Dec 12
Not very funny.
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At 4:50 in this goes from being not very funny to really bad and kinda scary. At what point have I joined the tin foil hat-wearers?
Sep 14
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Thank you Cory Doctorow for giving us this. It’s been around for a while, but I still get a kick out of it. He encourages us to place this on emails, stick it to those foot-long reciepts, and put anywhere else it seems fitting.
Jul 25
This executive order is causing a stink on Digg and Slashdot. Evidently the claim is that it enables the Secretary of the Treasury to be able to “seize the property of any person who undermines efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq.”
Sounds a little like paranoia, and I’m tempted to dismiss it but the size of the stink makes me want to read more before moving on.