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Irish journalist humiliates EuroBank technocrat who won't stop ducking hard questions Happy birthday to us Satellite photo of Costa Concordia shipwreck John Cale's cover of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah Puppets re-enact no-cameras-allowed corruption trial on the nightly news Chris Dodd to Obama: Hollywood will stop supporting you because you were soft on SOPA and PIPA SOPA/PIPA mashup: how much Hollywood money did your lawmaker take? Name and shame with fellow voters Irish journalist humiliates EuroBank technocrat who won't stop ducking hard questions
By Cory Doctorow on Jan 22, 2012 09:12 am In this video from a European Central Bank press-conference in Ireland, journalist Vincent Browne demands that the ECB representative explain why the ECB required the Irish people to bail out a bank's uninsured creditors. The bureaucrat mouths bland reassurances, then asserts (despite all appearances to the contrary) that the question has been resolved. Browne doesn't ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 22, 2012 06:23 am Boing Boing's blog incarnation is 12 today!
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By David Pescovitz on Jan 22, 2012 04:47 am From DigitalGlobe, this striking satellite image of the Costa Concordia shipwreck off Giglio, Italy.
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By David Pescovitz on Jan 22, 2012 12:08 am Avant-garde hero John Cale performs his cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" in 1992. Cale's version is available on the highly-recommended multi-artist cover album, "Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Fan," from 1991. And yes, perhaps you also heard it in Shrek.
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 21, 2012 03:44 pm Channel 19 in Akron, Ohio was disappointed that it wouldn't be allowed to take cameras into the corruption trial of Jimmy Dimora, a former county commissioner. But when life gives you SARS, you make sarsaparilla: they bring the courtroom proceeding to their viewers' TV sets by re-enacting them with puppets. As Lowering the Bar notes, ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 21, 2012 02:33 pm Former Senator Chris Dodd, now head of the MPAA, is pissed at Obama. He's threatened to withhold entertainment lobbyist money from Obama's upcoming re-election war chest over the administration's lack of support for SOPA and PIPA. As an ex-Senator, Dodd is prohibited from directly lobbying Congress for a couple more years, and some insiders tell ...
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By Cory Doctorow on Jan 21, 2012 01:24 pm With PIPA off the legislative calendar and SOPA paused, this tool may seem a bit redundant, but it's a nice piece of advocacy work. Creator Jonathan Vanasco sez, "I tossed together a mashup over a few hours while sick on the couch. It uses the data from Propublica and SunlightLabs to create very-shareable profile pages ...
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