Author Archive
250 years of Pittsburgh innovation
I’m originally from Pittsburgh, a town whose greatness goes beyond the Steelers, great pizza, and the world-famous Primanti’s sandwich. Here’s a great video of a quarter-millennium of Pittsburgh innovation, from the Heinz History Center:
Final exams and cat naps
Finals are coming fast, but still make sure to take care of yourself. This cat does.
Tweets for week ending 11/15/2008
“Is There a Privacy Risk in Google Flu Trends,” http://tinyurl.com/6h5tm4 #
“Obama to Address the Nation Each Week on YouTube,” http://tinyurl.com/65u66m #
“Online Age Verification for Children Brings Privacy Worries,” http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/business/16ping.html #
Can a President Obama “Say Goodbye to BlackBerry? Yes He Can, Maybe,” http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/us/politics/16blackberry.html #
“Israeli Candidate Borrows a (Web) Page From Obama,” http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/15/world/middleeast/15bibi.html #
The real digital garbage: e-waste
60 Minutes ran a segment this evening on the real digital garbage: e-waste, namely, CRTs, computers, cell phones, and other digital junk thrown away by Americans who think they’re recycling, but which sometimes end up in illegal dumps in places like Hong Kong:
60 Minutes is going to take you to one of the most toxic [...]
New River Gorge
Enough tech. Nature calls, as they say. Here’s a shot from the observation deck at New River Gorge, August 2008. An absolutely beautiful place with an ancient river (think pre-dinasours). The background was desaturated to emphasize the tree in the front.
Google Book Search settlement
Here’s an excerpt from today’s press release:
The Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers (AAP), and Google today announced a groundbreaking settlement agreement on behalf of a broad class of authors and publishers worldwide that would expand online access to millions of in-copyright books and other written materials in the U.S. from [...]
Wii cool invention and video!
Today’s Times has an article on Johnny Chung Lee, who came up with a way to use a Nintendo Wii remote with a video display to give a more interactive experience. When you move around the room, the view on the screen changes. This is unbelievably cool and I hope it’s used in video games [...]
New York Times and 148-year copyrights
In conjunction with its endorsement of Senator Obama for President, today’s New York Times website has a great graphic illustrating its endorsements since 1860, alongside the winners for each year. For example, in 1888, the Times endorsed Grover Cleveland, who was defeated by Benjamin Harrison. Four years later, the Times again endorsed Cleveland, who won. [...]
Mersenne primes and the bailout bill
Here’s an interesting number: $11,315,000,000,000. That’s the new limit on public debt proposed by today’s draft of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. That’s a pretty big number, slightly over (slightly?) 11 trillion dollars.
Here’s another one: 243,112,609-1. The Guardian reports that researchers have found the largest-yet Mersenne prime, a number with nearly 13 million [...]
Sites and course pages
For new STU students, welcome to law school!
My home page is at http://nathenson.org.
This site, digital garbage, is my academic blog on law and technology.
I also run a personal blog at http://nathenson.org/blog.
Course pages are available to STU students through Blackboard at http://webcourses.lexisnexis.com. You’ll need to get your Lexis ID from the law library.
UPDATE: Lexis is [...]
