Penguin movie disproves evolution?
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Hilton Hacking Techno Teen Sentenced
No, it wasn’t Nicole Richie who hacked Paris Hilton’s Sidekick — the snooty phone-organizer-camera device that stores videos, photos and other data on T-Mobile’s central computer servers — and posted her revealing photos and celebrity phone numbers on the Internet. The culprit wasn’t Hilton’s estranged best pal and co-star of …
Read More »The new Guardian: what do you think?
It seems to be going upmarket, or at least holding its ground, which can only be a good thing.
Read More »Future of Music Coalition Policy Summit, Sept 11-13
This is big time stuff: the Future of Music Policy Summit, now in its fifth year, brings top-notch experts together with musicians, attorneys, advocates and policymakers to explore emerging music/technology issues through panels, guest speakers and robust debate, September 11-13 at George Washington University in Washington, DC. Over the course …
Read More »Free Speech
...the idea of free speech has to be relieved of its iconic status.
Read More »Do You Mash?
If you don't listen to Bush singing "Imagine", the terrorists have won.
Read More »Friday Femmes Fatales No 22
Where are all the female bloggers? Here, in my weekly "top ten" posts.
Read More »Needed Katrina Humor, Perspectives
I haven’t looked forward to a television show as much as I looked forward to Jon Stewart’s take on Katrina, which ran last night. And wow, it was perfect. Show excerpts, courtesy of the Daily Kos “Now, for you people who are saying “Well, stop pointing fingers at the president…left-wing…the …
Read More »“Censored news” and real news
Every year Project Censored puts out a list of what it considers the most censored important news stories of the year. And apparently I’m not alone in wondering just how a story can be censored when the size of the media changes literally each time someone else starts a blog. …
Read More »Katrina – Sunday/Monday Media Critique
Jack Shafer of Slate and Ann Gerhart of the Washington Post are doing excellent work amid this chaos.
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