Monthly Archives: September 2008

Do You Knowshon? I Do, But ESPN Doesn’t

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Knowshon, you rock.

And ESPN didn’t show any of it. I watched a good bit of Sports Center last night, and they showed two plays from the game, neither of which included this hurdling. Here’s what David Hale of the Ledger-Enquirer had to say about this bias:

It’s hard to explain, however, how the No. 2 team in the country got a five second highlight that didn’t include one of the best players in the country hurdling a defender. Or running for a 50+ yard touchdown. Or either of his other two touchdowns.

College Football Today

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Georgia football Coach Mark Richt and his wife Katharyn interviewed at their house recently:

And some other college football notes.

Even though Will Muschamp is bloody, he’s just copying Erk Russell (bloody here).

Jesse Palmer, you can’t talk football when you are wearing a pink shirt and your tie is way too short.

And last, why does College GameDay like Florida so much? Notice that GameDay has been at Williams College (once) as many times as they have been at Georgia.

PS – I’m tailgating for the KU game today.

California’s Laws Are Copyrighted Too

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In addition to Oregon’s laws, citizens are forbidden from downloading and saving California’s laws:

California’s building codes, plumbing standards and criminal laws can be found online.

But if you want to download and save those laws to your computer, forget it.

The state claims copyright to those laws. It dictates how you can access and distribute them — and therefore how much you’ll have to pay for print or digital copies.

It forbids people from storing or distributing its laws without consent.

This passage comes from an article in a Santa Rosa paper about Carl Malamud, an activist for citizen access to government information. He has previously fought and won public access to the SEC corporate filings database (called EDGAR), U.S. Patent Office filings, Smithsonian records, the freedom to share CSPAN videos, court records, and in June got the State of Oregon to release copyright on its code. Information about all of these projects, and their full text, can be found at http://public.resource.org.