so why do its lawyers want to keep the word out of our dictionaries?” [BBC.com, via MetaFilter]
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Library: An Unquiet History, by Matthew Battles. [publisher's synopsis and excerpt; Newsday review; Amazon link]
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High court OK’s Internet filters for public libraries. The decision adds latitude for shielding kids from porn, but curbs free speech. [Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories]
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Hatch Site Hides X-Rated Link. Earlier this week, Utah’s Sen. Orrin Hatch was caught using unlicensed software on his website. While his staff scrambled to fix that problem, Web surfers discovered his site had a link to a pornographic website. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]
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According to an AP report, reposted on Salon, Sen. Orrin Hatch ”favors developing new technology to remotely destroy the computers of people who illegally download music from the Internet.”
Full story on Salon
The poets are losing.
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John Palfrey is blogging from the Internet Law 2003 Conference, at Harvard Law School. The title quote comes from a discussion of John Perry Barlow’s Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace. As Palfrey explains:
One of the lawyers in the class says “it’s dated.” Why, we ask? “The poets are losing,” he says.
The poets are losing. I wonder just how “independent” cyberspace truly is.
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Photography from the NYC underground. Hugs to Annatart for the link.
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