Musings on law, tech, chess & other topics by a geek

The Google Policy Fellowship applications are now open.  I highly recommend applying if you are interested in policy work.  Working at Public Knowledge last summer was amazing.  I was able to get first hand experience with the FCC, the Copyright Office and some amazing nonprofits in the DC area like KEI and EPIC.

This years sponsoring organizations includes a few new orgs:

American Library Association
Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic
Cato Institute
Center for Democracy and Technology
The Citizen Lab
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Creative Commons
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Future of Music Coalition
Internet Education Foundation
Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
Media Access Project
National Hispanic Media Coalition
New America Foundation
Progress and Freedom Foundation
Public Knowledge
Technology Policy Institute

The application deadline is December 28, 2009.  Apply at the fellowship page.  Please feel free to ping me if you want to know more information about my experience last summer.

Amazing TED talk on mythology, liner time and cyclical time, binary logic and fuzzy logic. This talk covers a lot of why I am so attached to Rashomon and mythology!

I will need to re-watch it a few times to see if it holds up over time but my first impression is that this could on par with Wade Davis and Hans Hosling.