Thursday, May 16, 2002
Always play to your audience
Joey deVilla
It was then that I decided that there is only one song you play when trying to establish your bona fides with a U.S. customs official: The Star Spangled Banner.
'Commons' Sense for Copyrighted Material?
Brenda Sandburg
IP attorneys aren't sure whether many authors and artists will volunteer to make their copyrighted works freely available to the public. But they say Lawrence Lessig's new initiative may be a first step to making copyrighted material more accessible.
Review: Star Wars Episode II, Attack of the Clones
CmdrTaco
Lucas hasn't exactly redeemed himself this time around, but he has wiped out most of the worst of The Phantom Menace from my memory. Clones starts off slow, and it takes half the movie to really start get going. But the final hour finally feels like Star Wars again. Read on for my full review—I'll try not to do the lone gunman thing, but you've been warned.
Airport Face Scanner Failed
Julia Scheeres
Facial recognition technology tested at the Palm Beach International Airport had a dismal failure rate, according to preliminary results from a pilot program at the facility. The system failed to correctly identify airport employees 53 percent of the time, according to test data that was obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union under Florida's open records law.
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Hollywood versus Silicon Valley, Ignoring the Customers
Dan Gillmor
Articles like this are infuriating. They cast the debate in binary terms, industry versus industry, as if that's really the issue. It isn't. Guess who's missing from the story, and all too often from the debate?
Matrix Reloaded Trailer Online
Trying to steal away the thunder from the opening of Star Wars, the trailer for The Matrix Reloaded is online now in Quicktime format.
Download it here.
Dave Winer
Jake offers a glimpse of the new blogroll editor he's been working on. And a tease.
