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"This is our attempt to survey the damage, assess the gains, and try to put the mp3's first full decade in perspective. Keep in mind that while the mp3 is a radically new technology, it's not a different musical medium: The mp3 is still "recorded music"-- that's not going to change until Apple unveils the iBrain-- but it's recorded music that moves around very differently than ever before. As a result, mp3s have opened up vast new musical horizons over the past 10 years-- how we discover it, the value we give to it, and how we see ourselves connected to other people through it-- that both depart from and build upon the innovations that came before it. Everything's still messy at the moment, but it's not going to be this way forever-- a few decades from now, we'll most likely find ourselves nostalgic for the mp3 decade."

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Absolutely spot-on.

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pollinks history justice torture

Yoo's corrupt opinions are a black mark on the history of American law. They are certain to take their place with the rulings generally considered to be the worst in U.S. history: Dred Scott v. Sandford (which found slavery constitutional), Plessy v. Ferguson (which upheld racial segregation and the "separate but equal" doctrine), Korematsu v. United States (which upheld the incarceration of 110,000 innocent Japanese-Americans during WWII) and Bush v. Gore (in which right-wing justices used an absurd equal-protection argument to hand the presidency to their favored candidate).

In the end, what condemns Yoo most is his arrogant and dismissive attitude toward the law itself -- its logic, its precedents, its purpose. For Yoo, the law is simply a tool to be used to hand power to an omnipotent executive branch, and we must trust in the good faith of that executive branch to use its extra-legal powers properly. This view is the antithesis of both jurisprudence and the American system of government. The law is the last majestic bulwark against the tyranny of men. But in the hands of debased functionaries like Yoo, that great bulwark was eroded.

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pollinks politics justice history

Fascinating attempt at creating a historical rating system and metrics for comparing players of different eras...

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chess history

When do you think this statement was made: "An unreasonable optimism and enthusiasm took hold of the public and led bankers to excessive courses of action; the federal reserve banks were unable to temper such an elan." For good measure, he then added: "The fall that followed the boom was that much more catastrophic."

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pollinks economics history

Amen: "Let's be honest: Thursday night Bush sounded like a kid reciting the high points of fourth grade, or a challenged patient graduating to a new level in some kind of mental health rehab institution. No one could watch that and not be shaken by it. I've had my political disagreements with my friend Chris Matthews, but he summed it up really well: It was an abomination, the depiction of a world of presidents in which "every kid gets a trophy who participates. [...] Except of course this isn't a grade school T-ball tournament, this is the self-assessment of the worst president in American history..."

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politics history

This could be very useful for some future projects: Omeka is a free and open source collections based web-based publishing platform for scholars, librarians, archivists, museum professionals, educators, and cultural enthusiasts. Its “five-minute setup” makes launching an online exhibition as easy as launching a blog. Omeka is designed with non-IT specialists in mind, allowing users to focus on content and interpretation rather than programming. It brings Web 2.0 technologies and approaches to academic and cultural websites to foster user interaction and participation.

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linklog software history archives culture

Some sad, funny, and ridiculous events in technology over the last year. Via @MLx

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Roger Ebert (!) on Ben Stein and Creationism .... Ebert continues to rise in my estimation, moving outside of film commentary. Well done! via @Braddo

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cosmolinks science history Roger Ebert Ben Stein

Nothing quite prepares you for the culture shock of Jay Walker's library. No kidding! Amazing...

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linklog geek tech museum library history

more on the history of education and grading...

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linklog education history grading

An interesting idea...

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linklog edtech history

Reassessing our view of Ancient Greece and Rome

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cosmolinks history

Very well done and reveals the wobbly inner workings of the political machine that some of us have been pointing to since the beginning.

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I'd really like to take this digital history class...

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Shorpy.com is the 100-year-old photography blog that brings our ancestors back, at least to the desktop. The site is named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a boy who worked in an Alabama coal mine near the turn of the century.

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cosmolinks history photography

A fully searchable online edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing accounts of over 100,000 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.

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