The Williamsburg Circle of International Arts and Letters

Carter Kaplan, who recently joined the Williamsburg Circle of International Arts and Letters, circulated the group’s first press release, which you can find here or quoted below. I mentioned these new connections previously on dynamicsubspace.net here. As Carter says on his website, good things should come of the collaboration between the Williamsburg Circle and International …

Tragedy in Zanesville, Ohio, Another Reason Why Exotic Animals Should Not Be Bought or Sold

Governor John Kasich: this is why people should not be allowed to own exotic, non-native animals. Terry Thompson, the owner of an animal park in Zanesville, Ohio, apparently released his collection of animals including 17 Bengal tigers before killing himself. The Zanesville Sheriff ordered his deputies to kill these innocent creatures rather than try to sedate …

Recommended Reading on the Debt Ceiling “Deal” Reached Today: Robert Reich’s Ransom Paid

  My friend and former advisor at Georgia Tech, Professor Carol Senf, linked to this article by Robert Reich titled “Ransom Paid.” If you want to find out more about why today’s debt ceiling “deal” isn’t so much of a deal as a ransom paid by the Democrats to the Republicans, you should check out what …

I Hit the New York Times Paywall for the First Time Today, Easy to Bypass

I occasionally look to the New York Times for my daily fix of news, but today was the first time since they installed a paywall that I ran up against it (see above). Luckily, there are ways to circumvent this. According to mashable.com readers: While testing out the paywall Monday afternoon, Mashable readers Dmitry Beniaminov …

Judge Rules Than an IP Address Does Not Necessarily Correlate to a Particular Individual

Slashdot linked to a District Court ruling that establishes that an IP address does not directly correlate with an individual. The judge applies good sense to the nature of modern networking technology that allows many people to share an IP address, especially wirelessly, and sometimes without the knowledge of an IP address’ “owner.” Find the …