Jonathan Zittrain

The English do like their rules, and woe betide the student at St Antony’s College who used up the last brain cycles of the day on work before heading for a simple meal in Hall:
Without parentheses, the menu is susceptible to at least six readings.

Wow, it’s hard to count the number of inaccuracies in this Reuters story on UK copyright term extension. The story makes it sound as if the Rolling Stones and the Beatles are about to lose their copyrights, because a 50 year term will not be extended to 95 years. But the 50 year term [...]