Click here to read how the state of Texas probably executed the wrong man in 1989, according to a new study put out by the Columbia Human Rights Law Review today.

Click here to read some numbers behind Kodak’s petition to file for bankruptcy.

Below is a 1970′s commercial for the camera and film giant. Unfortunately, it’s posted on YouTube without the soundtrack—a jingle called “The Times of Your Life” sung by Paul Anka. One of the most maudlin commercials in the history of TV advertising. A Kodak moment indeed. Here’s a link to the song.

It wasn’t the first time the company reached through the TV to pull mercilessly on consumers’ heart strings…

And here’s another ad from groovier times…

Unfortunately for Kodak, sentimentality doesn’t count for much in the business world.

Click here to read a letter in today’s Albany Times Union. In somewhat related news, click here to read a New York Times story published yesterday about UB 2020. (Note the photo of Robert Shibley, pointing out the window toward McCarley Gardens, with the caption: “Robert G. Shibley, the architecture school’s dean, pointing to areas where the university could expand.”)

Shibley told us in November, 2009, that the acquisition of McCarley Gardens was not essential to implementing UB’s grandiose 2020 plan. A writer from the NY Times comes to town, and he’s right back to pitching the same old snake oil.

Thousands of gallons of fracking fluid are spilling uncontrollably from a natural gas well in Pennsylvania. The well blew out last night, and is still spilling out of control this afternoon. Here are some details:

Bradford County’s director of public safety said a Chesapeake well went out of control late Tuesday night. That means the well blew near the surface, spilling thousands and thousands of gallons of frack fluid over containment walls, through fields, personal property and farms, even where cattle continue to graze.

DEP is taking ground water and stream samples to determine the extent of the spill.

Officials said fluids from the well have, in fact, contaminated Towanda Creek which feeds into the Susquehanna River.

The unfolding emergency took place on the one year anniversary of the BP oil spill. The surrounding area has been evacuated.

Click here and here to read more.

Click here for a link to the reuse plans for Millard Fillmore Gates Circle Hospital put forth by the Urban Land Institute.

The hospital is scheduled to close by early next year.

A Kaleida Health official promises an opportunity for public input sometime in June, but nothing is set yet.

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, here’s the dish on NY Republican legislator Chris Lee. Yes, it involves a woman other than his wife. And, yes, it involves Craigslist. And, yes, it involves a revealing cell phone self portrait.

Click here to read about it in New York magazine, and click here to read about it on Gawker.

A Lee spokesman is claiming that the congressman is the victim of a hacker.

Charlie Louvin, surviving half of the Louvin Brothers, passed away yesterday.

Their unique harmonies influenced generations of country singers.

Here he is singing “If I Could Only Win Your Love” with Emmylou Harris in the 1980s. Harris had recorded the Louvin’s song on her first solo record in 1975.

Today, at her State of the SUNY address,  SUNY Chancellor Nancy “the Seductress” Zimpher will announce a new sort of college bowl game, pitting New York state schools against one another in a competition for state funding.

Meanwhile, in education news, Henry A. Giroux writes about the swindle of the corporate university in America today.