Having watched the entirety of The West Wing on DVD, it was pretty surreal to walk around the actual White House.
“This is one of those rare cases where the laissez-faire approach is incorrect. Policies to encourage the adoption of these technologies are justified, even within free-market orthodoxy.” —
Obama’s Billions Could Render Furnaces Obsolete: Kevin Hassett - Bloomberg.com
You must be on the right track when even a policy analyst from the American Enterprise Institute, a fairly conservative think tank that maintains a strict free-market mindset, encourages government intervention in order to stimulate a green building movement.
I live in a van down by Duke University - Salon.com -
How do I afford grad school without going into debt? A ‘94 Econoline, bulk food and creative civil disobedience…
I applaud this student. And I probably used to park a Volvo station wagon where he’s got his Econoline van.
This whole thing reminds me of the time my great uncle was very confused by Krzyzewskiville and thought there was a dorm room shortage on campus. We had to explain to him that people camp out for basketball games and K-Ville isn’t a refugee city.
“There’s a growing concern now about robot ethics, but what’s missing from those discussions is pragmatic lawyers thinking about what’s going to happen in the future.” —
Robots of future may need a good lawyer— San Francisco Chronicle
This article discusses some fascinating issues in the inevitable field of robo-litigation, though the title mistakenly suggests that robots need to lawyer-up as opposed to the humans interacting with them. I think the former would be a lot more interesting than the latter, so maybe I should hang a robo-shingle.
Who is Rosie the Robot Maid from the Jetsons going to call when she has questions about employment law? Where will WALL-E go for environmental law advice about brownfields? Who will defend Johnny 5 in front of a military tribunal for going AWOL?
I can see my commercial now:
Are you a robot that’s been hurt on the job? Are Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics preventing you from getting what you deserve? Call Mark Pike, Robottorney-at-Law to help you with your robo-law needs. *Bleep bloop bleep*
Trust me, robots, you need a lawyer. The President has his eye on you.
Somebody stole my bike. It used to be here.
“The district attorney subpoenaed Facebook to verify that the words had been typed from a computer at an apartment at 71 West 118th Street in Manhattan, the home of Mr. Bradford’s father. When that was confirmed, the charges were dropped.” —
With Facebook as Alibi, Brooklyn Robbery Charge Is Dropped (NYTimes.com)
Things got a lot more interesting ever since Congress expanded the acceptance of electronic evidence in 2006. This type of info can work for prosecutors and defense attorneys, but I imagine things are going to get more complicated when geo-tagging, etc. has electronic devices speaking for us.
Also, this is perhaps the best alibi since that guy was cleared of murder charges because he was in the background of a “Curb Your Enthusiasm” episode.
The Supreme Court takes up the question of whether life sentences for juvenile offenders are cruel and unusual.
Here’s a piece I wrote for The American Prospect after sleeping by the steps of the Supreme Court yesterday so that I could attend oral arguments for two big cases.
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I used WordPress for 5 years and I really want to import old posts into my Tumblr account so that they can co-exist as one. Solutions exist, but they are huge headaches and litter the Dashboard with several hundred posts.
I love Tumblr for its ease of use as a platform, but data portability is really important. Users own their content, and should have complete control.
So, how would you export WordPress to Tumblr?
UPDATE:
I appreciate Marco’s response, and understand this is not part of Tumblr’s mission. But, I feel like I have a responsibility not to leave stray accounts elsewhere on the Internet. I want my stuff organized. I don’t want to feel like an astronaut leaving space junk.
The best solution I’ve found, and what I’m currently working with, is Tumblrize. An update was just released today (possibly due to my input?!) so that old posts retain their metadata for dates, so they slide into your Tumblr archives correctly (they still annoyingly show up as recent posts in the Dashboard).
I took a stroll around the National Mall today and saw teams dismantling their entries from this year’s competition. It always amazes me how quickly these homes are built and torn down, transforming the Mall from a futuristic neighborhood back to the Capitol’s front yard.