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Newt's Nudes: Renaissance paintings with Newt Gingrich's head London cops apologise to young photographer who was told that shooting Armed Forces Day parade was "anti-social," "gay," "stupid" and an offense under the Terrorism Act Kim Jong-Il is dead Phoenix's Street of Dreams: The Visual Extravaganza that was Van Buren CC-licensed, Dickens-based, Pastifarian Christmas Carol kids' special Lamar Smith is a cheap date How SOPA will break DNS RIAA and DHS are hives of depraved piracy Head MPAA shill reduced to outright lies in bid to make the case for SOPA Newt's Nudes: Renaissance paintings with Newt Gingrich's head
By Dean Putney on Dec 19, 2011 09:59 am Newt's Nudes imagines a world where Newt Gingrich attends decadent feasts, consoles distressed Biblical characters, and occasionally, as a cherub, saucily peers down on amply-bosomed maidens. Perhaps not that far off from real life! Newt's Nudes Thanks, pjtrimble!
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 19, 2011 05:33 am Back in 2010, I blogged the video of Jules Mattsson, a 15-year-old freelance photographer who was stopped by police while shooting an Armed Forces Day parade in London. The police inspector took down his details, told him it was an offense under the Terrorism Act to take pictures of soldiers, told him that the police ...
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By Dean Putney on Dec 19, 2011 03:03 am North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has died, CNN reports. And with him dies a great novelty Tumblog. I think I just heard every venture capital firm fire up their private jets. North Korean leader Kim Jong Il dead, state TV reports - CNN
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By Mark Frauenfelder on Dec 19, 2011 02:06 am The Modern Phoenix website has a great article about the history of Van Buren Street, "the former glory of Phoenix's brightest thoroughfare that served as the 'Eastern Gateway' to the city." I liked the many washed-out old photos of hotels and other long-gone businesses in the article. Phoenix billed itself as the "Motel Capital of ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 18, 2011 06:49 pm Robbo sez, Puppets, songs, the Flying Spaghetti Monster and Charles Dickens - all that and more are in our internet video holiday special: "Ruffus The Dog's Christmas Carol". Not just for kids, it's an unusual half-hour take on Dickens's classic - released under a Creative Commons License. Funded partly through IndieGoGo and a lot of ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 18, 2011 06:06 pm How much has it cost the entertainment industry to convince Rep Lamar Smith to introduce and ram through SOPA, which will cost the American economy billions, which will nuke the games, microprocessor, search, and other high tech companies in his Texas district? A mere $50K a year for 10 years. You know, it's one thing ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 18, 2011 06:01 pm In case you were trying to figure out how broken the Internet will be if SOPA passes, have a look at this article and this article from DynDNS, one of the world's leading DNS providers. (Thanks, Adam!)
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 18, 2011 04:08 pm TorrentFreak continues its prolonged spelunk through the database compiled by YouHaveDownloaded, a list of participants in infringing BitTorrent swarms, indexed by IP address. Today, it's a look at what's been downloaded by the IP blocks controlled by the RIAA (who have advocated that ISPs should be required to disconnect customers whose networks are used in ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Dec 18, 2011 01:04 pm MPAA Chairman Chris Dodd is making the rounds in DC, trying to gin up support for the Stop Online Piracy Act, which establishes a national censorship regime in which whole websites can be blocked in the US if the MPAA objects to them. The former senator turned shill has run out of plausible arguments in ...
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