I happened upon this article today: Two Stories for Children, by Fritz Spencer, and it just made me go "...WHAT?" It also infuriated me rather a lot; hence, this post.FN 1

( Lj-cut because this got loooong. Though hopefully not boring. )

I found some great photos from the Irish Discworld Con up here. (He's got a whole collection of Discworld Con photos if you're interested. :)

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Via a heads-up by sonnyliew:

Lawrence Lessig has an opinion piece in yesterday's New York Times. An interesting read, but unless I'm confused and he's referring to a more recent report and/or bill than the 2006 report and bill (not likely, since I know...someone...who is currently working on the next bill, ergo it's not out there yet), he's off-base again ( Read more... )