Archive for July, 2005
Monday, July 25th, 2005
EFF Blog-a-Thon/When I First Became a Privacy Advocate
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is doing a very cool project called the Blog-a-Thon, where everyone is invited to blog about the first time they did something to stand up for their digital rights.
Mine would have to be the summer of 1993, just before I started law school. I’d already been a avid Internet user for […]
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Monday, July 25th, 2005
Running with Scissors
Augusten Burroughs’ memoir of growing up in Northampton, Running with Scissors, is both horrifying and facinating. It is also very well written, and if you can handle the very high creepy factor, well worth reading. He gets compared to David Sedaris all the time, but I think Augusten Burroughs is more like the love child […]
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Monday, July 25th, 2005
The Funny Thing Is…
Coming home from Anna’s wedding in New York this weekend, I was stuck in the airport for a long time. Between the delay and the flight, it was clear I didn’t have enough reading material. So I was forced to go shopping in the Newark Airport terminal B books & news store.
I made a […]
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Wednesday, July 20th, 2005
Confessions of a Recovering Slut
Hollis Gillespie is a hilarious writer.
Her tone is conversational, wry, and Southern in a way I can’t quite define. She reminds me of David Sedaris and of Florence King, especially in King’s Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady. She also reminds me of Susan Gilman.
I love that Gillman refers to her fetus […]
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Wednesday, July 20th, 2005
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - INCLUDES SPOILERS
I have a new favorite Harry Potter book.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock this week, you’ve probably heard that this book is "darker" than the earlier books, and that the fun details of the earlier books, like Quidditch, and the characters Hagrid the half-giant and Nearly-Headless-Nick, are reduced to almost walk-on roles in […]
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Monday, July 18th, 2005
Did I Suddenly Quit Reading?
No. I re-read a few books, and of course, the new Harry Potter. Reviews will come.
I’ve hardly posted anything in the last week for two reasons. First, I’ve been queasy and icky feeling most of the time, which has me seriously uninterested in focusing on anything.
And second, I was in class all weekend. Which […]
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Wednesday, July 13th, 2005
“50 smart guys….”
Thanks, Sean, for linking to the Wired article in your comment about the Anti-Spyware Coalition.
Towards the end of the article, there’s a quotation from Ben Edelman that has gotten under my skin. What he said was, "You don’t need a committee of 50 smart guys in D.C. sipping ice tea in order to decide […]
