Thank goodness for Peter Doshi, who is doing his best to get the word out on the bird-flu frenzy. See his latest blast against the hype.

Tales From The Public Domain: BOUND BY LAW? is a project of Duke University’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain. It is a look at the battlefield that is intellectual property law told through the eyes of a documentary filmmaker. The comic is quite insightful and does point out the insanity and ridiculousness that make up today’s copyright laws.

Now that my relationship with Pepperdine University has been finalized (I was given the title of “Professor Emeritus”), I want to make my syllabi available to anyone who may be interested. I’ve got basically two of them (one “micro” and the other “macro”). Each of them has eight supplements. The arrangement is somewhat complex and the way I handled it was with a course web site. I’ve now recreated and somewhat updated that web site. The link is www.georgereisman.com/Pepperdine/.

For generations, products have advertised themselves as “new and improved.” We are too quick to dismiss this phrase as a promotional boilerplate. The market really does generate unrelenting improvements in our living standards. Meanwhile, the public sector is forever promising to improve its services and products, but every attempt creates only conflict and eventual stalemate.

I came across an interesting comment and quote in an article I was recently reading:

One of the presentations at the ASC this weekend was by Ed Stringham on Christian anarchist David Lipscomb, founder of Lipscomb University and author of an 1889 work titled Civil Government, arguing for anarchism on Biblical grounds.

OpinionJournal is very unhappy about the movie Vendetta, as you can see. The paper by Rothbard referenced herein is here.

A news story has been circulating that a man was busted carrying counterfeit $1 Billion dollar bills..

The counterfeit money looked good, but there was one flaw: there is no such thing as a billion-dollar bill.

US Customs agents in California say they found 250 bogus billion-dollar bills while investigating a man charged with currency smuggling.

About 20 of us from the Austrian Scholars Conference caught V for Vendetta Friday night. It’s not everyday that you get to see a great libertarian, even anarchist, film on opening weekend with libertarians from around the country! Here is my review for the film page:

V for Vendetta (2006)