With Us / Against Us — February 29, 2008
29 February 08, 3:30 pm
Filed under: laughtrack | Tags: ,

Every Friday, Ben brings you SD&IF’s weekend space filler With Us / Against Us. Prepare to be torn down, then gloriously uplifted!

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I’ll make this apology once every four years.
29 February 08, 11:30 am
Filed under: sd&if

Hey readers.

I happen to be in Florida and won’t be posting today. Leave your cries of outrage in the comments.

Look forward to Ben’s Leap Year installment of With Us / Against Us later today!

Smooches,

Tony



Chicalifornisandystopia
28 February 08, 1:40 pm
Filed under: activism, privacy, random

AT&T Graffitti

Original image here.



FCC to take a mulligan?
28 February 08, 12:11 pm
Filed under: activism, net neutrality

We recently told you about accusations that Comcast packed their “public” hearing with set-fillers and other disinterested folk in order to keep the anxious general public out of the public hearing held by the FCC on Monday. (SaveTheInternet.com has a nice blocked-out account here.)

Now the FCC might be considering a redo. And this time around it might be at Stanford - Lawrence Lessig’s homebase.

If anyone can make Comcast cry “uncle”…



In Depth
28 February 08, 11:55 am
Filed under: reading

It’s not so shocking to assume people are reading more because of the internet. But are we reading deeper? AHAHHHAHAAAHAHA!!! Oh, that’s fresh. Fresh, I tell ya’.

Wait…what? We are? Crazy. [via]



Jon Arbuckle, Existentialist
27 February 08, 11:00 pm
Filed under: fair use, laughtrack

http://garfieldminusgarfield.tumblr.com

This is why fair use (and tumblr) rules: garfield minus garfield. [via]



.ukonfusion
27 February 08, 10:22 pm
Filed under: internets, wtf?

What the hell? Apparently the University of Kentucky was informed via e-mail that its course on the Holocaust no longer existed…despite the fact that, you know, students were enrolled and the teacher was teaching them. And, maybe, it is all because some people didn’t realize that the .uk suffix means United Kingdom and not the southeastern school that consistently produces fiercely competitive basketball teams?

The internet is out of hand, people.



“But you know it’s really over…”
27 February 08, 12:09 pm
Filed under: music, quotes and stuff, wtf?

It’s a rock and roll kind of week here at sd&if…

Ars Technica: Music executive declaration: “Music 1.0 is dead.”

The statement, made at the Digital Music Forum East, could only have been followed by a unanimous: We have absolutely no idea what that means.

Things get even dodgier when the article uses the following to paraphrase iLike’s CEO’s entire speech: Music 2.0, meet Web 2.0.

That’s the kind of contemporary media-anthropomorphizing-meta-speak that makes the back of your eyeballs itch.

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Your Midweek Distraction - February 26, 2008
27 February 08, 12:05 am
Filed under: reading, social networking | Tags:

Every Wednesday, we here at sd&if bring you a glorious little internet gem designed to stop those TPS reports just short of completion.

Take this one home tonight: Library Thing.

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A Case for Censorship — February 26, 2008
26 February 08, 6:30 pm
Filed under: censorship, laughtrack | Tags: ,

Every Tuesday, Deputy Director Ben brings you the creative endeavors that earn you your very own fingerprint file.

This week: Pillaging the original ‘WTF’

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