January 2012
56 posts
December 2011
39 posts
Turns out MArvel is going to support SOPA
I’m fine with Disney being there, they are pretty much evil, but Marvel… that dog won’t hunt.
Marvel Entertainment: (212) 576-4000
Give ‘em your two bits
TSA confiscates cupcake, calls frosting a "gel" -... →
So if this is a potential bomb it was then disposed of by a professional bomb disposal team, yes? No? It was just tossed in a bin was it? Really? This is what passes for security does it?
“The MPAA believes SOPA’s censorship mandate will solve its problems, and...”
– Cory Doctorow
“As copyright maximalists pointed out regarding Jammie Thomas, bittorrent is a...”
– sagodur
My Pie in the Sky Job
My Pie in the Sky job when I was younger was to Teach and Write; as in be a Professor with a doctorate in English Literature and finally write the long form version of the Novel that I have been writing in my head for 3 decades.
Then I discovered that the maximum age difference I can tolerate between myself and students is about 5 years, after which pint anyone younger is “a little...
Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011 - Boing Boing →
RIP HITCH
“said by fluffy :
just set your MAC address to 00:DE:AD:BE:EF:00 at...”
– Really, Really? Doing this will break the network… don’t do this
“Jerry Sandusky’s defense lawyer tried to brush off reporters who wanted to...”
– http://boingboing.net/2011/12/14/sandusky-legal-sarcasm-fail.html
Breaking News: Feds Falsely Censor Popular Blog... →
“To those who might wish to “torrent” this video: look, I don’t really get the...”
– Louis CK, on his new special, Live at the Beacon, which is only available via his site. (via kaseyanderson) Amen. (via soupsoup)
Co-signed by Wil.
(via wilwheaton)
“Asked by Alzheimer Scotland to contribute to their Football Memories project, I...”
– If My Da’ didn’t like Kevin Bridges before, this quote will change his mind…
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“Our earth is degenerate in these latter days. There are signs that the world is...”
– Unknown, 2000 BC
London missed connections personals - Free London... →
Timmies in London should change their name to “Missd Love connection” Sheesh
“corporations are people and pizza is a vegetable .. only in America ..”
– Internets
“Their impact is huge and dominating,” said Tharwat al-Kharabawi, an Egyptian...”
– http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-east/influential-preachers-tv-stations-helped-hard-line-islamists-strong-showing-in-egypt-vote/2011/12/06/gIQAWZWBaO_story.html
“If torture produced national security, the regimes in the Middle East would be...”
“That would be the provision of the law, called the medical loss ratio, that...”
– Impressive
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“The problem is it creates the wrong incentives. Data is not like water or gas...”
– Hatta - http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2555322&cid=38236644