i think those with cameras should start a flickr page of all the police officers they can snap pictures of, and tag them with their badge numbers. And when they threaten to take our cameras, and they beat us into submission, we sue.
ridiculous: http://thomashawk.com/2005/08/right-to-bear-cameras.html
from boingboing
Last month a federal judge awarded $35,000 in compensatory and [...]
The BugMeNot people are calling for an International Database Poisoning Day this November 13, and are collecting pledges to register an account with fake details at one of several major, registration-required news websites:
We, the undersigned, wish to demonstrate the pointless nature of forced web site registration schemes and the dubious demographic data they collect. On [...]
Awesome! BoingBoing writer Cory Doctorow, wrote a quickie, that mentions my Great Uncle William (Wolfe) F. Friedman. My dad is semi-fanatical about him. I guess you would be if you were named after him. My dad has many books published about him, and always likes to find more information about him.
Thanks Cory.
From the EFF, and BoingBoing.
California INDUCE bill bans the Internet
By Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow: An extremist California Senator called Kevin Murray has introduced a Californian version of last year’s Federal INDUCE Act, a law that proposed to make the very Internet itself illegal, for it bans producing, selling, offering, descirbing or building a network that [...]
from boingboing.
Thursday, January 13, 2005
Dollar bills used as canvases for art
They’re all but worthless in the internal currency market, but dollars bills have found a new purpose: as canvases for Kamiel Proost’s whimsical paintings. Link (Thanks, Rev.Dr. Spyder X!)
from boingboing…
Bill Gates: Free Culture advocates = Commies
I imagine my blog-mate Cory might have a few things to say about this when he’s online again. In an interview on news.com, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates described free culture advocates as a “modern-day sort of communists.” Well now.
Q: “In recent years, there’s been a [...]
http://www.boingboing.net/2004/10/11/mark_cuban_drops_100.html
from boing boing
“I’ve heard Peter Jaszi say on several occasions (and more eloquently), First Amendment is like fair use, technically invoked as a defense in court, but that
doesn’t stop us from talking about our *right* to free speech.”
http://www.boingboing.net/2004/09/09/fair_use_is_a_right_.html
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