Lynne Kiesling I found some things striking in yesterday’s SOPA/PIPA protests. One was Jim Harper’s clear and cogent statement that the Internet is not a thing, it’s a set of protocols stipulating how computers communicate with each other. That set of protocols is a platform, and those protocols are not the government’s to regulate. Jim’s …
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Lynne Kiesling For the past couple of years, I’ve commemorated Martin Luther King day by rereading his Notes From A Birmingham Jail, which I recommend to you as an eloquent articulation of, among other things, the values of liberty and of equality before the law. It’s interesting to reread it this year,as our awareness of …
Lynne Kiesling I offer you my best holiday wishes. What I wish for you, indeed for all of us, in this holiday season and into 2012 and beyond, is a life rich in liberty, toleration, peace, and good will. And, in the spirit of my friend Sarah’s wise invocation for us to light our candles …
Lynne Kiesling As a quick follow-up on my earlier post on music, harmony, and social cooperation, here’s a lovely video of Stile Antico singing Palestrina’s Assumpta est Maria: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjsitAd5Tlc] And, since we attended the Chicago Symphony’s Welcome Yule concert last night and it was lovely, here’s a snippet of Handel’s Messiah, from the choir of …
Lynne Kiesling I am a big fan of English renaissance choral music, particularly sacred polyphony from Tallis and Byrd (and stretching back to Taverner, but he’s not as distinctively polyphonic). One of the best ensembles performing such music is Stile Antico, a group of 13 British singers who do an outstanding job with this music, …
Lynne Kiesling An excellent holiday present for us all, from my friend Sarah: a free-market take on the classic Grinch tale. A taste of its poetic deliciousness to entice you to click through and read the whole poem: Then he walked right inside. Didn’t ring, didn’t knock. (Property rights are respected by folks who read …
Lynne Kiesling As is the vernacular these days, your response to the title of this post is probably “I know, right?” Or, if you prefer sarcasm, you may say “no, really?” This is the conclusion of an all-too-rare piece of investigative journalism from Dan Garino at the Columbus Dispatch: Ohio’s unique system for setting electricity …
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Lynne Kiesling Happy holidays! If you are traveling by air this week to share the holidays with family, you have my sympathy … on the TSA front, not on the family front (but some of you may be dreading that too …). Whether you are subjecting yourself to the TSA’s invasiveness this holiday season or …
Lynne Kiesling When I read Gina Kolata’s New York Times article on the inaccuracy of GPS watches, I was not impressed with her journalism and her analysis. Her main theme was that we spend all of this money on GPS watches to record our training, and they aren’t even accurate. Her example: On Sunday, I …
Lynne Kiesling Pale Rider is one of my favorite Clint Eastwood movies. One of its central themes revolves around classic property rights concepts in a community of miners that includes a number of small pan miners and a family that has built a larger, hydraulic mining operation that essentially uses pressurized water to blast rock …
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