It's officially March, which means my basketball obsession kicks into high gear. As if you hadn't noticed from the last week or so of posts...
Anyway, it's clear from the lack of comments that my basketball obsession is not that widely shared, so here are some links to amuse the rest of you while I go hoops-wacky:
- The March Physics World is out, featuring a very nice article on commerical quantum cryptography, and a blog profile of Tommaso Dorigo.
- Speaking of quantum stuff, Scott Aaronson explains Shor's algorithm, with not a single state vector to be seen.
- If you've been saying to yourself "You know, what the world needs is more weblogs featuring highly technical discussions of particle theory," then Resonaances is a dream come true.
- In the "There's a carnival for everything" file: the carnival of post-docs, Oscar style.
- If you'd like some rabble-rousing politics, Gizmodo is calling for a boycott of the RIAA. If you think it will help, by all means, boycott the RIAA.
- The Boring Store, profiled in great detail. With pictures.
- Finally, Overheard in New York explains the whole Pluto thing. I wish.
There. That ought to hold you for a while.
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Because, unlike what happens with copyright violation, students at Kansas University would at least be given due process and the right to a trial in which they could defend themselves if accused of murder.
More delicious irony concerning the bottom feeders at the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the copyright thugs whose frivolous lawsuits extort money from innocent teens, grandmas and those in between.
Whenever we talk here about immunity from lawsuits for Big Pharma I hear a lot about so-called frivolous lawsuits. Those aren't the lawsuits that are clogging our court system since only about 10% of lawsuits are tort actions.
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