Happy Easter! And a very Shameless Sunday to you all.

To-day is a day of celebration and preparation — sharing brunch and folding booklets; cleaning house and packing boxes. After some Easter festivities I’m now setting to work preparing a big batch of Market Anarchy (for general purposes, and for ALL and C4SS at this summer’s Porcfest), and also the beginnings of cleaning and packing for our upcoming big move back east. (Yesterday’s mission was donating clothes; next weekend’s, I think, will be parting with books at our local used bookery.)

And you? What have you been up to this week? Write anything? Leave a link and a short description for your post in the comments. Or fire away about anything else you might want to talk about.

When Police Interrogate Children. The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty (2011-04-23):

On its surface, a case currently before the U.S. Supreme Court may seem to be legally trivial; it's about a juvenile who stole from neighborhood houses. But J.D.B. v. North Carolina could redefine both the law's "reasonable person" standard and what it means to be in custody. The case is…

My view is that if you are not free to leave, then you are in custody. Are students free to leave school? If not, they are always in custody. Let alone when there’s an armed police officer in the room.

You might think that this standard would make it hard for police to interrogate children. Well, yes. Then police would interrogate fewer children. Or else they could try to get legislators to get rid of compulsory attendance laws. I’m OK with that. But perhaps I am not a Reasonable Person.

• Dresden Codak » Archive » Dark Science #09 – Insufficient Credibility. Tennyson McCalla, Tennyson McCalla's Facebook Links (2011-04-20). Dresden Codak » Archive » Dark Science #09 – Insufficient CredibilitySource: dresdencodak.com- I'll be teaching a Webcomics course at CCNY starting in June! If you're a student there or just want to sign up, you should check out the details there. Â  Â [New Dresden Codak! I forgot to put this up earlier… (Linked Thursday 2011-04-21.)

• Event: Houston Anarchist Book Fair. Justin Lee, DFW Alliance of the Libertarian Left (2011-04-20). What: Well over a dozen organizations are coming together Friday, April 22, to April 24 to hold the Houston Anarchist Book Fair. It appears it is going to be a very well-attended event. The schedule of workshops and discussions will run from Saturday morning until early Sunday evening and is… (Linked Thursday 2011-04-21.)

• Trust in the State Is Flawed. DFW ALL, DFW Alliance of the Libertarian Left (2011-04-06). The government does not hate you. The government does not like you. It is indifferent. The government is not an entity with feelings, remorse, ethics or conscious. It is a collective of individuals working according to rigid flawed guidelines. The government is not an individual therefore the government as a… (Linked Thursday 2011-04-21.)

• Giant Babies of the Future (1937) Matt Novak, Paleofuture Blog (2011-04-16). Many people in the 20th century assumed that the average citizen of the 21st century would be taller. However, a smaller (and for our purposes admittedly more entertaining) contingent assumed that advances in chemistry would breed hilariously super-sized babies. Having tipped the scales at ten pounds and ten ounces when I… (Linked Thursday 2011-04-21.)

• Paleofuture Magazine (Issue 1: Food) Matt Novak, Paleofuture Blog (2011-04-04). The first issue of Paleofuture Magazine is now available for purchase! The print version will set you back $11.99 and includes a free PDF download that looks great on your futuristic computing machine. Or you can download the PDF version alone for just $1.99. Paleofuture Magazine’s first issue is all about… (Linked Thursday 2011-04-21.)

• Future Timeline. xkcd.com (2011-04-17). (Linked Monday 2011-04-18.)

• Big Media To Innovative App Maker: Stop Innovating Without Our Permission! | Techdirt. www.techdirt.com (2011-04-18). “And, honestly, if creating an app that makes it easier to read your content is a threat to your business, you’re doing business wrong.” (Linked Monday 2011-04-18.)

• boardgames are to monopoly as comics are to garfield, THAT'S RIGHT I SAID IT. Dinosaur Comics (2011-04-19). I blame the Georgists. (Linked Tuesday 2011-04-19.)

• Austro-Californian Empire? Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2011-04-18). While in San Diego I'll be meeting with the San Diego Austrians and the Café Libertalia folks on Thursday night. Details here (for the socially mediated). (Linked Tuesday 2011-04-19.)

• if i was interested in starting a…resistance movement, i. Captain Capitulation, eye of the storm (2011-04-19). if i was interested in starting a…resistance movement, i would proceed by simulated terrorism. such a procedure is suggested by things like this, where i'm thinking the authorities evacuated a mall or at least closed in en masse to get a guy wandering around a mall with a rifle, when it… (Linked Tuesday 2011-04-19.)

• Birmingham officers who beat man while he was unconscious to be reinstated. Dr. Q, Gangsters in Blue (2011-04-15). On January 23, 2008 Birmingham police officers attempted to stop and question one Anthony Shannon Warren about suspected drug activity. Warren fled in his car. Because interrogating people about suspected involvement in activities that harm no one is much more important than public safety, the officers decided that the best… (Linked Wednesday 2011-04-20.)

• On Controlling Parents. der Blaustrumpf (2011-04-20). “Many of the comments, like the author herself, blame Rand for the father's selfishness. What struck me is not the awfulness of Rand's philosophy, though awful it is, but that a seemingly infinite number of options are available to parents who wish to justify abuse. A hardcore Objectivist parent is rare, thankfully, but it'd be easy to envision a Christian parent who would justify similar deprivation as a lesson in altruism and humility – the very opposite of Rand's alleged ideals.” – Cheryl Cline (Linked Wednesday 2011-04-20.)

• Free Market Anti-Capitalism Paper Online. DarianW, DarianWorden.com (2011-04-19). My contribution to the 2011 APEE Topics in Free-Market Anti-Capitalism panel is now available for download from my archives page: Capitalism, Free Enterprise, and Progress: Partners or Adversaries? The paper disentangles the concepts of capitalism, free enterprise, and progress in the context of the early Industrial Revolution. While a lot… (Linked Wednesday 2011-04-20.)

• Digital Cash Sparks Digital Debate. Jesse Walker, Jesse Walker: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2011-04-20). Writing in Time, of all places, Jerry Brito discusses Bitcoin, the latest alternative currency to capture the digerati's imagination: The web has also seen all-purpose digital currencies, from defunct dot-com bubble start-ups Flooz and Beenz, to the slightly more successful e-gold. Unlike cash, however, digital currencies to date have had a… (Linked Wednesday 2011-04-20.)

• "Property is Theft!" book launch in London. Shawn P. Wilbur, Two-Gun Mutualism & the Golden Rule (2011-04-15). [From Iain McKay] Freedom Bookshop is hosting the book launch of”Property is Theft! A Pierre-Joseph ProudhonAnthology”. This is the new comprehensive anthology of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon’s writings published by AK Press. Proudhon was the first person to call themselves an anarchist and his ideas on property, state, exploitation, workers self-management, federalism… (Linked Saturday 2011-04-16.)

• Translation From MS-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Dean Hachamovitch's "Native HTML5!!!@@e2;20ac;b3; announcement. Mark, dive into mark (2011-04-15). [Original] Browsers that use modern operating systems more directly deliver better experiences. Browsers that compromise (by spreading across too many OSes and OS versions) face challenges. We can't decide if we want IE to drive Windows adoption or Windows to drive IE adoption. The best HTML5 is native to the… (Linked Sunday 2011-04-17.)