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Canada's DMCA Minister weasels and fumbles when asked about his copyright plans

May 16, 2008 12:28am

Dude, he's gonna have entire /plants/ devoted to rewriting Canada's copyright laws? Who will build the plants? Will he restructure existing plants? Or has he somehow enslaved a race of sentient flora? Canadian politics. Wow.

Seriously. With the tpyos.

Kids' game adds 500-1000 words to its forbidden list every day

May 9, 2008 10:44pm

Lots of good comments, especially the informed ones of edselpdx, profinity, shane. What's amazing to me is this guy's (unintentional, but to me, implicit) admission that these censorship programs -create- new words (spellings, variants, l33tness, whatevs, all new words). The phrase "my milkshake" certainly has more sexual undertones today than 10 years ago. I've heard a story--that's not corroborated on wikipedia, so it must not be true--that the lyrics for the Milkshake song were originally far more explicit, but were toned down for mass appeal. Trying to limit the vocab on a site for kids is perhaps a noble effort, but a futile one. Much like preventing velociraptors from breeding. Nature always finds a way to say fuck.

J.J. Abrams TED talk: "Mystery in a Box" (video)

January 10, 2008 9:49am

Minor stickle: Abrams only worked on MI:3.

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