The Copyright Infringements in the Rue Morgue
Jun 09In his introduction to Edgar Allan Poe’s Dupin trilogy, Matthew Pearl offers in passing an interesting thought on copyright: The brilliant resolution Poe designs for “The Purloined Letter” – that the letter in question is right in front of our eyes the whole time, which is why the police cannot find it – is also [...]
Keep Warm
Jun 09Doctor Who fans might get a kick out of Tachyon TV’s blog series Adventures With the Wife in Space, wherein überfan Neil Perryman reports as his not-so-much-a-fan wife Sue Thompson watches, makes acerbic and amusingly disparaging comments on, and grades every single episode (or such, at any rate, is the plan) of the classic 1963-1989 [...]
Cordial and Sanguine, Part 6
Jun 09My third post (yeah, been crazy busy lately) at Bleeding Heart Libertarians is now up: “Prison Break.”
Anarchy in India
Jun 08Before it had malls, a theme park and fancy housing compounds … Gurgaon was widely regarded as an economic wasteland. In 1979, the state of Haryana created Gurgaon by dividing a longstanding political district on the outskirts of New Delhi. One half would revolve around the city of Faridabad, which had an active municipal government, [...]
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