Both Glee and the RIAA can’t be right. It’s hard to imagine glee club coach Will Schuester giving his students a tough speech on how they can’t do mash-ups anymore because of copyright law (but if he did, it might make people rethink the law). Instead, copyright violations are rewarded in Glee — after Sue’s Physical video goes viral, Olivia Newton-John contacts Sue so they can film a new, improved video together.

Nice story from Marshall K.

The Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken Englishis a searchable collection of almost 2 million words of transcribed spoken English from the University of Michigan, including student study groups, office hours, dissertation defenses, and campus tours. Researchers use the Michigan corpus to investigate questions about usage, like "less or fewer?" (cf. this contentious Ask Meta thread) and more general topics, like "Vague Language in Academia."

OPML XSLT for S5 -- cute, sort of reminds me of writing LaTeX 'beamer' slides.

I need to decide by mid-morning if I'm going to this.

His new book, due out this fall, in part a reaction to Wolfram's recent "activity."

Gimme "liberty" and "freedom" (or words of your choice).

"To Sarmao and his people the sea has always been kind. It does not mean to hurt anybody, he says, but we need to know when to be on it and when not."

"Writing good trivia questions is a lot harder than it sounds."