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Interview with Charlie Angus, Canadian MP who's fighting the Canadian DMCA

July 4, 2008 8:56am

Flash only?? Anyone one find a version I can listen to on my portable player?

Bushnell's Bigfoot contest

May 30, 2008 2:27pm

Shot it with a gun, not a camera. It's the only way to know for sure.

MediaDefender attacks and cripples Revision3 for locking out its spy-bots

May 29, 2008 8:34pm

[rabble rabble rabble]
[waves pitchfork menacingly]

Canadian border guards to check iPods for infringment

May 28, 2008 12:20pm

Rockbox allows you to dual boot your Ipod. What's 'visible' when the Ipod software is running isn't 'visible' when the Rockbox software is running....

Web Zen: meat zen 2008

May 23, 2008 8:08pm

finger painting with barbecue sauce while a plate of ribs goes untouched

Man trains rat to sit on cat to sit on dog

May 22, 2008 4:22pm

Youtube link in case anyone else is annoyed that cnn doesn't work with flash block

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuuesBhOR9g

Fractal drawers

May 12, 2008 8:05pm

I bet there's a few top notch cabinet makers out there that would be happy to make that for quite a bit less than $20k. I like it so much, I'm tempted to see if I can track one down....

Anti-teen noise-weapon comes to the USA

April 24, 2008 2:06pm

I bet that if it was old people repellent instead of young people repellent, these things wouldn't be around for very long.

Lessig launches Change Congress

March 20, 2008 6:40pm

Looks like a great idea, sure would like to see this catch on.

http://change-congress.org/

Funny tech support transcripts

March 6, 2008 5:20pm

Not that this is related to the article, but I feel compelled to share a tech support story. I did tech support for a living for longer than I care to admit. One of my jobs was internal support for a BIG company often associated with a primary color ('internal' means we provided support for the employees of the company, not the end users on the street). I had a confrontation with a caller one day where he was upset that I wouldn't help him with an issue that my management had clearly instructed us not to assist with- an 'out of scope' problem. He felt that since he was working on such a high dollar deal, that I should make an exception and he demanded to speak to the supervisor. The caller knew the supervisor was was another employee of this company, not a lowly contractor like me. The super was nice enough to let me listen in to how he handled it. The first thing the super asked was 'how much is this deal you're working on worth?' When the caller responded with 'about five million', the super said- 'Oh, I see. Well, we only make exceptions if the deal is worth at least ten million. Feel free to give us another call if you can get a deal that's worth our time.'
That made my day, and years later still brings a smile to my face when I think about it.

Uniformed volunteers patrol Tokyo streets to intimidate people hanging out

February 26, 2008 6:00pm

Once again, life imitates art

Cop roughs up teenage skateboarder on video

February 13, 2008 8:12pm

If cops let the skateboarders call them dude, the terrorists win.

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