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RIAA copyright education contradictory, critics say | CNET News.com
This CNetNews article (received via Stephen Downes) points out some of the lies told by Recording Industry advocates. By extending their campaign against “piracy” to become itself a theft of existing public rights they lose any moral authority that their case may have had in the first [...]

Michael Geist - 30 Days of DRM

Gratitude may not be quite the word, but this a TPM Online Article by Ronald Aronson does identify a feeling that it may be worthwhile to acknowledge and foster. I too, often find comfort in having a sense of adaptation to the environment (to the extent that it feels as if the environment was designed [...]

Blood on the tracks - The Boston Globe

The Terrorists Among Us by Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal Summer 2006
In what is primarily a review of John Updike’s new book Dalrymple points out that often “The refusal of free inquiry derives from an awareness of the fragility of the basis of religious faith; and since certainty is psychologically preferable to truth, the former often [...]

On Beauty
at Philosophy Talk: The Blog

Wes Fryer has posted a response to a request I made for more insight into why intelligent people adopt specific religious faiths.

Differences between the sexes | The mismeasure of woman | Economist.com seems to be a reasonably balanced summary

At the PhilosophyTalk blog, Ken Taylor follows up on a radio discussion of The Future of Philosophy

Scott Leslie comments in his EdTechPost on the Blackboard Patent and Prior Art.
I find the patenting of obvious and/or commonplace techniques and concepts to be grossly offensive and believe that I will now find it necessary to avoid any further use of WebCT and switch to open alternatives like Moodle - and to urge all [...]

AlterNet: Evidence of Election Fraud Grows in Mexico