Amazon says it won’t launch a free phone – There was this ridiculous rumor spreading around the internet for a couple of days that Amazon’s not yet released Smartphone would be offered up for free. I refused to blog about it because the rumor just did not pass the smell ... more >
[T]he fact that society may find speech offensive is not a sufficient reason for suppressing it. Indeed, if it is the speaker’s opinion that gives offense, that consequence is a reason for according it constitutional protection. [p56] For it is a central tenet of the First Amendment that the government ... more >
Six degrees of separation theory was a fraud. Stanley Milgram, a controversial psychologist, coined this term after asking “people to give a letter to other people they knew by name, then he tracked how long it took for each letter to end up in the hands of a person the ... more >