March 2009
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“I expect nothing of man, and disown the race. The only folly is expecting what...”
– H.P. Lovecraft
I’m dreaming…
LTTP, but you can ask questions now on Tumblr?
Number of the Day
5, the number of sites to get from the regional court of Karlsruhe’s website to illegal content:
lgkarlsruhe.de ➔ brak.de ➔ anwalt24.de ➔ lawyers.com ➔ nytimes.com ➔ wikileaks.com
Global Sharing
Random thought - File Sharing is a lot like Global Warming:
It is happening and it won’t go away. And instead of discussing how to cope with the inevitable and how to change our lifes to adapt, we keep discussing if it really happens and how we can keep up unsustainable practices by trying to patch up reality temporarily.
We finally need to wake up and to think about the future and how we want...
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News from Germany
Okay, for this one, you will have to sit down. Really.
Here we go: The regional court for Karlsruhe, Germany decided today to affirm the lawfulness of a police raid, because the person being raided linked to a blog, which in turn linked to wikileaks and the danish censorship list there.
Here’s a translation of the court’s statement:
Due to the net-like structure of the WORLD WIDE WEB...
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“My tribe has grown into a single, impossibly vast social network… The problem, I...”
– Matt Harding, via Dancing To Connect To A Global Tribe : NPR
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News from the UK
A coalition of graphic artists, publishers and MPs have condemned Government plans to introduce a new set of laws policing cartoons of children, arguing that the current broad wording of the legislation could lead to the banning of hundreds of mainstream comic books.
This week Parliament will discuss a new Bill which will make it a criminal offence to possess cartoons depicting certain forms of...
copycats:
What A Wonderful World by Joey Ramone...
copycats:
Creep by Timo Räisänen originally by...
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sounds of my day, part 3: anonymous call center...
“Jesus saves. And loses all his money in an inflationary recession.”
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News from Germany
At the moment there are three people on trial in Germany for allegedly trying to commit arson on three army vehicles. They are tried for terrorism.
Yesterday, while a witness for the BKA (think: FBI) was heard, the authorship of a text for a radical left newsletter about the necessity of militant action was discussed. Asked if he had any informations about authorship the witness declined.
He did...
“Cognitive neuroscience can explain many magic techniques; this article proposes,...”
– What Can Magicians Teach Us about the Brain?: Scientific American
“I look around me,
But all I seem to see,
Is people going no where,
Expecting...”
– emo lyrics are emo. <3, nevertheless.
digitalyn:
(via emonk)
(I should be working right now, I know… )
emonk industries incorporated - destroying productivity since 1979.
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News from Germany
75% of ISPs agree to filter the internet voluntarily.
The rest will be forced to do so within a few months by an amendment to the “Telemediengesetz” that was drafted yesterday.
Afaik no major mainstream news outlet reported about the wikileaks.de raid. Only a handful tech news and digital rights news sites did.
Anyone has an idea, why the hurry now?
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News from Germany
Shortly after 9pm on Tuesday the 24th of March 2009, seven police officers in Dresden and four in Jena searched the homes of Theodor Reppe, who holds the domain registration for “wikileaks.de”, the German name for wikileaks. According to police documentation, the reason for the search was “distribution of pornographic material” and “discovery of evidence”....
Every time I listen to This American Life or A Life Well Wasted I get motivated to try to produce something similar - a radio short story/audio documentary. I still need a story I want to tell, but I think that would be something that I would have fun doing some time later this year.
(This is just a reminder to myself, not an announcement. When I find a story and do it, chances are that the thing...
Aspirin is 80 times more deadly than terrorism
According to this paper published in the Annals of Internal Medicine in 1997, NSAIDs are estimated to kill 7,965 people every year in the US and Canada. This is shocking when compared with the terrorism statistics published in the MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base, which reveal that only 3,576 people have died in North America as a result of terrorism since 1968 […]
(via and Andreas Bogk)
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News from Europe
Political deals are being done which remove users rights to distribute Internet content, impose conditions on Internet access and which could permit broadband providers to limit access to a specified list of websites or a premium paid-for Internet. Net neutrality, and millions of Internet businesses, are under threat if this goes ahead. - How the EU is bargaining away the Internet
“I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask...”
– H.P. Lovecraft
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Ada Lovelace Day
Today is Ada Lovelace Day. A while ago Suw Charman-Anderson had the idea to organize a day of writing about females in technology to create new role models for young girls to aspire to.
I think that’s a really good idea and it’s regrettable on many levels that for many pursing their calling is made harder, hard or even impossible just because of their gender and the accompanying...