Techdirt: What Does It Mean For The Christian Science Monitor To Go Web Only? Early Tuesday, I saw the news that the venerable Christian Science Monitor newspaper was the first major mainstream daily...staff to dig deeper into various issues and provide a more complete summary reading for the week. Thus it will still need to do some printing and distribution, but at a vastly reduced rate and scale.

On the Google Book Search agreement (Lessig Blog) As many have, I've been eager to understand the terms of the settlement in the AAP/Authors Guild v. Google case (Google Summary, Actual Settlement)....use." But this agreement gives the public (and authors) more than what "fair use" would have permitted. That leaves "fair use" as it is, and gives the spread of knowledge more that it would have had.

Why I Support Barack Obama - O'Reilly Radar We are in unprecedented times. And folks, I'm sorry to say that the current financial meltdown is not the worst of it. Political instability around the world...case based on the broader issues, as has Colin Powell.) I outline four principal reasons: 1. Connected, Transparent Government 2. The Financial Crisis 3. Climate Change 4. Net Neutrality

HELLO BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE WHO LOVE D2 ♥ Anyways, I have a couple of fics I wanted to share with ya'll that I've written over the past year =) 1) Dangerous Secret for wolfe_tone at the fic exchange...say goodbye =( (PG) P.S. We all know how important voting is....so you should all go here and vote for D2 in gekidasa 's Amazing Tenirace. We can't let D2 lose. Seriously. I might just cry :

Простите. Но это — в топ. http://alan-christian.livejournal.com/278776.html

"Logic" 101

Тут ведущие финансовые аналитики удивляются и не могут понять как так - курс доллара растёт несмотря на всё усиливающийся кризис в штатах. А по-моему всё понятно: все запасаются впрок - боятся что у штатов закончится бумага и краска чтобы печатать доллары :)

Осторожно, под катом неприличность. Одно из названий - "подкрался кризис" меня жжутко порадовало ;)) А спёрта картинко у crazy_skipper  

Interesting article about Rwanda's female-majority parliament.