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Stick Figure Warning Signs
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Author: ryanvis
Totally stolen from Fark. Stick figure warning signs
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Follow-up to HP entry
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Author: ryanvis
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
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Dennis Miller is back!
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Author: ryanvis
I never thought I’d have a reason to watch CNBC, but now I do. Dennis Miller is back on the air.
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Stories by Cory Doctorow
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Author: ryanvis
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, […]
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Apparently, Manga is Porn in Japan; Who Knew?
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Author: ryanvis
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 […]
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Hello Comrade, I am from the KG… er RIAA
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Author: ryanvis
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 […]
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Journal of Critical Cyberspace Studies?
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Author: ryanvis
IT’S OBVIOUSLY TIME to start publishing the Journal of Critical Cyberspace Studies. Hey, maybe we already are.
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Wine.com
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A while back, you could order wine from Wine.com and have it shipped right to you. This is an awesome thing. Then, politics got in the way, and you couldn’t ship to Michigan. But now…. … they’re back! We think… we haven’t actually tried to order yet, but the website states that they will, in […]
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Actors' politics pollute 'Ring'
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Author: ryanvis
Saw this piece on USATODAY at lunch… “If you want to send a message, call Western Union,” said Hollywood pioneer Samuel Goldwyn to filmmakers and stars who sought to use their movie projects to advance some political agenda. Can anyone pinpoint the moment in Hollywood (or New York, for that matter), when celebrities thought that […]
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Pet adoptions
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Author: ryanvis
Animal shelters must deal with the same apartment complexes over and over and over. Why is it that they can’t say, oh I don’t know, make a LIST of the places that accepts what pets and which ones don’t. I can’t believe we have to wait until Monday for them to verify that our apartments […]