Google adds “paywall” support to its News service
This must be a response, more or less, to Rupert Murdoch’s views on free content destroying the publishing industry.
[via:HS/Piilakso]
5 December 2009
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10 July 2009
Medieval fucktards of the week: Irish parliament passes blasphemy law
“…the maximum fine for blasphemy will be [...] €25,000.”
More info here.
[via:Paaki]
9 July 2009
Dave Grohl, Josh Homme and John Paul Jones form supergroup
“The frontmen of Foo Fighters and Queens of the Stone Age have joined with Led Zeppelin’s bassist to form a secret rock group.”
Sweet shit stained Jesus. Do want.
6 July 2009
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28 November 2008
Every mention of this story is a free ad for Amazon.
16 August 2008
Crime-ridden Arkansas town expands 24-hour curfew
“As far as I’m concerned, at 3 o’clock in the morning, nobody has any business being on the street, except the law,” Councilman Eugene “Red” Johnson said. “Anyone out at 3 o’clock shouldn’t be out on the street, unless you’re going to the hospital.”
[via:mummila]
GITMO simulation at Coney Island amusement park
“If you climb up a few cinderblock steps to the small window, you can look through the bars at a scene meant to invoke a Guantánamo Bay interrogation. A lifesize figure in a dark sweatshirt, the hood drawn low over his face, leans over another figure in an orange jumpsuit, his face covered by a towel and his body strapped down on a tilted surface.”
[via:Metafilter]
14 August 2008
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9 August 2008
Actor Robbie Coltrane’s face used on NZ wanted poster
“Robbie Coltrane is not the burglar, but imagine him aged 16 with lank greasy hair and you have the picture”
[via:wordepletion]
5 August 2008
Free Culture Showcase to be included on Ubuntu disc images
“For the next release of Ubuntu we want to [...] show off some free culture artists by putting their media on millions of Ubuntu systems around the world. [...] The deadline for submissions is 4th September 2008.”
[via:mummila]