Laptops designed by 7 year olds

Genius.
Such clarity of vision, such style, this is the future.

Laptops designed by 7 year olds

Santori Time

Great 80's Japanese whiskey ads.
AltJapan

Beautifuly Dark Art

This is some of the fantastic work by Biddy Maroney, an Australian Illustrator hosted at Fantazmagloria.

Fantazmagloria.com

The Machine is using us.

A nice video explaining Web 2.0 and some of the implications.
Yes - I know its geeky - but since your connected to it, you may as well understand some of whats going on.

Another detailed, but much less amusing video here.

Thanx David

Very Amusing wedding pictures.

A great collection of wedding pictures you'd probably wish not to have.

Wedding Photos We'll All Remember

The Revolution will not be Televised

If you want to know how the world works, this is the documentary to watch.
A great fly on the wall view of Media Manipulation, the military at the beck and call of foreign powers, and the people getting off their asses & demanding change.

HUGO CHAVEZ ELECTED PRESIDENT OF VENEZUELA IN 1998, IS A COLORFUL, UNPREDICTABLE FOLK HERO, beloved by his nation's working class and a tough-as-nails, quixotic opponent to the power structure that would see him deposed. Two independent filmmakers were inside the presidential palace on April 11, 2002, when he was forcibly removed from office. They were also present 48 hours later when, remarkably, he returned to power amid cheering aides. Their film records what was probably history's shortest-lived coup d'état.

The Revolution will not be Televised.

Trent Reznor and Saul Williams Show the Music Industry How to Release an Album Online

Journos and music fans from all corners fawned over Radiohead for their bold release strategy for In Rainbows. After breaking with the majors, Trent Reznor and his parter-in-crime Saul Williams are taking that strategy and stepping it up to the next level of awesome. Saul's new Trent-produced album The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust is now available two ways: Free or $5.

Digital Downloads

Steampunk Laptop

What a beautiful, beautiful piece of kit.

Datamancer

Ahem - Datamancher appears to have exceeded his bandwidth, poor lad.
Steampunkworkshop.com has kindly set up a mirror here.

Blackwater Has Spies for Hire

First it became a brand name in security for its work in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now it's taking on intelligence.

Washington Post

Canadian Study: Piracy Boosts CD Sales

University of London researchers, Birgitte Andersen and Marion Frenz surveyed a large group of Canadians to find out what the effect of piracy is on music sales. The results are surprising, at least, for the music industry.

Torrent Freak

Explorers surounded by Wolves.

British explorers on a polar expedition described their terror yesterday after coming face to face with a pack of bloodstained wolves.

Times Online

This reminds me of the excellent tho disturbing essay
"ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED BY HAVING MY ARMS RIPPED OFF BY A POLAR BEAR"
by ANDREW BARLOW

What if all drugs were legal?

A refreshingly lucid article on the pointlessness of Drug Wars.

Understandably, many Americans fear that with no drug laws, we would have hundreds of thousands of addicts, crack babies, children trying drugs, and other evils. But that's what we have now.

Let's assume the worst

If all drugs were legal, addicts would no longer pay black-market prices to criminals for drugs of questionable and dangerous origin. They would get drugs produced by legitimate pharmaceutical companies and pay market prices. They would no longer die from buying toxic drugs, and they would no longer have to mug innocent people to support their habits.

populistamerica.com

Jammie Thomas: her story in her own words

Ive blogged about this before, and I'm so glad Ms. Thomas has had an opportunity to tell her side of the story.
The RIAA has been indiscriminately suing people for Copyright infringement, using some very dubious practices, and a high disregard for Judicial Process.

I was found liable of copyright infringement without the plaintiffs having to prove I downloaded anything, without having to prove I was aware of any file sharing taking place on my computer or within my home, without having to prove I owned a copy of KaZaa, without having to prove any files were shared with anyone from my computer and without having to prove who was on the computer the night of February 21, 2005.

Jamie Thomas p2pnet.net

MediaDefender Emails Disprove MPAA Claims

Brokep, one of the Pirate Bay founders told TorrentFreak earlier that they decided to file complaints because they want to make these big media companies aware of their own wrong doings: “I want them to take their crappy methods and stop their wrong-doing. They are going around accusing the pirate community for doing immoral stuff, when they do illegal stuff,” he said.

It will be interesting to see how this case develops. One thing is for sure, it will be hard for these media companies to deny their involvement with these emails as evidence.

Torrent Freak

Devices Enforce Cellular Silence, Sweet but Illegal

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 2 — One afternoon in early September, an architect boarded his commuter train and became a cellphone vigilante. He sat down next to a 20-something woman who he said was “blabbing away” into her phone.

“She was using the word ‘like’ all the time. She sounded like a Valley Girl,” said the architect, Andrew, who declined to give his last name because what he did next was illegal.

Devices Enforce Cellular Silence, Sweet but Illegal

Most Consumers Clueless About Online Tracking

Online privacy is vastly overestimated, as ad networks and marketers track surfers, study reports.
Jaikumar Vijayan, Computerworld

Google Yahoo comparison

Have you ever doubted that good clean web design stands the test of time.
This should confirm those thoughts.

Comparison of Google/Yahoo front pages over time.

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A Nation of Sheep

A surprising piece on Fox news.
No, not surprising in its content, we know the US is losing the very freedoms it believes were given to it by god (!), but this is surprising as it was on Fox, a channel not normaly associated with dissent.

Judge Andrew Napolitano - A Nation of Sheep