BBgadgets points out this lovely Obama chia pet.
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Now for something completely different
Posted in advertising, internet, science, tagged chia pet, Obama on January 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
That’s Not How The Internet Works, Part II
Posted in advertising, copyright, dissent, economics, education, ethics, fair use, free speech, internet, media, public domain on February 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On Friday, a judge in California issued an order to remove the DNS listing for the Wikileaks server. Wikileaks is a public internet site that functions on the wiki model, where any person can post content. Wikileaks purported to specialize in hosting incriminating documents that could do damage to their owners if they became public [...]
Sure, Tell Yourself That It’s The Ads
Posted in advertising, dissent, economics, education, free speech, internet, media, technology, tagged adblock, Facebook, Market Saturation, MySpace on February 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Never mind that MySpace is stupid, and that Facebook is for people who don’t have real websites. And never mind that if you don’t like ads on the internet, YOU CAN BLOCK THEM. Ad-blocking is not new or surprising. I’ve been using it on every computer we own for at least the past six years. [...]
The Recession Started While You Weren’t Looking
Posted in advertising, economics, education, tagged DJIA, recession, Stock Market on January 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Dow closed down 180 230 points today. The Dow is down over 1000 points (7.6%) over the last month.
Sad Empty Patches Where Voters Once Stood
Posted in advertising, black box voting, constitution, education, fair use, free speech, internet, media, politics on January 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Watch the Slate video from New Hampshire (Sorry about the ad). Posted with no comment.
Assault And Battery
Posted in advertising, criminal law, economics, ethics, media, torts, tv, tagged O'Reilly on January 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I bet Crazy Bill can just throw money at this problem until it goes away, like he did with that falafel thing.
The incident was triggered when O’Reilly–with a Fox News crew shooting–was screaming at Obama National Trip Director Marvin Nicholson “Move” so he could get Obama’s attention, according to several eyewitnesses. “O’Reilly was yelling at [...]
(Here’s Hoping That) The Emotional Center Cannot Hold
Posted in advertising, dissent, economics, ethics, free speech, hypocrisy, internet, media, private press, public domain, technology, tv, tagged GE, NBC, net neutrality, tv news is crap, Wired on January 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is a gripping account of what goes wrong when the reporting of public news is made into a private corporate profit center. It’s long, and it’s worth the read, because it goes a long way towards explaining what is wrong with the institution of TV news in this country:
This was one in a series [...]
