Archive for the ‘Crime and punishment’ Category
Is it wrong to punish prisoners?
Posted by: gimster on: November 23, 2009
Fair Use & Copyright
Posted by: gimster on: January 21, 2008
Intellectual Property laws are among the most complicated ideas out there, or so I remember hearing the Chief Technology Officer for Linden Lab telling us in the audience at NTU last year. So, here’s some comprehensible information every blogger should know? Or worry about?
Copyright Explained: I may copy, right? – Clear and concise, with links [...]
Quote of the day
Posted by: gimster on: September 16, 2006
‘I want you to know that our lives are all at risk for random acts, but more likely random acts of love will come your way than random acts of violence.’
Susan Kuhnhausen, a 51-year-old nurse who fended off
an intruder in her home by strangling him with her bare hands
(Source)
May 3 is World Press Freedom Day
Posted by: gimster on: May 2, 2006
The observance of World Press Freedom Day started in 1993 with the proclamation by the UN General Assembly (source).
Throughout the world, 3 May serves as an occasion to inform the public of violations of the right to freedom of expression and as a reminder that many journalists brave death or jail to bring people their [...]
A spot of fame, and a look back
Posted by: gimster on: April 20, 2006
According to the blog stats chart, this blog had 309 hits for the 24-hour period starting from 8AM (Singapore time) yesterday. The threefold increase from the previous record of 106 is in no small part due to Mr Miyagi's very kind feature of The General Paper in his column in TODAY (linked here for the [...]
Natalie Portman on the definition of terrorism
Posted by: gimster on: April 5, 2006
In a Time magazine article (March 13) discussing the movie V for Vendetta, Israeli-born Natalie Portman is reported to express hope that the movies will encourage debate about the definition of terrorism. She 'name-checks', among others, Gandhi, Elie Wiesel, Menachem Begin, George Washington and the Maccabees. And
She points out, quite correctly, that the question of [...]
The blog as an instrument of justice in Singapore
Posted by: gimster on: March 29, 2006
Mr Miyagi, a rather well known Singaporean blogger and contributor to TODAY (the free paper from Mediacorp), writes about online spaces – blogs – in which to bring attention to contraventions of social mores in Singapore. Read his post and the TODAY article at http://miyagi.sg/?p=1024
‘Convicts get game consoles for good conduct’
Posted by: gimster on: March 26, 2006
A free story from The Straits Times Interactive: http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/free/story/0,6418,380623,00.html?
OREGON'S prison system is turning to computer games to help rehabilitate felons. Inmates who have a clean disciplinary record for 18 months are given a chance to buy a small handheld game console.
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