U.S National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Witheld Data on Driving and Cell Phone Use -- The supposed rationale seems much more bizarre now than it may have done under the Bush administration. [NYT]
Microsoft Embraces Open Source ?!? -- Less than meets the eye. But still. [The Register]
Lars Ulrich: "Being right about Napster doesn't mean that much to me. I don't find any particular glory in being proved right about it" -- Sure. That explains why you spent so much time, money and effort on killing it. [The Register]
Economic Value of the Space Program: "From 1962 to 1972, when the last Apollo mission landed on the moon, space-related activities got 59% of [U.S.] nondefense government R&D spending." [OBM, via Marginal Revolution]
The use/mention distinction at work: Judge Finds for Google In British Libel Case [NYT]
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- Will Buschert
- teaches in the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Political Studies at the University of Saskatchewan. He's currently researching the special challenges posed to democratic decision making by technological risks.
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