Waar conflicteren de vrijheid van meningsuiting en de vrijheid van godsdienst of andere grondrechten? Het ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken heeft een kleine quiz online gezet met een aantal waargebeurde voorbeelden uit de rechtszaal. Kijk of je eigen mening afwijkt van die van de rechter.

http://www.zestienmiljoenrechters.nl/

The Dynamics of Reason

This year’s annual Beth Lecturer & Vienna Circle Lecturer is Michael Friedman (Bloomington & Stanford), a well-known philosopher of science and historian of philosophy with special interests in Kant and the Vienna Circle. He will speak about his new book “The Dynamics of Reason” which brings together insights on scientific progress from Carnap and Kuhn, in a Kant-inspired perspective.
On this occasion, the Institute of Logic, Language and Computation organize, as one of its special events, an afternoon program on rational decision and action.
Further speakers are Boudewijn de Bruin, Henk de Regt, Jan-Willem Romeyn, Rens Bod, and Johan van Benthem.

14h, 11 dec 2004
Theater instituut nederland
herengracht 168
1016bp amsterdam

Security.NL maakt Nederland veilig

Hiermee beogen ze “om elektronische beveiliging hoog op de agenda te krijgen van de overheid, het bedrijfsleven, de industrie en particuliere gebruikers door het publiceren van relevante berichtgeving over gegevensbeveiliging en het onderhouden van elektronische gemeenschappen.”

Column Two: Weblogs Archives – a weblog on intersting articles about weblogs

How to use weblogs to create engaging learning experiences

Contentious � Blogging Style: The Basic Posting Formats (Series Index)
After reading blogs for awhile, I’ve come to see some patterns in the ways postings in text-based blogs are formatted. As I see it, there are seven basic formats for blog postings. Each serves a different purpose for bloggers and their readers.

The format of a blog posting, if chosen consciously and carefully, enhance communication – particularly the delivery of certain types of content. Consequently, some formats work best for commentary or explanation, others for alerts and references, etc.

Here are the seven basic blog posting formats:

1. Link-only
2. Link blurb
3. Brief remark
4. List
5. Short article
6. Long article
7. Series postings

Keep in mind that these types represent points along a spectrum. A specific posting might blend aspects of two or more formats.

Does anyone know a site where i can find info about cyberlaws? E.g. i’d like to know if there were any cases of a spider not respecting robots.txt or what the Dutch policy is of downloading a music fragment to your computer.
Apparently there used to be blawgs.detod.com – which was a searchenine indexing only weblogs that cover legal issues and events – but this one has gone out of service in march.
Other links but not suffienct are:

• http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/ – a research program studying cyberspace and its implications.
• slashdot on court cases

Please let me know.

Great site with a good explanation on what software patents are and why they should be stopped:
No Software Patents!
Under the influence of the patent system and big industry lobbyists, the European Union is on the verge of making a huge mistake: to pass a law that would legalize software patents.

del.icio.us is a social bookmarks manager. It allows you to easily add sites you like to your personal collection of links, to categorize those sites with keywords, and to share your collection not only between your own browsers and machines, but also with others.
Once you’ve registered for the service, you add a simple bookmarklet to your browser (see below). When you find a web page you’d like to add to your list, you simply select the del.icio.us bookmarklet, and you’ll be prompted for a information about the page. You can add descriptive terms to group similar links together, modify the title of the page, and add extended notes for yourself or for others.
You can access your list of links from any web browser. By default, your links are shown to you in reverse chronological order, with those you’ve added most recently at the top. In addition to viewing by date, you can also view all links in a specific category (you define your own categories as you add the links), or search your links for keywords.
What makes del.icio.us a social system is its ability to let you see the links that others have collected, as well as showing you who else has bookmarked a specific site. You can also view the links collected by others, and subscribe to the links of people whose lists you find interesting.

Us.ef.ul – A beginner’s guide to The Next Big Thing (del.icio.us)

This guide discusses a way an employee or student can securely access the Internet while at work or school, and also get around some common firewall restrictions that prevent you from using most networked programs. My definition of “securely” means that there should be no mean by which your employer can know which websites you have visited or are currently visiting, and can not view or decipher the content of those sites (without actually standing over your shoulder.)

Keep in mind that the method I discuss here will protected you from NETWORK monitoring, not actual computer or keystroke monitoring. So if your IT department has some security software installed on your PC, you probably shouldn’t even be looking at this page.

4 w3z:
Protect yourself from someone looking over your shoulder
Here’s a great application that fits in perfectly with the theme of this page. It’s called Ghostzilla; http://www.ghostzilla.com/ . The idea is that you want to surf the web, but have it look like you are doing normal work to people walking by your computer. Ghostzilla is a browser that hides itself in your normal work applications, like Excel, or Word, or Visual Studio… anything. With a swish of the mouse, Ghostzilla pops up and you can surf the web. If you see someone coming, simply move the mouse away, and it disappears, leaving no trace. Plus, you can easily configure it to use the shunnel as described here, for total privacy!

In this post you will learn how you can never miss an episode of your favorite shows ever again. This will be accomplished through the magic of BitTorrent and RSS.

it is so simple …

Looks like the project i’m involved with together with auke. Our project scrapes the images on news.google.com and displays the pictures that occur multiple times. That way you see which pictures are shown a lot all over the world. There are some catches ofcourse. More in a later post, together with the presentation

10×10 / 100 Words and Pictures that Define the Time / by Jonathan J. Harris
Every hour, 10×10 scans the RSS feeds of several leading international news sources, and performs an elaborate process of weighted linguistic analysis on the text contained in their top news stories. After this process, conclusions are automatically drawn about the hour’s most important words. The top 100 words are chosen, along with 100 corresponding images, culled from the source news stories. At the end of each day, month, and year, 10×10 looks back through its archives to conclude the top 100 words for the given time period. In this way, a constantly evolving record of our world is formed, based on prominent world events, without any human input.