Robert asked me to take his busted iPhone in for service, so I figure I might as well widen the call: does anyone in Amsterdam want help with an iPhone, whether buying one or getting one repaired? I’ll be in Silicon Valley from December 14 to January 8 and would be glad to help out.
Stephen Colbert just announced he is entering the South Carolina presidential primary. Granted, he didn’t say if it was the Republican or Democratic primary he would be entering.
Last night I watched Larry Lessig’s corruption lecture and I just finished Tim Wu’s interesting piece on how laws stop being enforced. The latter directly ties into the first as my immediate response from Wu’s piece was to wonder why Congress doesn’t change laws that most people actually no longer support, something which Lessig answers.