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Fascinating and depressing parallels with the assault cases at Swarthmore, where the administration quietly "handled" things, out of similar motivation (protect the school's reputation) but with totally different frameworks (though still converging on blame-the-woman). I had no idea a school that passes on federal funding also passing on Clery and Title IX regulation. Seems like they should be explicit on what protections you're giving up in exchange for their perceived intellectual freedom. Dean Corbitt is a piece of work as described here; would be interesting to hear her side of the story. It makes me sad to see Christian ideals so wholly perverted here to protect criminals and harm their victims.

A brief history of Catan.

Awesome analysis of the best sci-fi movie in the last several years.

Makes sense to me!

Two good points here: that adults should be able to buy AO games, and that movies (in spite of the notoriously prudish MPAA) have a lot more leeway, probably because they're not interactive.

Not surprising that the inside view demonstrates how useless the program is (other than creating jobs). His novel might be interesting.

Forking Android is an illusion; too many of Google's services aren't open and forkable.

Sad but not surprising that she gets a huge amount of prejudice. I'm sure it's s lot worse than what a ciswoman would encounter.

Reminds me of the piece on NCAA "student athletes" and how much money is made off of them.

A variant of the Pale Blue Dot.

Some solid scientific responses.

Interesting how "second-generation internet language plays with grammar instead of spelling". My days of mock-embracing l33t with the SCCS are in the distant past now, I suppose.

Sad but true for the gamer crowd; I like the turn of the century vibe.

Depressing how easy it is for industry to discredit the science and avoid regulation. Not to mention the racist undertones.

I think his analysis has it about right. Microsoft's future is precarious, and didn't have to be; Ballmer was stuck in the past.

"The new Steve Jobs scoffs at the naïve idealism of Web partisans who believe the new medium will turn every person into a publisher. The heart of the Web, he said, will be commerce, and the heart of commerce will be corporate America serving custom products to individual consumers." "There will be a web dial tone everywhere." Amusing what he got right and what he got wrong, just 20 years ago. The web does seem more about money than freedom these days.

Not far off, although I think the movie was less ridiculous than this makes it look.

And these douchenozzles probably will pay more of a penalty for their past drug infractions than this spill disaster.

Good discussion of Arthur's strategy.

More amusing than it should be. I guess I'll be watching a lot of these with Theo soon enough...

On the one hand, I'm glad people are experimenting with new ways of doing business. On the other hand, writing emails about how you're ignoring laws you know about on purpose, pretty stupid.

I hope those undergrads building the sensor are getting paid reasonably well.

I had never heard this story, though I do remember all the monitoring for foam chunks.

I doubt the writers paid that close of attention.

What's striking to me is how many of these are among my favorite movies, and how many of them are classics. (That said, not crazy about Temple of Doom. And Cocoon, Innerspace, Death Becomes Her, Babe, What Dreams May Come don't really have much staying power, though I enjoyed most of them.)

Yup, coffee is kinda like that.

Interesting details (like the Os instead of 0s in the title); I especially like the phrase "Chekhov's Typography".

I haven't had reason to use this flow yet, but I should.

I'm probably going to have to stop watching the game unless they make some major changes.

Some great thoughts on the shape of his second term. But really New Yorker, "propinquity"?