links for 2009-08-08

"she took on copyright, noting that it is a gov't granted monopoly that deserves antitrust scrutiny. She said, "Let's face it, copyright extension these days is 'limited' to the life of Mickey Mouse." And yes, there was sarcasm in her voice over the word "limited." The guy sitting next to me who works at Disney started shuffling uncomfortably.... Lofgren went on to say that copyright is being used to put up barriers to competition and innovation and is an issue that antitrust regulators really should be scrutinizing"

"There were so many violations that one could readily assert that they had no business walking through the door."

A bunch of good points. One of them: " I've already mentioned some of the overlap between Pete and Tyler. But those are only two of the beat writers. There are also Yankee beat writers from the NY Post, the NY Daily News, Newsday, the New Jersey Record, WFAN, MLB.com and perhaps some others as well. I follow a bunch of their blogs and Twitter accounts, and there's a tremendous amount of overlap. I am not saying to just dump them all and have a single beat writer. But at some point you do have to wonder about why it makes sense to have so many reporters effectively reporting the exact same thing."

At 80 years old he's not able to walk, read, write or speak, nor can he eat or drink on his own. Justice Ministry officials said doctors had told them that Mr. Biggs was unlikely to recover.

The Ebay listing has since been removed, but one has gone up in its place, offering a replica of the original signed 360 with the descriptors “This replica has been painstakingly recrafted using detailed photographs of the original signed Xbox 360 and imagery of Palin’s signature on the infamous “helicopter-wolf-hunting” bill from 2003.”

Why use TwitterSnooze...? It's a good tool to avoid a blast of tweets from a conference you are not attending... just snooze the conference goers for a few days. It's a nice way to get back at someone for saying something stupid... give them the silent treatment ;) It's a good way to ignore someone that just flooded your timeline for no good reason... but it was just a one-time offense and doesn't merit permanent unfollowing.