Don't know who else picked this out of the blogsphere, but Harvard now has an official privacy policy and terms of use for blogging by students. Even more interesting, the _default_ is a Creative Commons license.
Story from Scripting News:
Some quick
snapshots from the convention this weekend, to give you guys who aren't gamers
some sense of what it's like. Click on a picture for an enlargement.
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Ok gang…I'm back, and exhausted after nearly 1000 miles on the road, 4 days in Columbus, and something like 20 hours of sleep over those 4 days. Lots of game playing, lots of seeing friends…I'll have pics up later for those of you that have no idea what a gaming convention looks like. đŸ™‚
But the blogging will resume.
Glad to be back.
Just a quick blog….just made it to Cincy, OH. 8 hours, 15 minutes door to door, with two quick pit stops. Not a bad drive, actually. Dinner tonight, then Columbus bound for Origins. Lots of pictures forthcoming from that, but no access after tomorrow…so it'll be up next week.
Have a great weeked, guys!
Betsy and I were having a discussion today about wierd names in our family. Mine just has a LOT of old fashioned, sort of “mountain” names. Here's a short list:
Van
Jorene
Thurman
Acey
Flo
Bernice (pronounced, for some reason, Ber-ness, no long e for the i)
Check (short for Chester)
Vida Lou (pronounced VYE-DA, not VEE-DA)
Not a lot of names that you'd find on birth certificates now. None of them appear in the top 1000 names from the last 12 years.
Round-up of Links About SCOTUS Decision to Censor Library Internet Access.
Not too much new to report about the SCOTUS censorship decision yet, but here are more links from around the web. Some librarians are reporting calls from companies selling filtering software already. Oy.
Look twice at that Yahoo News headline – it refers to the Court approving “anti-porn” filters in libraries. What they fail to mention is that there's a heck of a lot more content than just porn that is also being blocked.
I want to make sure that I note that this ruling currently applies only to those libraries that accept federal e-rate money for technology and telecommunications. Unfortunately, with the funding situation facing most libraries today, many don't have a choice. And as Andrew Mutch implied in his message, it's a good bet that Congress will try to apply this logic to ALL federal funding now, which means pretty much every library everywhere.
It will be interesting to see if this applies to wireless internet within a library, too. What a major step backwards that would be.
For those that might have missed it, big defeat in library land today. Have I mentioned that I'm really not happy with the political leanings of our government right now? I think this is a poor reading of the first amendment, as well as detrimental to libraries public trust. Hopefully something like SquidGuard or something much like it will become the defacto standard for library filtering, since it's free (as in beer and speech) and it allows you to control the filtering in a plain text file. No hidden commercial filters would be great, and since the CIPA isn't specific on WHAT libraries should filter in order to continue to recieve federal funding, perhaps they could just install something like squidguard, block…oh…goatse.cx (the perennial joke on Slashdot), and then leave access to the rest of the web alone. Would that satisfy CIPA?
Donnie Darko was one of the best films I've ever seen. Either that, or an acid trip from eating contaminated mushrooms. I'm not sure. Why don't you rent it or buy it and let me know what you think?
Tonight: Made paella for Jerry, Cheryl, Karen and Stephen. Played lots of Dead or Alive 3, 4 player tag team mode. Played lots of Fluxx. Had fun. Drank wine that Marianne had given us weeks ago. Had brownies, ice cream, and caramel.
This morning: finished Harry Potter: Order of the Pheonix. 870 pages inside 36 hours.
Last night:
7pm: see the Hulk (very good, Ang Lee does a fine job adapting a difficult story, and the special effects are much better than the previews)
9:30pm: Barnes and Noble to see the festivities concerning the midnight release of the 5th Harry Potter book, the Order of the Pheonix.
12:15am: out the door of B&N, on the way home.
12:30am: Home, bed, reading
3:00am: ~275 pages in, give in to sleep, wish I could read more.
