"Sorry, GREEN PORNO is currently unavailable in your territory"

What the...? No green porno for me?

How to play FLV files

Ah. :)))

"This is the way people [men] think. This is how things are."

Excuse me but speak for yourself.

Meaning? Learing to appreciate it? What about those paintings done by monkeys or 6 year olds that sell for big bucks? Modern art is 96% hogwash. The emperor has no clothes.

Wow. 8D

& PS: Hello: maybe the sound was deliberate? (It was silent in the lab.) Joke? Maybe? Perhaps?

Drat, here I was confusedly wondering if this might be a sequal to Blindshrike which I read ages ago. Totally out there. Much better title too. :)

If that were me the story would have gone differently.

'Where's the computer?'
'On the desk. That's the computer,'
'No, the computer.'
...
'Oh, it's over there in that box.'
'Why is it in a box?'
'I heard you were coming so I packed it already, here, let me carry it for you.'

German prosecutors are investigating 12,000 suspects in a child pornography network. (AFP Dec 24, 2007)

You may want the world to be perfect, it is not. You may want everybody to be nice, they are not.
Cory Doctorow is famous and might not fear this, I for one do not want to get accused or arrested for child porn, thank you very much.

"Producing for MP3" has been around for a while.
I'v heard it from a music producer, I can't recall his exact words, that it's bullshit. He said he wouldn't know how or what to do specifically to "produce for mp3". The Rolling Stone article only talks about boosting the volume. If that's what they mean, okay then.

I've also read a study that came to the conclusion that practically _all_ teenagers these days suffer from hearing loss.
(Like losing eyesight, you don't really notice, untill you're fitted with proper glasses.)
Which makes me wonder where this is going to end.

Please.
Sure, feigning death is a valid strategy in the animal kingdom, but you don't need Warcraft to learn this.
Ultimately the boy was just lucky. In another quantum dice roll the moose pummels the boy to death and the headline runs: "Boy dies because of Warcraft". But hey, don't let me stop anyone taking life advice from video games.

This (translated) quote should sound familiar:

And that's why he (Hans Jansen) thought of a revolutionary plan. The books need to be destroyed, it's the only way to safe them. "I see only one solution: cut open the back of the books and run them through the scanner as a pile of papers. You've lost the book that way, but you've made a digital copy for les than 10 bucks.

(Hans Jansen is head of Research & Development of the Royal Library of Den Haag)

From: Dit boek moet kapot (NRC Handelsblad, 22 November 2007)

This reminded me so much of Rick Dakan's Geek Mafia (recently blogged on this here site).

Not for publication, but are the admins aware that the recaptcha does not work to post a comment for anonymous users? It does not have a box to enter text. I openend a new window and went to the recaptcha site where it does work. Also to create an account, the recaptcha works. It just does not work for anonymous users.

These "drop boxes for unwanted babies" exist in the US as well. (The alternative is dead babies in trash cans.)

There was a show about it on 'This American Life': Who Can You Save? and a website: Children of Hope Foundation.