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Dorothea Salo's interview with Frank has swamped my synapses. Beautifully written, subject matter rich and wide ranging. Dorothea's merely 30; see also "Things Other People Accomplished When They Were Your Age [Or Younger, You Slouch]" [via The Screen Savers].

Bugs, Morals And Sock Puppets

After that tease, here are a couple of things to check in the current Wired:

The Bugs in the Machine (by Brendan I. Koerner): on how code could be cleaner and products liability law may concur.
--Not mentioned, but relevant: transparency. [Via The Linux Journal and Doc]

The Moral Minority (by Denise Caruso): on an "open house" approach to bioethics.

There are more good pieces but those caught my eye. Also (not in Wired), did you see where the Sock Puppet has gotten himself a second chance? [Via E-commerce Times] With a car loan group and a new tag line: "Who says pets can't drive?"

Mailbox Revelation

Come home from work, pick up the mail: bills, bills, junk, Wired Magazine - which I suddenly realize I now view as their way of telling me the magazine part of the Web site has been updated. (Duhn-duhn-duhn; dissolve to black.)

Tomorrow: Glenn Otis Brown of Creative Commons

Don't forget, tomorrow afternoon Bag and Baggage will share Creative Commons Assistant Director Glenn Otis Brown's thoughts on "The Future Of Copyright In The 21st Century," courtesy of our intellectual property practice group (my second, along with appellate). I can still get you in if you ask nicely (more here); otherwise, check here a little after 1:00 p.m. PDT.

Turn Yourselves In, Or You Will Be Apprehended...

Sometimes, justifiably in awe of the perilous tactics of the Blawg Patrol field unit, blawgers just remand themselves to my custody, and turn in their cohorts to boot. Such was the case with Jason Rylander, who practices appellate and land use law in Washington, D.C.:

In my 30 years, I've been an election lawyer, an environmental journalist, a freelance writer, an expert chess player, and a classical tenor. I live in the Washington, D.C. area, but I'm a native New Yorker who can't understand why there's no good Chinese food and pizza by the slice around here. I'm also an opera freak, audiophile, and chowhound who likes Bach, Puccini, Sapphire martinis, fine food, and sleeping late.

Jason also ratted out the indefatigable Pejman Yousefzadeh. I had come across Pejman's site awhile ago and didn't register he was a lawyer. Some force must have been trying to clue me in, as the phrase "PejmanPundit" has since gone through my head several times during yoga class like a mantra.

Meanwhile, the field unit remains fully deployed and operational. Agent Will Cox reports, "blawgspotting: almost as fun as trainspotting, but without the toilet-diving," and has nabbed our first Canadian blawg: Michael Girard's e-Lawg. Michael is a bona fide Barrister and Solicitor in Toronto, who reckons e-Lawg will reflect his interests in professional liability (legal and accounting), technology, privacy, Conflict of Laws, insurance, litigation, management and KM.