October 2009
Guy in Egypt orders "artificial hymen... →
News reports earlier this month created a global stir around an odd “made in China” product marketed to the Middle East - cheap artificial hymens. They’re intended for use by brides…
RT @NiemanLab: Awesome, important: State court rules that “metadata attached to public records is itself a public record” http://tr.im/DA63
RT @msfleck: Schwarzenegger’s F-you is kind of hilarious: http://bit.ly/4oGjOT
How Many People Are In Space Right Now? →
Warner Bros. Shuts Down Harry Potter Themed Dinner... →
Last month, in discussing “derivative works” on the IP Colloquium podcast, the General Counsel of Warner Bros. studios, Jeremy Williams, talked up how Warner Bros. was really careful in not just…
Google Taken To Court To Explain Why It Shut Down... →
Paul Alan Levy writes “Last month, you wrote about the travesty perpetrated by Rocky Mountain Bank when it sued Google to shut down the gmail account of a Google customer to whom the bank had…
Seriously no one on Twitter understands @ replies. Like 1 in 10 of the @ replies I get are intended for me.
Some thoughts on Twitter vs. Facebook Status... →
The functional act of constructing a tweet or a status update is very similar. Produce text in roughly 140 characters or less inside a single line text box and click a button. Voila! Even the stream…
OAuth Sandbox →
Some thoughts on Twitter vs. Facebook Status... →
The functional act of constructing a tweet or a status update is very similar. Produce text in roughly 140 characters or less inside a single line text box and click a button. Voila! Even the stream…
“Let me addressing education specifically for a moment. Rather than addressing...”
– apophenia: teaching, nursing, and second wave feminism
Prepaid Providers Seek to Put Locks On Your Phone... →
As the deadline nears for a decision from the Copyright Office on EFF’s request for a renewal of the 2006 exemption from DMCA liability for handset unlocking, prepaid phone companies have opened a…
RT @doctorow: Every time I hear someone explain how American health can’t be fixed with European systems, I assume (cont) http://tl.gd/oeri
Announcing Refraction →
One of the things I’ve always liked least about building web applications is dealing with mod_rewrite. It’s a very useful feature, but it’s quirky and the config languages for webservers are…
DWI in motorized easy chair →
Dennis LeRoy, 62, of Proctor, Minnesota, pled guilty to driving his tricked-out, motorized easy chair while drunk. After leaving a bar where he had at least eight beers, LeRoy smashed…
Font Squirrel | Handpicked free fonts for graphic... →
GoodDoop →
[from armchair_anarchist] Testosterone tumbled in... →
“Female study participants showed no significant change in their testosterone levels before and after the returns came in. The men who participated in the study would normally show a slight…
DWI in motorized easy chair →
Dennis LeRoy, 62, of Proctor, Minnesota, pled guilty to driving his tricked-out, motorized easy chair while drunk. After leaving a bar where he had at least eight beers, LeRoy smashed…
Timewarp: How your brain creates the fourth... →
“Time,” says Eagleman, “is much weirder than we think it is.”
RT @warrenellis: Man killed by the bear he forced to wear ice-skates. Really, no-one could see that coming? ON ICE? http://bit.ly/Z3Pxz
“Our industry has collectively taught average people over the last few decades...”
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Marco.org - Why hasn’t Vista sold well?
Extremists More Willing To Share Their Opinions,... →
Voting machine source-code leak shows... →
Sequouia, a company that makes many of the electronic voting machines used in the US and elsewhere, has inadvertently leaked much of the secret source-code that powers its systems. The first cut at…
Fear of Upgrades →
Marco Arment: Our industry has collectively taught average people over the last few decades that computers should be feared and are always a single misstep from breaking. We’ve trained them to…
[from warrenellis] Balloon boy's father 'wanted TV... →
“Richard Heene, the man suspected of the alleged “balloon boy” hoax, was driven by a conviction that the world will come to a cataclysmic end in 2012, according to a friend.” …
Trollop →
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Voting machine source-code leak shows... →
Sequouia, a company that makes many of the electronic voting machines used in the US and elsewhere, has inadvertently leaked much of the secret source-code that powers its systems. The first cut at…
Monster Madness: Monster Energy Drink's Hired... →
We’ve recently covered how beverage company Hansen’s hired a company called Continental Enterprises, who has a long history of abusing trademark law for profit (i.e., getting big companies to allow…
AT&T Asks Employees To Hide AT&T... →
We’ve been having some discussions lately about the FTC’s new guidelines for “disclosure,” and some of our regular critics have been gleefully insisting that the reason I don’t like those rules is…
Balloon boy: Heene family ‘facing criminal... →
Along with the unfortunate typo above is the article about the “balloon boy” family facing charges for their little prank.
An enormous land and air rescue effort was launched on Thursday as…
Rabblerousers: Slow Food shaman Michael Pollan... →
Slow Food shaman Michael Pollan was supposed to give one of his lectures at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo today, but a big agribusiness (Harris Ranch Beef Co.) threatened to pull donations to…
has_many :bugs, :through => :rails: Rails... →
‘Defamatory, Obscene and Vicious’ – Catholics Want... →
American Catholics have condemned comedians Penn & Teller for launching the most ‘defamatory, obscene and vicious’ attack on the church ever screened on TV.
The Catholic League pressure group…
“So, once again, with feeling, it’s worth reminding people that your...”
– Once Again, Blocking Ads And Automating Clicks Isn’t ‘Stealing’ | Techdirt