Posted in News on May 31st, 2006
(Digital Journalist) Let us first pose a question: Is it folly to nominate 100 photographs as having been influential to world events, or is this a valid historic inquiry? LIFE will, here and [...]
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Posted in Technology on May 31st, 2006
In their native Sweden, ThePirateBay.org enjoyed a level of immunity from copyright prosecution rarely seen in the file-sharing world. Often defiant in the face of those wishing to enforce their intellectual property rights, ThePirateBay.org would go on to become one of the premier BitTorrent indexing and tracking sites.
Mystech: Argh matey, we’ll miss you. Flying [...]
Posted in 50 Classics on May 30th, 2006
Initially denied burial on church ground for his tireless criticism, Voltaire is interred in the hearts of philosophers, satirists and civil reformers. During the course of my 50 Classics project I got re-familiarize myself with one of the works that earned him this position; Candide, or Optimism. The novel has its roots in Voltaire’s extreme [...]
(The Independant) Federal authorities are actively investigating dozens of American television stations for broadcasting items produced by the Bush administration and major corporations, and passing them off as normal news. Some of the fake news segments talked up success in the war in Iraq, or promoted the companies’ products. Investigators from the Federal Communications Commission [...]
(Associated Press) President Bush stepped into the Justice Department’s constitutional confrontation with Congress on Thursday and ordered that documents seized in an FBI raid on a congressman’s office be sealed for 45 days. The president directed that no one involved in the investigation have access to the documents taken last weekend from the office of [...]
Posted in 50 Classics on May 25th, 2006
Just polished off Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad in my ongoing 50 Classics project and I have to admit I’m losing steam. It’s awfully hard to read about the dark wild places of the world and not want to put down your reading list and actually go somewhere; not that I want to go [...]
Posted in Podcasting on May 25th, 2006
So there I am looking for new and interesting ways to keep my iPod pegged at 90% full when I came across some gamer podcasts. I had to do a double take at the title of this one but something about it clicked in my head. After reading more I discovered it was by [...]
Posted in Journal on May 24th, 2006
These are highly opinionated. I assure you that they were not delivered to me on a set of stone (or gold) tablets. No vegetation caught on fire during the course of their construction and they are backed by no legistlative body that I am aware of. They may indeed be published somewhere obscure or [...]
Posted in Environment on May 23rd, 2006
(CMS) In Stratford, in the farthest reaches of East London, a band of guerrillas has taken over a plot of land. It’s the wrong side of 11 p.m. on a hot, sticky night, the air heavy with rain that refuses to fall. Passersby – some full of a night of revelry, others only now dragging [...]
Posted in Journal on May 22nd, 2006
Sometimes the secrets of the universe can be held inside a baked cookie. My inner Verruchio is highly pleased with last night’s fortune cookie:
