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The Evolution of Copyright Law

Here’s an incredibly important presentation that took place at the New York Public Library. This particular excerpt features internet champion, Lawrence Lessig talking about YouTube’s influence on the sharing of media.

The full program can be found here.

The Periodic Table of Typefaces

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This pleases me greatly. Thank you random web-designer homepage spawn point.

Link to larger view.

Chuck Norris Doesn’t Make Sense, He Murders Sense

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Wow, who ever thought that Walker, Texas Ranger would turn out to be a right wing nutjob? Everybody thought that? Oh…

Well fun readings in a recent editorial of his are to be had, anyway. My favorite part is where he alleges that the separation between Church and State doesn’t exist. Awesome!

Dr. Homer Manhattan

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Via cartoonist Dan Meth’s website.

I wish I could be more excited about the Watchmen debut this weekend. Unfortunately, I saw the movie 300, the only movie of note in director Zach Snyder’s repertoire. And 300 was a steaming pile of mastodon dung.

So, yeah… I won’t be standing in line this weekend. But I’m open to being happily surprised when it hits HBO.

Obama Holds Closed Door Meeting With Cheney

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Fun times via this Japanese toy website. (Thanks Nev)

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YouTube Attacks Its Emu Daddy (Again)

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Well, they did it again. YouTube has allowed another copyright attack on another genius Mep video.

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Cinco de Marcho Approaches

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It’s a new month, and you know what that means… Only four days to Cinco de Marcho! I was damn near sure I’d made this term up until I googled it and saw the myriad web pages already devoted to said fake holiday. There are too many silly thinkers on the internet, I tells ya.

Accounting Perils

The Meth Minute was one of my favorite internet-based series before cartoonist Dan Meth moved onto bigger and better things. Here’s a short piece relaying the dangers of doing your taxes while on psychedelics.

“Free” Credit Report Spoof

I think most people know that freecreditreport.com masquerades as a free services while signing you up for a credit card ding every month for a special “monitoring” plan. But few people sing about it…

Depression Era News Cycle

No wonder the economy is stagnating. Literally nothing is happening, everywhere. Here’s Fox New’s lead story today:

But I’ll have you know that I scooped ’em. I was reporting on this very topic over FIVE YEARS AGO, albeit in China.