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's Archive for August, 2009

Legal Yiddish

No one knows more than I what a royal pain legal language can be. I have to read this stuff all the time. Sometimes in Hebrew. Ibuprofen is my friend. Yet sometimes, there is a glimmer of light, a spark of clarity in the dank fog of legal verbiage, thanks to judges who apparently do, [...]

Keep Portland Weird

In case anyone reading this blog was thinking of not coming to Portland, Oregon, for MCN 2009, here’s the reason that’s a bad idea: a lovely blog post about food and wine in Oregon on “The Italian Dish.” Note the particularly inspiring photo that accompanies the article:

Montrous Victory for Fair Use

For once, a victory for Fair Use. In Warren Publishing Co. v. Spurlock, the publisher of several popular movie monster magazines from the 1950s and ’60s claimed that its copyrights and trademarks were violated by a recently published book that chronicles the art of a man whose paintings appeared on more than 50 of its [...]

Italy to build solar-energy-producing statue of saint

That’s the rather catchy headline from the Telegraph. “The statue of Padre Pio… will be built on a hill in southern Italy.” Seems the saint will produce electricity via a coating of photovoltaic paint “which will enable it to trap the sun’s heat and produce solar energy.” Witty remarks about Italians and religion aside, the [...]

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