A friend and I have a party game: take the countries that contribute troops to UN peacekeeping forces and argue about which Marvel superhero characters they are. This probably speaks more to the kinds of parties we throw, but below are some of the most consistent results: USA: Iron Man Canada: Captain America Russia: Black […]
Continue reading →I’m taking a break from my vacation in the stunning mountains of Montana to talk to a class at Carnegie Mellon being taught by my awesome major advisor, Jay Aronson. I’ll be updating this post with references to the links I bring up in the conversation, so class participants and refer back to it. Any […]
Continue reading →A basic component of copyright is that it only applies to creations in a fixed medium. After revelations of cell-phone and webcam blanket surveillance, in addition to city-pervasive security camera usage, is any creation truly intangible? Quick definition from the U.S. copyright office: “Copyright is a form of protection grounded in the U.S. Constitution and granted […]
Continue reading →Here’s it in action: If you click on the video you can find all of my code. This was a fun Saturday afternoon project! Inspirational Quote: “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. “—C.S.Lewis
Continue reading →I have been listening to all of Sherlock Holmes read aloud* this week. For the entirety of A Study in Scarlet, he looked like Benedict Cumberbatch in my head. (Source) For all of The Sign of the Four: (Source) Benedict Cumberbatch. But for the third book? The Hound of the Baskervilles? In my mind’s eye, […]
Continue reading →I just returned from the midnight showing of Into Darkness, the newest in the Star Trek reboot, so if you don’t want spoilers, don’t read on.
Continue reading →If you haven’t listened to oral arguments in the Prop 8 or DOMA Supreme Court cases, you must. The issue of standing is important, particularly to Californians but to anyone from any state which doesn’t enforce all of its laws. They are also wonderfully funny in places. They are also profoundly clear sighted: It’s worth […]
Continue reading →I spent this summer posting an intellectual property law syllabus on the H2O Project’s website, which was incredibly informative if a little dry (you can see what I did if you sign in as an Anonymous user, or you can request an account). But the joy of my summer was researching, designing, and building a […]
Continue reading →If you haven’t hung out on McSweeny’s you are missing a wonderful, occasionally surreal, experience. Recently a superhero of my acquaintance posted this piece of Sound of Music fanfiction from that site, titled “I Regret To Inform You That My Wedding To Captain Von Trapp Has Been Canceled.” If this is your sort of thing, you may also like this […]
Continue reading →If you’ve spent more than a day in my company in the past 9 months, you know I’ve become attached to a particular television show. Go on. Judge me all you want: My experience of fandom tends to center around fanfiction–I wrote my thesis on it, so that makes sense. I like gifs (see: above), […]
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