Video: Brief History of Weed
As a promo for their sitcom Weeds, Showtime created this concise history of cannabis.
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Limelight Moving Up The Stack, Acquires Kiptronic For Mobile Ad Delivery
This morning Limelight Networks announced it has acquired privately held Kiptronic to further Limelight’s expansion into the mobile video space. Over the past year, Limelight has been building out their mobile video offering, currently being used by MLB amongst others,…
Fight terrorism by arresting terrorists, not by looking at our genitals at airports
I like this Bruce Schneier quote from a CNN article on the TSA’s new whole body scanner, which lets TSA inspectors look at your genitals through your clothes:
Bruce Schneier, an internationally recognized security technologist, said whole-body imagi…
Lessig reviews Helprin’s embarrassing infinite copyright, bloggers-are-stupid, Creative Commons is evil book
Two years ago, fantasy novelist Mark Helprin published an op-ed in the New York Times arguing for perpetual copyright. The essay was so ham-fisted and odd that a lot of people assumed that it was a joke, but now that he’s published a book on the subjec…