If you read this blog regularly, you will know that I am picky. Given the plethora of websites, resources, search engines and ‘time-saving’ tools out there, why not be?  Since I have been politely asked by the folks at AltSearchEngines to give a list of favoured search engines, I am happy to do...

I am very much looking forward to Professor Sunder's book.  I agree that it's high time to think more systematically about crafting intellectual property law in a manner that takes account of other values.  That is true not only for domestic law, but also at the international level.  The TRIPS Ag...

Brian McBride took some time out from the Fire's pre-season camp in Los Angeles to answer readers' questions. Here are his responses: What exactly did Daniele De Rossi say to you after he received a red card for an elbow on you in World Cup 2006? Thank you so much for bring...

As promised, Laurie King is guest blogging here today on a topic and period that for a while now has been of endless fascination to me.  I'm a relatively new convert to the Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes mysteries, but trust me, it only takes one book to become addicted.  S...

The Importance of the Non-Techie or How I Learned to Stop Pulling Out My Hair and Love my Luddite by: Mick Jacobsen My wife mocks Twitter thoroughly, “You don’t even know these people,” she repeats. She thinks Facebook/MySpace is weird. She considers online gaming to be silly.  Sh...

    I remember the day my daughter first saw the image of Elizabeth Tudor garbed in a breastplate facing down the Spanish Armada.  Kate was fourteen then, and when she read the stirring 'heart and stomach of a king' speech, Kate demanded to know why ...

The following guest post is from Outright.com. It’s tax time, which means almost 21 million self-employed people are preparing to fill out their tax returns, including Schedule C: Profit or Loss from Business. Should be pretty easy - just enter how much money came in and went out of your busin...

Madhavi Sunder’s initial essay travels a wide landscape. The nature of the blog medium, of course, means she has time enough only for a few stops on the journey, but they are suggestive of the richness and intricacy of the overall landscape – the contemporary terrain of intellectual property (IP...

This is a guest blog by Barbara Grothus, an artist and activist who lives in Albuquerque. As a worker in the private sector, I was rarely offered an opportunity to receive health insurance. I was young, I didn’t need it. I paid for my annual exams and was never sick. One year I witnessed the death...

By Representative Nick Kahl (D-Rockwood). In Jeffrey Jeremy Wright’s post, “Why progressives should support the MLS to PDX proposal,� he supposed that to challenge the use of urban renewal dollars in this instance is to challenge the validity of urban renewal itself. Well, I am offering a chal...