Blogger Iain Murray has been fired. His blog, The Edge of England’s Sword has been cited as the reason for his termination. Rather than link to the specific post, I’ll link to his site and give you an opportunity to scroll through.
via Instapundit

US Copyrights
The US Supreme Court has ruled that Congress can repeatedly extend copyright terms. This is profoundly disheartening. Dan Gillmor explains the decision and the process in lay terms, outlining out what it will mean for all of us.

Tech Central Station looks at the Creative Commons Licence with a critical eye.

e-church com.munity posts on the ‘ant’ model of blogging. Give how industrious ants are, and how colonies have been found that are hundreds of kilometres long, we could have worse models presented, I think.

Colby Cosh upgrades his opinion on comments sections for blogs. Uh, Colby, you don’t have to pass any more messages to China for blogger/blogspot. The seige has been lifted.

William Holtzer has written a column about the seriousness of the Raelian agenda. How many ‘clonings’ have already failed?

Human Rights
How, surrounded by the comfort of the things we have accumulated, do we grasp the reality of reports like this? How do we take a phrase such as ‘20 thousand people’ and put a face, pain, loss, despair and the reality to this? How do we keep from being desensitized and find ways to help? How do we stand against such profound dehumanization?

This MSNBC report looks at the worst of the worst…..labour camps in North Korea. When you have read it, tell me what you think, what you feel, and what you believe can or should be done.

At one camp, Camp 22 in Haengyong, some 50,000 prisoners toil each day in conditions that U.S. officials and former inmates say results in the death of 20 percent to 25 percent of the prison population every year.

Products made by prison laborers may wind up on U.S. store shelves, having been “washed” first through Chinese companies that serve as intermediaries.

Entire families, including grandchildren, are incarcerated for even the most bland political statements.

Forced abortions are carried out on pregnant women so that another generation of political dissidents will be “eradicated.”

Inmates are used as human guinea pigs for testing biological and chemical agents, according to both former inmates and U.S. officials.

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