Barlow didn’t realize that moneyed interests would treat open society as damage and route around it. (A nod to Kip Manley.)
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ISPs and Takedown Notices
August 8, 2006 – 10:41 pm
My friend Laura Quilter, a librarian and counsel at the Brennan Project on Free Expression at NYU, wants to talk to ISPs and ASPs who have received cease and desist letters or DMCA takedown notices: I’m currently doing a fair use/copyright research project on the impact of the DMCA and cease and desist letters on [...]
Saving Some Browser Tabs
June 18, 2006 – 9:27 pm
My gaming group’s starting up an Amber diceless campaign. It’s set in a Nazi-occupied England, and the player characters are part of the The Resistance. John Kim found an article on how the real Nazi’s turned contortions to keep Shakespeare off their banned books register. An interview with writer Barbara Ehrenreich, who has just started [...]
Clash Cover Day
June 12, 2006 – 8:55 pm
Cyn picked up a copy of Charlie Does Surf, an album of Clash covers, at the surf show at the Hotel Utah last weekend. I loved RNA’s version of Spanish Bombs. Today’s Salon Audiofile linked an Arabic cover of Rock the Casbah by Rachid Taha. And there’s a project to record covers of every track [...]
South Dakota Follow-up
March 22, 2006 – 11:32 pm
Following up on yesterday’s story on the Oglala Sioux’s plan to establish a Planned Parenthood clinic at Pine Ridge Reservation to circumvent South Dakota’s abortion ban: Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota are the most likely organization to run it if it’s established. If you’re looking for a place to donate money, [...]
From Tribal Casinos to Tribal Medicine
March 22, 2006 – 12:03 am
Ceilia Fire Thunder, the president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, responded to South Dakota’s law banning abortion by announcing that she’ll establish a Planned Parenthood clinic on the tribe’s Pine Ridge Reservation which sits inside of South Dakota. That got me thinking: The Oglala Sioux, like other tribes, run casinos. The casinos provide income and [...]
Giant Lizards from Another Star
December 29, 2005 – 4:50 pm
Updated: First, what is unchanged is that NESFA Press will publish a collection of Ken MacLeod’s short stories, poems, and essays, and that you should all buy a copy. I had said that the title comes from his pre-Iraq invasion comment: The rulers of the world should be regarded and resisted as if they were [...]
Rosa Parks
October 25, 2005 – 12:14 am
Rosa Parks, hero, died in her sleep last night. She was 92. If I had an eighth of the courage she did when confronting injustice, I would die a righteous person.
Fitzmas Bingo
October 19, 2005 – 7:41 pm
Fitzmas Bingo cards! Thank you Dori! If you don’t know what Fitzmas is, go read dKos.
Go Maureen!
October 12, 2005 – 11:45 pm
My friend Maureen represents Liberal Dems in Thursday’s council elections for Folkestone (UK). Good luck!
GUBU
October 11, 2005 – 11:23 pm
GUBU is an acronym standing for grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented. Surprisingly, this came about to describe an infamous event in Ireland, and not the current state of play in American politics.
Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea
October 9, 2005 – 6:28 pm
0.2 Reviewed Oct 9, 2005 by Bill Humphries product Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea 4/5 I just read Guy Delisle’s Pyongyang, a graphic memoir of the two months the French-Canadian animator spent in the North Korean capitol, supervising a team of animators at the Scientific and Educational Film Studio of Korea (when your production [...]
Defining Expendible
October 8, 2005 – 3:00 pm
[via Charlie Stross] Lunchtime conversation: Being #3 in Al-queda is like being a “creative vice president” at a Hollywood studio.
Late September 2005 Zeitgeist
September 28, 2005 – 10:53 pm
Over in the comments at Making Light, writer Elizabeth Lynn wins the trifecta: I want to sit on Trent Lott’s porch and watch Tom DeLay being devoured by a giant squid. Annotating links added.
Kim Stanley Robinson on Climate
September 14, 2005 – 10:53 pm
The Guardian interviews writer Kim Stanley Robinson. His current books are about a near future America still refusing to deal with climate change. In the climax of Forty Signs of Rain, the tidal surge from a hurricane floods the Nation’s Capital. It may get a little dire before we pull together, but I think when [...]