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A Sad Day: Our Loss of the Greatest Sea-Captains Ever to Have Sailed the Interwebs
The last (and perhaps most famous) standouts against the Armada of evil corporate "copyright group" lawyers have fallen; condemned by a group of judges that included at least one on the payroll... And don't bother visiting the Pirate Bay anymore; not only are you likely to get hit with nasty PC viruses (embeded in the adverts), but the whole thing has been bought by a Swedish software company called "Global Gaming Factory X". (You can read their marketing bullshit (a.k.a. “press release”) here if you want to...) The following is reprinted from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8121680.stm (BBC News article dated 26 June, 2009 ) :
In related news: the Recording Industry lawyers have been awarded damages of $ 80,000 per song against a 'a 32-year-old Minnesota mom'... note that that's not 8 thousand dollars a song; that's EIGHTY thousand dollars a song (total fine: nearly two million dollars) . check out this article by semi-famous WSJ technology reporter Robert Cringley, titled "Don't stop believing in the RIAA's capacity for evil" (June 22, 2009) .. What's 33 feet across, 22,000 pounds, and spins at 27 miles per hour? Advert: Giant Zoetrope (revisiting the old in a big new way) [ quoted from the Sony site @ http://motionflow.eu/ : ] "Sight is so immediate and familiar that it’s easy to overlook just what a staggering process it is. While we all associate the sense with our eyes, that’s just the beginning of a breathtaking cascade of computation going on inside our heads. Research suggests that our brains have separate systems for perceiving colour, objects, faces and motion, which is what we’ll look at here..... certain neurons seem to be associated with movement in particular directions[, and] just like muscles, neurons tire if you use them too much. [You can see this for yourself:] if you stare for 30 seconds at an image moving in one direction, then look at a static object, like your hand, it will appear to be moving in the opposite direction. ... " "Was it tricky, balancing speed and image size? Here's the making of: blogger cred: http://halfsquatch.blogspot.com (2009-02) Great Stoner Moments - Rocket Ship - from "Futurama: Bender's Game (remember, if you go to the source video, PLEASE click the 'Watch in High-Quality' link!) The moment: The original song is "Rocketship", by Kathy McCarty (Songs of Daniel Johnston):
(2009-01) An Internet Meme Trifecta What happens when lolcatz meets OBAMICON and you add a timely US culturo-policital reference... internet meme gold.
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