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What ‘Maisie’ Doesn’t Know by Francine Prose. It is more common than not that a movie fails to measure up to the literary masterpiece that inspired it.

What ‘Maisie’ Doesn’t Know by Francine Prose

But the particular failures of What Maisie Knew, the new film based on Henry James’s 1897 novel, seem uncommonly revealing—both about the relative possibilities and limitations of the printed word and the screen, and about the differences between the moral climate of James’s era and that of our own. Written not long after the debacle that ended his foray into playwriting and before he adopted the highly convoluted sentence structure that characterized his late period, What Maisie Knew tracks the plight of Maisie Farange, whose parents, Beale and Ida, are already in divorce litigation as the book begins. Reading it, you can’t help pitying the hapless little girl trapped in the crossfire of a bellicose and bitter split. Maisie’s equally reprehensible father and mother are the most thinly drawn of the novel’s major characters.

How Twilight Works. All artwork and content on this site is Copyright © 2015 Matthew Inman.

How Twilight Works

Please don't steal. TheOatmeal.com was lovingly built using CakePHP All artwork and content on this site is Copyright © 2015 Matthew Inman. Please don't steal. TheOatmeal.com was lovingly built using CakePHP. US boffin rewrites Star Wars in style of Shakespeare. Against Intellectual Monopoly. Philosophy of Law  Star Trek The Cage. Manage Your Digital Afterlife with Perpetu. In the last few years, perhaps without realising it, our lives have gotten almost completely digitized.

Manage Your Digital Afterlife with Perpetu

There’s an inbox full of amazing conversations, a cloud storage filled with photos and videos that bring back memories, and social networks that tell you just how important those personal connections in your life are. And it begs the question: what happens to all of this data if you were to die? It’s a morbid topic and no one likes to face their own mortality, but at some point, we are all going to be moving on.

However, our digital data — all those photos and videos and emails and chats — are going to stay right where they are, almost like a ghostly reminder of our life. You may feel a need to manage what happens to this data. Like the article? The first step to using Perpetu is signing up for an account. Trusted Notifiers This is actually the most important part of the app. Each account has a unique username and secret code. Final Wishes Private Emails & Contacts Free vs Classic. HAMLET IS BACK. SCHARZENEGGER. Rethinking rights, accreditation, and journalism itself in the age of Twitter.

The follow is the text of a speech by David Schlesinger, Editor-in-Chief Reuters News, to the International Olympics Committee Press Commission on June 23.

Rethinking rights, accreditation, and journalism itself in the age of Twitter

On May 29th, James Coleman of Bristol smacked his skull on a tree branch while filing updates to the Twitter service (or tweeting) from his Blackberry during a run. His accident spawned a new word: a “Twinjury”. Just think about it: Jogging, Blackberrying, tweeting simultaneously – what more 21st century manifestation of the spirit of amateur sportsmanship could there be? That same day, St. Petersburg Times sports journalist Rick Stroud tweeted on his Twitter page about US Football developments: “Hearing reports that Bucs might be interested in Marvin Harrison,” he wrote to anyone following his feed. His reader/followers read it and believed what he wrote. Turned out, though, Stroud had different standards for his Twitter account than for his newspaper. “People, if I tweet something…it’s … speculation,” he said.

The horror! Thank you. Prominent Law Site Shuts Down Because Editor Worries About Government Reading Her Emails. The editor of a well-respected legal site, Groklaw, has announced thatshe’s going to stop producing the site because the government might be reading her emails.

Prominent Law Site Shuts Down Because Editor Worries About Government Reading Her Emails

Groklaw is a collaborative site that explores the nuances of certain cases and legal decisions, including the recent Apple v. Samsung case. The editor of the site, Pamela Jones, says she can’t operate the site without email. And the idea that faceless government spooks might be reading any email that she sends outside the U.S. is too much for her: [T]he conclusion I’ve reached is that there is no way to continue doing Groklaw, not long term, which is incredibly sad. Star Trek and Intellectual Property - Rhyme and Reason by Philip Brocoum. Against intellectual property. Law, Philosophy of  Philosophy of law (or legal philosophy) is concerned with providing a general philosophical analysis of law and legal institutions.

Law, Philosophy of 

Issues in the field range from abstract conceptual questions about the nature of law and legal systems to normative questions about the relationship between law and morality and the justification for various legal institutions. Topics in legal philosophy tend to be more abstract than related topics in political philosophy and applied ethics. For example, whereas the question of how properly to interpret the U.S.