{"id":721,"date":"2004-03-24T13:57:17","date_gmt":"2004-03-24T21:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/03\/24\/links-links-linkity-link-linkie\/"},"modified":"2004-03-24T13:57:17","modified_gmt":"2004-03-24T21:57:17","slug":"links-links-linkity-link-linkie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=721","title":{"rendered":"Links links linkity link linkie"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.juliansanchez.com\/2004_03_01_notesarch.html#107971617379289518\">Julian<\/a> on the difference between <i>slippery slopes <\/i>and <i>reductio ad absurdum.<\/i>\n<li>Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juliansanchez.com\/2004_03_01_notesarch.html#107997721052199870\">Julian defends Noam Chomsky<\/a>. Okay, not really. Or, he defends Chomsky from one particular attack while maintaining a face-saving disdain for Chomsky in general. Whew!\n<li>Speaking of Chomsky, this <a href=\"http:\/\/rittenhouse.blogspot.com\/2002_10_13_rittenhouse_archive.html#85573314\">letter by Donald Johnson <\/a>pretty much expresses my own views of Chomsky (so I don&#8217;t have to do it myself).\n<li>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juliansanchez.com\/2004_03_01_notesarch.html#107971236635277666\">via Julian<\/a>, check out Judge Richard Posner&#8217;s opinion in the McFarlane\/Gaiman lawsuit (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca7.uscourts.gov\/op3.fwx?submit1=showop&#038;caseno=03-1331.PDF\">pdf link<\/a>). Gaiman won (pending further appeals?), which is the outcome I would have hoped for. The decision is entertaining not only for Posner&#8217;s discussion of the copyright issues involved with superhero characters, but also for his surprising detailed explanation of Spawn&#8217;s origins.\n<p>One thing I found intriguing was a reference to a 1954 lawsuit involving Sam Spade: &#8220;Hammett was not claiming copyright in Sam Spade\u2014on the contrary, he wanted to reuse his own character but to be able to do so he had to overcome Warner Brothers\u2019 claim to own the copyright.&#8221;<\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hicksville.co.nz\/PerfectPlanet.htm\">THE PERFECT PLANET: Comics, Games, and World-Building<\/a>, by Dylan Horrocks, is the best thing I&#8217;ve read in ages. Everyone interested in &#8211; well, in comics, role-playing games or world-building &#8211; should read it. It deserves a blog entry of its own, but who knows when (if) I&#8217;ll get around to it, so I&#8217;m linking it now. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.longstoryshortpier.com\/vaults\/2004\/03\/23\/sketching\">Kip<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boilsandblindingtorment.com\/index.html\">Boils and Blinding Torment <\/a>is the meanest, most cynical, nastiest <i>Buffy <\/i>site I&#8217;ve read. It is of course my new favorite.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bodyandsoul.typepad.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/case_hints_at_s.html\">Body and Soul <\/a>on high class and low class Republicans.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.i-mockery.com\/minimocks\/bigbird\/default.asp\">I always hated Snuffelupagus<\/a>.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foolsnews.com\/weblog\/archives\/having_your_cake_andnot\">The Fool&#8217;s Blog documents <\/a>an interesting case of hypocripsy going from one Boy Scout lawsuit to another.\n<li>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/wondrousbeauty\/360874.html\">debate in Sharleen Mondal&#8217;s livejournal <\/a>&#8211; over a silent (or was it?) protest at a Daniel Pipes speech, and what counts as censorship &#8211; is quite entertaining. Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/wondrousbeauty\/363202.html\">this followup post<\/a>, as well.\n<li>Flea of One Good Thing is <a href=\"http:\/\/buggydoo.blogspot.com\/2004_03_01_buggydoo_archive.html#107983789805880285\">the best storyteller in the Blogoverse, bar none<\/a>. Sure wish she&#8217;d get off Blogspot, though &#8211; damn thing takes forever to load. Sometimes I think the biggest advantage of Movable Type is being able to link to single blog entries (rather than to somewhere on a loooong, slow-loading page of blog entries).\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lynnedjohnson.com\/diary\/000312.html\">A Day in the Life<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feministe.us\/blog\/archives\/000813.php\">Feministe<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.negroplease.com\/archives\/000542.html\">NegroPlease <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/dieselnation.blogs.com\/hiphop\/2004\/03\/hiphop_hates_wo.html\">Diesel Nation<\/a> discuss sexism and hip-hop.\n<li>A good briefing paper on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contemporaryfamilies.org\/public\/briefing.html\">&#8220;Marriage, Poverty, and Public Policy,&#8221;<\/a> by Stephanie Coontz and Nancy Folbre, lays out the arguments against using marriage as a government anti-poverty tool.\n<li>Meanwhile, last Friday in Sudan, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/africa\/3549325.stm\">over 100 women were raped <\/a>in an attack by militias. I don&#8217;t even know how to respond to events like this; sitting and screaming seems so inadequate, but I don&#8217;t have anything constructive or intelligent to say about it, frankly.\n<li>Here&#8217;s a bit of good news: The formation of a Democracy Caucus in the UN. Congrats to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.50minutehour.net\/archive\/2004_03_01_index.htm#108006535638173366\">The Fifty Minute Hour<\/a>, who had a hand in it.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/veecee.typepad.com\/math\/2004\/02\/how_many_mms.html\">Angela&#8217;s Math <\/a>on why you can fit more flat round shapes (like plain M&#038;Ms) than spheres (like peanut M&#038;Ms) into a jar.\n<li>Good Nicholas Kristof essay, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/03\/20\/opinion\/20KRIS.html?ex=1395118800&#038;en=1f61abb3d4b74bd2&#038;ei=5007&#038;partner=USERLAND\">&#8220;Terrors of Childbirth,&#8221; <\/a>describes several victims of lack of decent maternal care worldwide. Thank goodness we have the pro-life movement around to cause things like this.\n<li>A good Jane Bryant Quinn essay explains why <a href=\"http:\/\/msnbc.msn.com\/id\/4569822\/\">Social Security Isn&#8217;t Doomed<\/a> &#8211; in fact, it&#8217;s in pretty good shape, assuming none of its &#8220;rescuers&#8221; manage to kill it off. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nathannewman.org\/log\/archives\/001597.shtml\">Nathan Newman<\/a>.\n<li>I wish I could see this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/03\/18\/theater\/reviews\/18DREA.html?ex=1395032400&#038;en=ff9f5b37257422be&#038;ei=5007&#038;partner=USERLAND\">all-male production of Midsummer Night&#8217;s Dream<\/a>, which sounds quite neat. (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msmagazine.com\/blog\/recommended.asp?id=629\">MsMusings<\/a>).<\/ul>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"\/index.php?p=buying-cheap-cialis-oral-jelly-online\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julian on the difference between slippery slopes and reductio ad absurdum. Also, Julian defends Noam Chomsky. Okay, not really. Or, he defends Chomsky from one particular attack while maintaining a face-saving disdain for Chomsky in general. Whew! 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