Palo Alto, CA
Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM
Two stars.
The Sheriff stood over a table cleaved cleanly in two. Around him wellheeled young people lay newly dead. What do you have there deputy, he said.
Deputy Stevens leaned over the ruined bar and looked behind it. I got two…
I’ve mentioned it to friends, so it’s no secret: I’ve stopped working on Kiwi. At least for now.
The reason is very simple: Ryan Sarver, the head of Twitter’s Platform Group, made it very plain in a post to the Twitter Developer’s Group that Twitter would rather developers stop building…
I’ve mentioned it to friends, so it’s no secret: I’ve stopped working on Kiwi. At least for now.
The reason is very simple: Ryan Sarver, the head of Twitter’s Platform Group, made it very plain in a post to the Twitter Developer’s Group that Twitter would rather developers stop building…
As some of you know we got banned from Google+ due to some of our content. What we didn’t know at the time is that we were just one of a handfull of Anonymous accounts that was silenced. This is the sad fact of what happens across the internet when you walk to a different beat of the drum….
STOP SOPA
THE ESSENTIALS:
- Summary and bill text of SOPA - H.R. 3261: link
- Summary and bill text of PIPA - S.968: link
- Congressmen who support SOPA and how much money in donations they received to support it: link
IN DEPTH:
- Companies that support SOPA - link
- Companies that oppose SOPA & PIPA - link
- Video: What is PIPA and how will it affect you? link
- SOPA 101: An Infographic - link
- Tech Law & Policy: House takes Senate’s bad Internet censorship bill, tries making it worse - Analysis of SOPA & PIPA - link
- First Amendment Legal Analysis and Implications of SOPA - link
- Stanford Law Professors React to SOPA and PIPA - link
- Infographic: What SOPA Means for Business and Innovation - link
- FAQ: How SOPA Would Affect You - link
GET INVOLVED:
- Take Action Checklist to Stop Censorship - link
- Join @YourAnonNews and @AnonymousIRC and pledge not to tweet between 8AM-8PM EST (1300-0100 UTC) on 18 January [check your local timezone here - Use hashtags #SOPAblackout and #J18
- Add the following banners to your Twitter pic: “CENSORED” - link | “STOP SOPA” - link
- How to contact Facebook and Google to support the January 18 SOPA blackout - link
- Contact your local Representative with info and a widget to find them by EFF and Wired for Change - link
- Plugin for WordPress to protest with a blackout: link
- Click “attend” on the FaceBook event page - link
Palo Alto, CA
Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM
Two stars.
The Sheriff stood over a table cleaved cleanly in two. Around him wellheeled young people lay newly dead. What do you have there deputy, he said.
Deputy Stevens leaned over the ruined bar and looked behind it. I got two…
Tijuana, Mexico
Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM
Five stars.
I want to go back to the hotel, said Clyde.
The hacendado leaned against a wine cask in the dim cellar and regarded Clyde. You will be returned soon, he said. First there is the matter of the girl.
I didn’t do…
Like thousands of people who spend too much time the internet, I’ve become strangely obsessed with the mysterious spam Twitter bot @Horse_ebooks. Not much is known about Horse_ebooks, though it appears to be part of a network of spam accounts promoting dumb ebooks.
Thing is, I really want…
“Overlook Hotel. The apartment July ‘21 ~ J. Torrance”
(Click for bigger. © William Anthony)So, while staying at the ‘Overlook Hotel,’ I found an envelope in a cabinet in my room containing these photographs. Amazing how little the place has changed in 90 years. I don’t recognize the…
Francesco Stelluti (1625). An engraving from Melissographia, which was presented to Pope Urban VII. Bees were the heraldic emblem of the Barberini family to which Pope Urban VIII belonged. This engraving was gifted to him.
