links for 2008-06-10

• The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination — The Harvard University Gazette
  J.K. Rowlings's 2008 Harvard commencement address.
  (tags: ideas people)
• McCain Revises Stance on Warrantless Wiretapping Again | Electronic Frontier Foundation
  "McCain should stop listening to Charlie Black, Wayne Berman, Dan Coats and the other lobbyists for the defendants in the pending lawsuits on his campaign staff, and start listening to the American people. A strong majority of likely voters oppose immunit
  (tags: election2008 telecoms law surveillance u.s.a. privacy freespeech business csr)
• China Media Project » Is it against Chinese law to be callous and pigheaded?
  "China’s latest case of the “human flesh search engine” (人肉引掣) at work has landed a 17-year-old girl in police detention, and that has some Chinese asking: is this really a matter of broad social concern, and is there any legal basis for pol
  (tags: china media law police citizenmedia chineseinternetresearch internet)