May 7, 2008

Professor sues students, Microsoft rapes its customers

A Dartmouth professor plans to sue her former students for anti-intellectualism:

“She maintains that some of her students were so unreceptive of "French narrative theory" that it amounted to a hostile working environment.”

Mark Pilgrim wrote an excellent piece on Microsoft's MSN Music debacle, and by extension, DRM.

Finally, check out this video, sent along by my brother:

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March 11, 2008

Rate My Cop

A creator of Rate My Cop says, “Our website's purpose is to break the stereotype that people have that cops are all bad by having officers become responsible for their actions.”

Meanwhile, the vice president of the San Francisco Police Officers Association struggles with the notion of freedom of information and the First Amendment.

The site's database was compiled from public records and does not include personal information.

Update: The site was censored by GoDaddy.

Also, listen to this recording that plays two Linkin Park songs at once, demonstrating that all Linkin Park songs sound exactly the same. Use the volume control interface on your computer to turn on and off the left or right channel, to compare one song to the “other”.

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January 18, 2008

Church discipline at Allen Baptist

This summer I read an account in the Hillsdale Daily News of a senior citizen arrested for trespassing during a church service in Allen, Mich.

Today another article in my feeds got my attention: “Banned From Church”. Having forgotten about this summer's incident, it wasn't until a few paragraphs in that I realized the Wall Street Journal was leading its feature with the same saga of Karolyn Caskey, the 71-year-old dissident arrested this June (and again in July) during services at Allen Baptist Church.

The charge was trespassing, but Mrs. Caskey's real offense, in her pastor's view, was spiritual. Several months earlier, when she had questioned his authority, he'd charged her with spreading “a spirit of cancer and discord” and expelled her from the congregation. “I've been shunned,” she says.

Local novelty aside, the Journal article is worth a read.

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