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• Favorited Canadian musicians hate the Canadian DMCA on Boing Boing
• Favorited Brit MP calls for photographers' rights on Boing Boing
• Favorited Home Depot customer detained by DC police for not showing receipt on Boing Boing
• Favorited Home Depot customer detained by DC police for not showing receipt on Boing Boing
• Favorited Haunting sf story podcast: "Edward Bear and the Very Long Walk" on Boing Boing
• Favorited Specialist publisher's "community pricing" lets the readers set the price on Boing Boing
• Favorited Warren Ellis: Freak Angels on Boing Boing
• Favorited Europe! Stop ISP spying, website blocking AND copyright extension with one call! on Boing Boing
• Favorited CANADIANS! Tomorrow is your best chance to fight the Canadian DMCA! Event in Calgary, national phone-in on Boing Boing
• Favorited DMCA idiocy slideshow: explaining the DMCA to info-civilians on Boing Boing
• Favorited BBC's iPlayer sold us out -- and then failed on Boing Boing
• Commented on EU set to extend copyright on sound recordings -- call your MEP!
  *sigh* not this again... Do these MEPs think that one day it won't get noticed until it's too late? It really seems as if Europe is run by a bunch of sneaky bastards who love nothing more than to screw...
• Commented on Minuscule: CGI bug videos
  And I am starting to really hate Yotube. Most of the movies I clicked all sported the message "We're sorry but this video isn't available anymore" or something. And I know it's total BS, because other people clicked on the...
• Commented on What do you call the shop on the corner?
  We call it 'sigarenboer' (literally cigar-farmer) or 'sigarenwinkel' (cigar-shop) The farmer part comes from the groceries-sellers and dairy-sellers on markets. They are called 'groenteboer' (vegetable farmer) and 'melkboer' (milkfarmer) respectively. At least that's what I've always been told. :)...
• Commented on Physical Graffiti -- return to the scene
  NYC is indeed real estate crazy. They even want to tear down the New York Statler Hotel (the one that gave Statler from that famous heckling Muppets duo his name) to make way for office space. (And yes I know,...
• Commented on Canadian Conservative Party pledge to reintroduce the DMCA if elected
  Jeez Louise! Even a tonne of bricks has more common sense than these bozos. Brick for senator! Who are these 'politicians' trying to fool? The word politician isn't even low enough to describe these US-Money-grubbing scumbags....
• Commented on US Customs: Sketching an SUV makes you a copyright infringer
  @26, singing border patrol... now there's a scary image. And humour in them? Everyone knows that border patrolmen and women have no humour. At least it's always advised never to make jokes. Especially not when you're asked questions like: "Did...
• Commented on Library celebrates Banned Books Week with window-display featuring volunteers reading banned works
  They ban books because of a few drawn nude female forms? What the heck?! I hate any kind moral police....
• Commented on MPAA spokeslawyers insist that they not be identified by name in reports from press-conference
  So by their reasoning, I could give a press conference, posing as a lawyer from the MPAA, and kindly request the press to withhold my name from the paper, and make all sorts of outrageous claims without being accountable. Handy!...
• Commented on Terry Pratchett's NATION: moving and sweet young adult novel about science, superstition and decency
  Oh and yeah, UK cover is much better. (it would've been cheaper to get the US version, but I really disliked that cover)...
• Commented on Terry Pratchett's NATION: moving and sweet young adult novel about science, superstition and decency
  Ordered my copy... I don't normally do this on a whim, but I trust Pratchett not to disappoint me. :)...
• Commented on Europeans: Write to your MEPs about telecoms amendment and protect yourself from surveillance and seizure
  That site Writetothem.com works fine and well for UK residents, but I live in The Netherlands, and I haven't got a clue which MEP to write to. That's the problem with EU politics IMO, so terribly opaque, that it is...
• Commented on Star Simpson, one year after Boston airport terror-scare: unedited BBtv interview transcript
  Getting arrested for wearing a bunch of blinking lights... Indeed, America is the 'Land of the free, home of the BRAVE!'...
• Commented on Palin's Yahoo email account hacked, contents posted to Wikileaks
  @sonofkevitivity, it's already done on international scale. Look up Echelon... BTW, anonymous is a group of people coming from all layers of the society (I'm not a member of it), and they all have different views on politics....
• Commented on Woman sues city after it orders her to remove a link to the local cops' website
  Race: white? 'caucasian' I can understand. Though I put questionmarks on that one, on a few of these suspects here: http://www.sheboyganpolice.com/wanted.html...
• Commented on Woman sues city after it orders her to remove a link to the local cops' website
  Why does the Sheboygan police website, this one I mean: http://www.sheboyganpolice.com/, show an article on the death of a police officer that happened on March 27th, 1937? I'm all for paying respect for officers who were killed in the line...
• Commented on Canadian man changes name to beat no-fly list
  I half expected to see "The name has been changed to protect the innocent"....
• Commented on Cape, goggles and XKCD
  @#1, those are his alien feelers. (or the door post)...
• Commented on Londoner videos his bullshit anti-terror stop-and-search
  @ #7 joelmichael Are you guilty until proven innocent, or innocent until proven guilty? Judging from this report, it's the former... Everyone is guilty of being a terrorist, unless you can prove that you are not, by letting your stuff...
• Commented on Decontextualized video comments become modern pieces of poetry.
  No quack. (for the TDWTF readers among us)...