boobsville code   Nick Taylor has a heartfelt complaint about Google Print and copyright. Compare it to the heartfelt email Jason Kottke got from Meghann Marco, and then note which author is established and which is struggling.   comments (0)

  Can you trust Wikipedia? The Guardian has several experts review Wikipedia entries on subjects in their fields. It's too bad none of them seem to have delved into their entries' histories at all, but I suppose any iteration at all is fair game.   comments (1)

  Another Flickr hack (see also here) allows you to create and play sudoku puzzles with your photos. [via Crooked Timber]   comments (0)

  "Even if all the reports on violence and rapes had proven to be factually true, the stories circulating about them would still be 'pathological' and racist, since what motivated these stories were not facts, but racist prejudices, the satisfaction felt by those who would be able to say: 'You see, Blacks really are like that, violent barbarians under the thin layer of civilization!'"   comments (0)

  Venkat has an extended (but premilinary, he says) discussion of the legality of Google Print vis-a-vis established copyright law. I disagree that existing law need always be the starting point for this sort of discussion, though, and in this case it seems clear that Lessig's goal is not to try to work within existing law at all, but rather to reimagine it.   comments (0)

  Via LI, here's a very sensible (and informed) op-ed from a former police chief calling for legalization of everything -- heroin, meth, pot, etc. I'm still wondering what happened to this more modest (but still promising) proposal here in Chicago. Meanwhile, there's this.   comments (0)

  It looks like there's a possibility the president's suspension of Davis-Bacon (see also here) won't stand. Here's hoping.   comments (0)

  In light of stAllio!'s spam problems, a link to this informative post from Jean Veronis about splogs seems to be in order. At least the folks at Google are working to solve the problem. Also, apropos of my post yesterday on getting rid of copyright, note that many of these splogs make use of "real texts" that have been appropriated from other sources.   comments (0)