Friday procrastination: link love – dads, death, and Dawkins
What Rebecca has been reading.
The Telecommuter Tax Fairness Act:
Stopping New York’s Tax Attack on Telecommuters
By permitting individuals to work at home, telecommuting removes cars from the roads, thereby reducing traffic congestion, gas consumption, and automotive pollution. Telecommuting also opens job opportunities for those for whom a conventional, daily trip to the office is difficult or undesirable.
Crossed Wires Between the US and Pakistan
Shuja Nawaz explains the situation with Pakistan.
A Celebration of Making Old “Make” New
Ammon Shea looks at the word “make.”
Cyberspace – Podictionary Word of the Day
Our podictionary podcast of the week.
Sir Walter Scott and Scotland
From The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain and Ireland.
Tony Awards Quiz: Part Two
Answers
The answer’s to this morning’s quiz.
Germanic Hermaphrodites
Hermaphrodites are born rarely, and it is far from clear why their mythology achieved such prominence in Antiquity. Reference to cross-dressing during certain marriage rites does not go far, but the cult of Hermaphroditus is a fact, and Ovid’s tale of the union in one body of the son of Hermes and Aphrodite is well-known.
Tony Awards Quiz: Part Two
A Tony Award quiz…
Richard Dawkins: Podcast Week Two
The second in a series of podcasts from Richard Dawkins.
Supreme Court Decides That Patent “Exhaustion” Doctrine
Applies To Products That Include “Inventive Aspect” Of Patent
(Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG Electronics, Inc.)
Mark Simon Davies is a counsel at O’Melveny & Myers LLP, where he works on appellate matters in one of the top Supreme Court and Appellate practices in the country. Davies is the author of Patent Appeals: The Elements of Effective Advocacy in the Federal Circuit. Yesterday, the Supreme Court issued another significant opinion in […]
Help Me Write: Short Stories
What are the best American short stories?
The Effects of Video Game Violence
Psychologists Craig Anderson and Karen Dill talk about the effects of video game violence on children and adolescents.
Looks Like a Million To Me:
How I Realized that Amazon’s Kindle and Sony’s E-Reader Were Exceeding Sales Estimates
Evan Schnittman makes a bold prediction about e-readers.
Book Quotes
A few book quotes.
Friday procrastination: link love – Disney, discussion, and daily life
What Rebecca has been reading.