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Evaluating DRM

Wes Phillips Sep 13, 2006 First Published: Sep 13, 2006

Fred von Lohmann, senior intellectual property attorney at the Electronic">http://www.eff.org/">Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and our hero, sends along this link to the Center for Democracy and Technology's (CDT) thoughtful guidelines to how electronics product reviewers should evaluate digital rights management (DRM) issues.

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Irving Penn Platinum Prints

Wes Phillips Sep 12, 2006 First Published: Sep 12, 2006

Plep points us toward this gallery of Penn prints at the National Gallery. Amazing how much detail you get in this analog format—go ahead, enlarge 'em and see.

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Study Shows Studies Bad For Your Health

Wes Phillips Sep 12, 2006 First Published: Sep 12, 2006

Well, actually, it suggests that, by wearing a helmet when I cycle, I give motorists the feeling I'm invulnerable.

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Physicists to World: Ooops!

Wes Phillips Sep 12, 2006 First Published: Sep 12, 2006

Perhaps not, but PhysOrg.com reports that two Italian physicists have written a paper suggesting that the concepts of dark energy and dark matter might be the result of "improper" gravitational theory.

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Why I No Longer Go to the Nude Beach

Wes Phillips Sep 11, 2006 First Published: Sep 11, 2006

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Mein Liebchen Liebling

Wes Phillips Sep 11, 2006 First Published: Sep 11, 2006

I was ruminating on the Dave Barry "On Hallowed Ground" essay, wondering if there was another example of great war or crisis writing I could link to, when I thought about A. J. Liebling's WWII work for The New Yorker.

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On Hallowed Ground

Wes Phillips Sep 11, 2006 First Published: Sep 11, 2006

Yes, it's the fifth anniversary of 9/11 and the media coverage is relentless. However, despite all the hoopla, the solemnity of the day can still sneak up on you—it happened to Jeff Wong and me this morning as we completed out daily bike ride and came upon a memorial service for firemen and policemen from our neighborhood who died that day.

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