Topic: HOLLYWALD - on March 4, 2009 at 1:19:00 PM CET
Mindfuck Movies
Note: The text of this essay contains no spoilers, but watch the clips at your own peril.
There’s a certain brand of movie that I most enjoy. Some people call them “Puzzle Movies.” Others call them “Brain Burners.” Each has, at some point or another, been referred to as “that flick I watched while I was baked out of my mind.”
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Topic: WERBUNG - on March 4, 2009 at 1:18:00 PM CET
New guidelines on behavioural ads
The online advertising industry has launched a set of guidelines for a genre of adverts that have been causing controversy.
The code of practice drawn up by the Internet Advertising Bureau looks specifically at behavioural advertising.
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Topic: Green - on March 4, 2009 at 1:15:00 PM CET
Cycling into the Future: 15 Crazy Concept Bicycles
Since bicycles work pretty flawlessly as it is, you might wonder just why we need crazy modifications like spokeless wheels and the ability to ride sideways. Innovation never ceases, and as a result we’ve been treated to a wild assortment of ideas from giant amphibious contraptions to bikes that fold up into backpacks. Some of these 15 concept bikes address issues like cost, portability and adaptability and others are just plain strange.
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Topic: FUN - on March 4, 2009 at 12:25:00 PM CET
Petaminx Dodecahedral Puzzle Would Make Ernő Rubik Cry
I think “whoa!” is the only response you can really have when you first see this amazing dodecahedral puzzle created by Jason Smith of PuzzleForge.com. While the original design was created by Andrew Cormier, the completed Petaminx puzzle you see above was cast and hand-assembled by Jason, who clearly has the patience of a saint.
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Topic: WEB - on March 4, 2009 at 12:23:00 PM CET
The SSD Project
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has created this Surveillance Self-Defense site to educate the American public about the law and technology of government surveillance in the United States, providing the information and tools necessary to evaluate the threat of surveillance and take appropriate steps to defend against it.
Surveillance Self-Defense (SSD) exists to answer two main questions: What can the government legally do to spy on your computer data and communications? And what can you legally do to protect yourself against such spying?
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on March 4, 2009 at 12:20:00 PM CET
Hollywood-Funded Study Concludes Piracy Fosters Terrorism
Here's a snippet from Film Piracy, Organized Crime, and Terrorism:
Moreover, three of the documented cases provide clear evidence that terrorist groups have used the proceeds of film piracy to finance their activities. While caution must be exercised in drawing broad conclusions from limited evidence, further investigation is a timely imperative. These cases, combined with established evidence for the broader category of counterfeiting-terrorism connections, are highly suggestive that intellectual-property theft — a low-risk, high-profit enterprise — is attractive not only to organized crime, but also to terrorists, particularly opportunistic members of local terrorist cells.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on March 4, 2009 at 12:18:00 PM CET
Pirate Bay Trial Ends; Verdict Due April 17
The Pirate Bay trial wrapped up here Tuesday amid a media circus as attorneys for the four accused founders of the world's most notorious BitTorrent tracker proclaimed their clients' innocence to charges of facilitating copyright infringement.
One of the attorneys declared the 2-week trial a mockery.
"These kinds of abstract case are not supposed to be brought to the court at all," attorney Per E. Samuelson said during his argument. "The prosecutor has not managed to keep calm in light of the enormous pressure and lobbying from record and film companies."
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Topic: POLITIK - on March 4, 2009 at 12:15:00 PM CET
Obama unseals Bush-era wiretap memos
The Bush administration secretly concluded after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that it had the authority to wiretap the Internet and telephone calls with virtually no limitations, restrict free speech, and use the U.S. military domestically against suspected terrorists.
Those legal opinions came in a series of memorandums written by U.S. Department of Justice lawyers, including deputy assistant attorney general John Yoo, which were disclosed by the Obama administration on Monday.
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