Once again, completely stolen from Boing Boing: Unlike many nonsensical prejudices, it’s roughly possible to trace the root source of all this hostility, identify a locus classicus of Ikeaphobia: in this case, the vastly-overrated Fight Club. Ever since the film hit American screens, some years ago now, it’s been hip among would-be cynics of a […]
You know, when I read things like this, it makes me just sigh deeply and wonder where all the good people have gone. I think the Python’s had it right; “We don’t have a lord. We’re an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week…” […]
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Totally stolen from Fark. Stick figure warning signs
I don’t think HP had this in mind when they turn their CEO loose at CES. Good job HP! You finally start making products almost worth buying, then you give everyone a political reason not to buy those products. Bravo! HP users cry foul at death of the open PC
I never thought I’d have a reason to watch CNBC, but now I do. Dennis Miller is back on the air.
Just a gratuitous link since I’ve read all this stuff already, but Cory Doctorow blew me away when I first read Ownz0red on Salon. See the rest of this post for links to many of his stories. Cory operates on the Creative Commons license (thanks to a generous publisher) and his work is freely downloadable, […]
Who knew? A judge ruled that Monotori Kishi, a Japanese manga writer, violated a 1957 law against distributing obscene literature. The weird thing is that in Japan, a ton of the stuff on the streets is manga, and most of its borderline porn anyway. This is not something people go in the backroom for, it’s […]
Of all the things that scare me, this is right up there. The RIAA, defenders of one of the last citadels of whorish consumerism cum virtual monopoly, have taken to the streets with paramilitary elements in order to enforce, uhm, the rights of their artists. *cough* RIAA adopts paramilitary garb for parking lot bust Excuse […]
IT’S OBVIOUSLY TIME to start publishing the Journal of Critical Cyberspace Studies. Hey, maybe we already are.