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On October 9th Larry Lessig will finally get his chance before the Supreme Court, as he argues Eldred v. Ashcroft. In light of the present geo-political situation you might be forgiven for not taking the issue of copyright term extension very seriously. But assuming we don't blow ourselves up, or wind up in a global police state, this issue will be very important. Wired has some good coverage. Business Week has a nice summary as well. The future is being decided (too bad this Supreme Court is doing it.)
Unbelievable optical illusion (via kottke.)
My stomach was giving me some problems this week, so I decided to cut out my copious coffee intake. Three days without java. Surprisingly easy.
Last chance to stop the war in Iraq?
Simple fix to increase TiBook airport range. Too good to be true?
Here are some scans of the sidekick (t-mobile branded danger hiptop) brochure.
Just back from 24 hours on Fire Island. I'm liking that place more and more. Lots to catch up on now.
Update to 10.2.1 went without incident. Can't say I notice any astounding improvements. Update to iTunes 3.01 was not so smooth. Afterwards I couldn't connect to the internet (from the terminal, through Mozilla, through mail, etc...) Rebooting from the installer CD and running the disk utility to fix permissions solved the problem (again, like after the iCal incident.) Like a lot of other people I'll add my complaint about the required restart after installing iTunes. How could this be necessary?
Janet took me to see Ricky Jay at Second Stage Theatre in Times Square. He's a "sleight of hand artist" (don't call him a magician.) The show was good. I think if you could see him do just card tricks in a smaller setting he would be even more impressive. What he did of that was great, but I thought the larger, more prop bound tricks didn't work out as well. Still a very fun evening. You sure wouldn't want to gamble with this man.
In a minor coincidence MB and I had just rented Heist on DVD (w/ Gene Hackman.) So so movie, but it did feature Ricky Jay in a large supporting role. I didn't realize until he walked on stage, at which point he looked very familiar. Both Heist and the show I saw were produced by David Mamet who is evidentally a big fan of his.
Afterwards we went to Blue Fin, the strange tourist trap / high end restaurant right in Times Square. Really nice design. We stuck to the monster raw shellfish tower so I can't really comment on the food (the shellfish was good though.) Midtown is like a whole different world (d'uh.)