November 2011
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How The Stop Online Piracy Act Will Kill... →
Ugh.
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I am more and more disgusted by the corporations and government everyday. Even more hilarious thinking that Obama has no comment on this shit and he is our ‘change’ that we voted for. Why do generations prior believe they are saving us from ourselves? It is slowly becoming our world and we are letting them keep it their world. In the words of Muffy, vom-atrocious.
I want to support WikiLeaks →
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I’d like to see one of the banks break ranks and offer us a way to get money to WikiLeaks with a credit card. Or I’d like to see one of the supposedly reputable news organizations…
Occupy Movement, Howard Beale & Lessons from... →
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“Maybe someday, we will use the internet to make our public officials engage with us and be accountable to us as is supposed to happen in a democracy.”
Whenever I read or…
October 2011
Senseless Drawing Bot →
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cool machine - senseless edit on the video.
Senseless Drawing Bot is a collaboration project + installation created by So Kanno and Takahiro Yamaguchi. Metal Works…
Codecademy Looks Like The Future Of Learning To Me →
So CrunchFund invested in Codecademy, along with Union Square Ventures and a whole pack of others.
Codecademy teaches people how to code. Starting with the assumption that you know absolutely…
E-PARASITE Bill: 'The End Of The Internet As... →
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this bill is an astounding wishlist of everything that the legacy entertainment gatekeepers have wanted in the law for decades and were unable to get.
We already wrote about the …
The message of Occupy →
It’s really simple. The United States has been run for the benefit of a very small group of people. That was never the idea of this country. This must change. Occupy Wall Street is not…
FBI-Sponsored Backdoors →
From a review of Susan Landau’s Surveillance or Security?: To catch up with the new technologies of malfeasance, FBI director Robert Mueller traveled to Silicon Valley last November to…
Insider Attack Against Diebold Voting Machines →
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… no one hears the general truth: these systems are insecure, and should not be used in elections.
This is both news and not news: Indeed, the Argonne team’s attack required…
RIAA Law Lets Law Enforcement Ignore 4th... →
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It’s getting so ridiculous that even those who are generally supporters of the RIAA/MPAA’s positions are saying this bill goes way too far, noting that it grants way too much power…
Apple will now give you up to $200 for your old... →
Brad McCarty / The Next Web: Apple will now give you up to $200 for your old iPhone 4 — Shuddering at the thought of paying for that new iPhone 4S? Shudder no more. Apple,…
As Countries Sign ACTA, Many Finally Admit Their... →
It will come as little news to most people that, as was expected, the US signed the ACTA treaty (while pretending it was an “executive agreement”) this weekend in Japan. While the EU, Mexico…
September 2011
Another Day, Another Story Of Police Lying... Only... →
We just had a post about how a video of police showed that they lied in arresting a guy. Josef Anvil points us to a similar, but slightly different, story that took place in Chicago. In this…
Police Ticket Guy Who Helped Direct Traffic After... →
Sometimes it seems that law enforcement is a lot more interested in enforcing the letter of the law than the spirit of the law. Via Radley Balko, we learn that police in Pasadena California showed…
Joshua Tree by Katie Miller →
Katie Miller was born in Minnesota and holds a B.A. from Bennington College where she studied video and performance. Although she did not initially aim to focus on photography, it has…
At Long Last, Facebook Adds Twitter-Style... →
Starting today, Facebook users will be allowed to offer people the option to subscribe to their public updates. Now Facebook users will be able to connect with each other without becoming friends,…
Beautiful? or Illegal? - Graffiti House In Santa... →
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More evidence that the law recognizes that public facing walls belong to the public, not the building “owner.” In this case, the city ordinances are not reflecting the best in…
Starz, Netflix And How Industry Jealousies... →
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This all points to an incredible level of arrogance on the part of the content providers. First off, they assume the public cares about release dates, exclusive licensing deals and…
If TV Companies Released Authorized Torrents With... →
More than seven years ago, we first wrote about Ernest Miller’s concept of Bitcatching — a name that never caught on — which was the combination of RSS + BitTorrent, allowing the ability to…
Strobe Launches Game-Changing HTML5 App Platform →
Today, Strobe Inc. is launching a new platform that helps developers build HTML5-based Web applications for desktops, smartphones and tablets, and centrally manage them from a single…
Unredacted U.S. Diplomatic WikiLeaks Cables... →
It looks as if the entire mass of U.S. diplomatic cables that WikiLeaks had is available online somewhere. How this came about is a good illustration of how security can go wrong in ways you…
August 2011
Feds Raid Gibson; Musicians Now Worried The Gov't... →
Last week, the feds apparently raided the premises of Gibson Guitar, searching for “illegal wood” used in those guitars. Apparently, the government and Gibson have been involved in an ongoing…
ArtsBeat Blog: China Says Lady Gaga, Beyoncé and... →
China has ordered songs by a number of pop stars to be removed from Chinese Web sites, citing some songs as a threat to “cultural national security.”
Google could care less about Reader →
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Dear Musicians: The RIAA Is About To Totally Screw... →
It’s been two years since we first warned of the pending fight concerning musicians asserting their copyright termination rights. As you hopefully know by now, copyright law includes a “termination…
Police, Yet Again, Arrest Someone For Filming... →
These stories are becoming all too common. The police in Suffolk County, New York (where I grew up, actually), arrested a freelance news photographer who was videotaping the conclusion of a police…
Mark Cuban on Patent Reform →
Mark Cuban: End all software patents. Don’t make them shorter, eliminate them.
End all process patents. They serve absolutely no purpose.
That’d be a good start.
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When Innovation Meets the Old Guard →
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Our system of law was created to promote justice; now it exists to make criminals.
You’ve probably heard of Khan Academy, the online lessons that have been praised so highly. …
July 2011
Fake 1.8 - Browser that simplifies web... →
Fake is a new browser for Mac OS X that makes web automation simple. Fake allows you to drag discrete browser Actions into a graphical Workflow that can be run again and again without human…
