October 2011
September 2011
Another Day, Another Story Of Police Lying... Only To Be Found Out Due To Video Of The Incident →
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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 Traffic Light Failure; Then Leave Without Handling Traffic →
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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 →
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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 Following, Calls It "Subscribe" →
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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 Monica →
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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 Strangle A Golden Goose →
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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 Ads, Would People Download Them? →
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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 →
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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 Published →
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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…
