Global Issues

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Lessig on the DoJ's vindictive prosecution of Aaron Swartz - Boing Boing

Lessig on the DoJ's vindictive prosecution of Aaron Swartz - Boing Boing: "Aaron had literally done nothing in his life “to make money.” He was fortunate Reddit turned out as it did, but from his work building the RSS standard, to his work architecting Creative Commons, to his work liberating public records, to his work building a free public library, to his work supporting Change Congress/FixCongressFirst/"

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Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Power outages? Flooded highways? Who cares! Israelis love a rainy dayIsrael News - Haaretz Israeli News source.

Power outages? Flooded highways? Who cares! Israelis love a rainy dayIsrael News - Haaretz Israeli News source.: "Look how the Sea of Galilee is now full of water! Look how the waterfalls are now spilling so beautifully! Isn’t it wonderful? And if there’s snow - forget about it - the country loses it completely. There’s happiness when Mt. Hermon in the Golan Heights turns white, but on the rare occasions when there’s even a chance that snow might hit the hilltops in the center of the country like Jerusalem, it’s literally a national holiday"

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