I’M BLOGGING FROM A TERMINAL in the recently renovated Yale Law School Library reading room, which is just gorgeous. When I was a student here, the place was a bit down at the heels. It’s been seriously fixed up, and it’s beautiful. We’ve been very nicely hosted, and the conference will begin in about an hour. Some people will actually be blogging from the conference, but I didn’t bring a laptop this time. Now I wish I had. Blogging is likely to be limited as a result. I didn’t bring the laptop because the hotel said it had in-room high speed access via a WebTV like interface. What it actually has is something that sucks like a bilge pump, and that won’t even load many sites that are “too large.” Including this one, and every other weblog I tried. It’s absolutely the lamest computer experience I’ve ever had, bar none.

Anyway, Kitchen Cabinet will be blogging from the conference, and I’ll ask them to post links to the other folks doing the same. (Or you can follow the links on the conference page and just see what shows up!)

The nanotechnology paper has been picked up on Slashdot, which has generated a (mostly) interesting discussion. There’s also a story on CNET, though the headline gives the impression that the paper calls for a laissez-faire regime, which isn’t really true. The story more correctly characterizes it as a call for “modest regulation, civilian research, and an emphasis on self-regulation.” I have email that there’s something about it in the National Journal, too, but there’s no link.

Sorry that I won’t be blogging much today, but you can visit the ever-expanding Volokh Conspiracy for a lot of interesting new posts on everything from the Pentagon’s domestic spy project (Advice: “Concede no powers to your friends that you would not give to your enemies. If you are a Republican, the Law can be applied in the following form: give no powers of surveillance to the Bush administration that you would not be comfortable seeing in the hands of Hillary Clinton.”) to voter turnout and the unfolding CUNY tenure battle. And follow the various other links to the left and below. If I can get to a computer later, I’ll post more. We’ll see.