Lex Spoon

I was disheartened today to read so many glowing reviews of Robert Winston's "Scientist's Manifesto" . I think of scienc...

Lance Fortnow laments that no matter how crotchety he gets he can't seem to give up LaTeX : LaTeX is a great system for mathematical do...

Paul Chiusano reminds us why we would conceivably want software patents: What I find irritating about all the software patent discussion i...

Zachary Schrag has a PDF up on recent efforts to update IRBs . Count me in as vehemently in favor of two of the proposals that are apparentl...

Tech Dirt has an analysis of the latest available version of PROTECT IP. Yesterday, we got our hands on a leaked copy of the "summary...

Brad Templeton describes a good way to explain the current distribution of nationalities in the tech field: I gave him one suggestion, ins...

Mitch Golden writes, in a good analysis of the legal state of LimeWire's file-sharing software, that inducing infringement was a key pa...