Lex Ferenda

Apple has released an unusual iPod software update:
The new 1.1.1 software update for iPod nano and Fifth Generation iPod provides an easy way for you to set a maximum volume limit to prevent the volume from exceeding a certain level. You can also assign a combination to prevent the setting from being changed which is [...]

International Conference on The Slobodan Milosevic Trial
29th/30th April 2006, NUI Galway
An assessment of the trial of Slobodan Milosević, bringing together leading international experts on the trial itself, and on international criminal justice. The conference will assess the strengths and weaknesses of the trial, and evaluate its contribution to justice and peace.
Confirmed speakers include:
Stephen Kay [...]

“Harry Potter and the Half-Crazed Bureaucracy” (Michigan Law Review, Vol. 104, May 2006)
BENJAMIN BARTON
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
This Essay examines what the Harry Potter series (and particularly the most recent book, The Half-Blood Prince) tells us about government and bureaucracy. There are two short answers.
(If you want to find out what the answers are, you’ll have [...]

In relation to online libel…
Tracy Williams, a college lecturer from Oldham, was ordered by a high court judge to pay £10,000 in damages, as well as Mr Keith-Smith’s £7,200 costs, and told never to repeat the allegations.
The case is one of the first of its kind between two private individuals to go to court and, [...]

So, Nature (that scientific journal of high reputation) wrote an article about the differences between the Encyclopædia Britannica (that Encyclopædia of high reputation) and Wikipedia (that website of variable reputation). Along the lines that both sources were making a similar amount of errors, with some fairly anodyne discussion of how Wikipedia works and is [...]