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Blocked In China…
As widely reported since a few days, Youtube, Blogspot, Tumblr, Livejournal, Xanga, Wordpress, Friendfeed, Flickr, Microsoft’s Live.com, the new MS Bing.com and Twitter too, of course are blocked in China. But you can still update Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed and many other social networks at once with http://ping.fm (works from [...]
Continue reading...SURVEY: UK Has World’s Worst Copyright Laws - “By Far”
Monday, April 20, 2009
Rated “ the worst, by far’” in a survey of 16 countries, beating the emerging economies of both Thailand and Argentina to last place, say Consumer Focus and the Open Rights Group. According to Consumer Focus, a consumer advocate group, and the Open Rights Group, a grassroots technology organization, the [...]
Continue reading...INTERNET CENSORSHIP IMMINENT?
Sunday, November 2, 2008
The Voice of the White House - Will US be adopting Chinese-style censorship TBRNews.org 30 Oct 2008 Washington, D.C.: “Even as the Bush righwingers are smelling defeat in the air, they are allying themselves with American law enforcement agencies in an attempt to completely censor and control the Internet usage and reception [...]
Continue reading...Internet Censorship Comes to Oz
Thursday, October 30, 2008
According to the Aussie Herald Sun: AUSTRALIA will join China in implementing mandatory censoring of the internet under plans put forward by the Federal Government. The revelations emerge as US tech giants Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, and a coalition of human rights and other groups unveiled a code of conduct aimed at [...]
Continue reading...Lyrics for Divided States of America by Mood of Defiance
Sunday, October 26, 2008
In case you don’t know about XM Radio removing punk rock from their selection of over 200 channels, read my previous blog. Then, contact XM radio and Sirius and let them know you demand your rights as an American citizen and you take ... Read the rest here: Lyrics for Divided States [...]
Continue reading...Sirius and XM Satellite Radio Offer Dual Programming
Saturday, October 25, 2008
XM subscribers are being offered the Best of Sirius package for an additional cost of $4 per month. The Best Sirius channels the companies have magnanimously selected? Two channels of Howard Stern; NFL games and NFL talk; NASCAR races ... Continue here: Sirius and XM Satellite Radio Offer Dual Programming
Continue reading...Stolen lawn mowers and Chinese rage against Microsoft
Thursday, October 23, 2008
The cartoon above, from china.com.cn, shows a big hand in the sky with the Microsoft Windows logo holding a sword reading, “Attacking pirated software.” The thief running away at the bottom reads, “Sellers of pirated software.” Of course the guy in the chair is the “innocent” user. Right. The article that accompanies the cartoon, suggests that Chinese users [...]
Continue reading...Over 200 Channels and No Punk Rock - Where Oh Where Has My Fungus …
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
As of September 16, there is not one single punk rock channel on all of XM radio . XM merged with Sirius Radio earlier this year. The satellite giants reach a combined audience of 17 million listeners and offer a choice between 200+ ... Continue here: Over 200 Channels and [...]
Continue reading...Rising Star on the two versions of No More Heroes: Desperate Struggle
Monday, October 13, 2008
Filed under: News, Imports. Rising Star Games, Marvelous Entertainment's European arm, gave a statement to Electronic Theatre about the dual-version European release of No More Heroes: Desperate Struggle announced by Suda51. ... More here: Rising Star on the two versions of No More Heroes: Desperate Struggle
Continue reading...Capturing Bodies
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Before I leave the room, tired and ready to go home, I look back in after Ihave turned the lights off. The 8 cameras positioned all around the room, on the walls and in the ceiling grid splay their red light across the floor, the computers, the chairs, staying on, always capturing, always seeing. [...]
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Tuesday, June 2, 2009
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