Wednesday November 26, 2008 Link Roundup for November 22-26
Like London buses, you go for ages without seeing a story you want to link and then a load come along at once.
- Lifestreaming in Obamaland
Dan Farber notes how Obama's team is taking the initiative on even the trivia in the reportage, so that they are the ones framing events. - me@charlie rose (Lessig Blog)
Excellent Lessig interview, well worth the 40 minutes to watch it all and understand where Lessig is heading next. The Obama discussion at the beginning is fascinating. - Neil Gaiman On The ‘Obscenity’ Of Manga Collector Christopher Handley’s Trial
Come on, America, owning "Sandman" comics and their ilk is not a crime and it's unjust to use a paranoia-law to make it so. This is just the sort of consequence we're repeatedly told "can't happen" as a result of rushed-through paranoia laws and just the sort of injustice that keeps being perpetrated regardless. - Smut pop-up teacher case finally resolved with misdemeanor plea
"Resolved" in the sense that the injustice has been reduced. She still loses her livelihood and gets a conviction by witch-hunters using an Ill-judged paranoia-law. - New laws against forced marriages
Hard to believe this law has only been created in 2008. - Man found guilty of Hannah murder
The relief to finally have a verdict is so strong that I weep, hopeful this is now over. This local girl, part of my own children's and church's extended circle, should be rich in life, like so many her age around me. I wonder whether her killer is capable of grief or sorrow? His televised confession says otherwise. I wept, again. - Bad bosses may damage your heart
Yup. BTDTGTTS (or rather the candesartan) - 3hive: Blind Pilot
I like this group. - Open document protocol
This is an important and useful document that the southern nations have created for everyone to use. It allows any company, government agency, institution or other entity to declare they intend to use open formats, creating a positive indication within an ecosystem that it's feasible to switch because your trading partners are ready to do so too. - Welcome to FOSS.IN 2008 : Sun @ FOSS.IN 2008
And this is despite everyone being told by the organisers that they didn't want outsiders involved this year. We have such a big investment in open source in India that the Sun India team has done all this alone. - JavaOne 2009 Call For Papers
The CfP is now open, until mid-December. Looks like it's much more focussed on specifics this year - I would be interested to hear from open source community members whether their submissions are accepted, let me know. - The massive, monolithic JDK
I remember sitting with the other JTC founders at IBM Hursley in 1995 as we considered the lack of versioning and modularity in the JDK and the problems that would cause. We decided Java was still brilliant even without it (phew) but it's good to see it's going to be addressed at last. - What Sun Should Do
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