I can't wade through all the comments, but I figured I've been a BB fan since it was in print, so I might as well join the hoards trying to boil the ocean. IBTL!

1. Censorship it's not.
2. Yes, BBfolk can do whatever they want with the site.
3. Just because something is not censorship and because BBfolk can do whatever they want with the site doesn't mean an action should be shielded from criticism.

IMO, unpublishing blog posts, unless the posts presented unwarranted legal exposure, is antithetical to the Spirit of Blog. (If there is such a thing.)

Someone way up there in this thread said that having a link constituted endorsement and removing the link was a way to retract endorsement.

That's akin to the fundies who think that if the government legalizes something, they're endorsing it.

But here's what this reveals, and why the Spirit of Blog is B.S.:

1. Everyone's petty.
2. Everyone's out to create and maintain their reputations, if not make a buck.
3. No one is immune to this.
4. Everyone's shocked when these truths are revealed.

No, BB is not a wonderful happy place of idealism and extended virtual family.

It's run by people promoting themselves and their ideas, and if they believe those ends are best suited by deleting old posts, they'll delete them.

Nothing hating in what I said -- I do think that the reaction here does indicate that maybe the BBfolk should ask -- are we a business that generates traffic and ad revenue? Are we a community forum? How are we different from other nifty-cool sites? How do we want to interact with our readers? Are our readers our customers or our product?

-W-

No tie to Jack Black the actor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Black_(grooming)

Fun, but...

1. You'll never get away with these in an airport.
2. If someone's actually WATCHING the camera, you'll become a target PDQ.

This smacks a bit of prior restraint.

Just FYI -- I visited the site, went to the products page for their radios, and and Kaspsersky warned:

detected: Trojan program Packed.JS.Agent.d URL:[censored so people don't click on it]

Wt -- thght h ws Scntlgst!

If a student's class notes are derivative works of a copyrighted lecture, then unless the students had a license to create a derivative work wouldn't they be in violation of the law for taking notes in the first place?

Yoda there looks a little too much like Gene Rayburn for my comfort...

Combine this with some freeze-dried precooked eggs and bacon, and you've got breakfast.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000M7Z2OK

And another thing -- the guy that is credited here is still around.

Much more detailed discussion here:

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/tv/colormation

His resume is amazing.

I suspect this was to be a combination of the Artiscope process and the automated coloring process Maurer worked out with Technicolor around the same time.

It is unsettling, but it still looks expensive. This kind of thinking but cheaper, led to the also-unsettling Clutch Cargo. (The same technique was picked up by Conan O'Brian's writers.)

This guy, Daniel Carr, has been doing coin designs for a long time, and designed the reverse of the New York and Rhode Island US quarter coin.

http://www.designscomputed.com/coins/resume.html

He also does software for this kind of thing.

http://www.designscomputed.com/vs3d/

I do like the designs for the Amero better than what we generally have now in circulation.