Y'know what? This is a sad day for copyright law.  I'm not saying that piracy is necessarily ok, or that creators shouldn't be paid for their content. But the laws that exist are severely biased, almost to the point of being draconic. In this case, nobody wins.

Now, I'm aware that I've mentioned my interest in the American presidential election in passing (mostly in my repeated references to the site I'm about to link), but this cannot be allowed to pass without comment. The link is to the Carpetbagger Report, but includes a posting of a press conference McCain has given, in which he says, I kid you not ( Read more... )

I suppose this is mostly for my own memory-aid, but since I want to stop Firefox from eating the hell out of my RAM....

Woman kills husband with folding couch - Need I say more?

RIAA ups the ACTA ante - Some exerts from from the RIAA's contribution on what ACTA should include. Fuckin' scary.

New Centrino chip to feature city-wide wireless - Could be ( Read more... )

Ok, y'know what? I was going to do quite the post on this, but I just can't. Net neutrality is something I'm very much in favour of, and every time I think about this it just pisses me off. So here's a link-post.

ACTA - Just what it is. Wikipedia know's all.

A talking points document posted on wikileaks

A little information from IP Justice

A little ( Read more... )

This makes me very, very happy.

So, this is pretty interesting. Apparently, someone has "found"(it was hiding in a private collection) a new Dead Sea Scroll, written on a stone tablet. Dated by at least one person to the late first century B.C., with another analysis forthcoming, and concerning a messiah who would rise from the grave after three days. Kinda cool, and creating ( Read more... )

So, I know I haven't been posting much, but there is good reason. I'm working on three different posts, bigger ones. One's about OK Go!'s album Oh No, and another is on SquareEnix's Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions. The third, and by far most significant at this point, is a link-heavy finger-breaker on the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting ( Read more... )

To those of you who know me, you know me to be a spiteful and vindictive person when pissed off. This article mentions in it's last line a guy who pissed me off years ago, to a degree that I'm still pissed at him. Because of this slimy, half-coherent sack of donkey-rimming shit, I have a fake tooth. Do you know how annoying those things are? You ( Read more... )

WASP Injection Knife - Designed for use by divers to protect themselves against sharks and such, it injects the subject with gas compressed at 850psi. This, my friends, is both vicious and sexy, and I want one.

Dubai "shape-shifting skyscraper unveiled" - This is kinda cool. Built modularly, each floor will rotate independently, powered by wind ( Read more... )

So, the national Liberal Party (in Canada, for you internationals) has just announced it's new tax plan and the cornerstone of their platform in the next election: a carbon tax. This is to be a revenue-neutral, middle- and lower-class friendly, and long-term fiscal plan to both encourage "green" spending and consumption habits, and steer Canada ( Read more... )