April 2009
Petit point sur la loi Hadopi en vidéo →
(via Digitalyn)
“It’s so bizarre that we were convicted at all and it’s even more...”
– Peter Sunde, one of the four pirates being beheaded this week (see Operation Baylout, via Digitalyn)
The week in review | DNN International →
eldafto:
digitalyn:
The net is transnational. We use it to share precious moments, thoughts and smiles with friends all around the globe. We use it to meet new friends. We live in it, for hours a day. It makes me angry to see this virtual world, where I feel my true citizenship lies, endangered by fools that are lobbied by rich and powerful assholes. In the wake of the repeated failure of our...
“Are we all, without realising it, taking part in a vast witness protection...”
– J.G. Ballard
RIP
via The Guardian
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A Lego MMOG ? Call me materialistic or old-fashioned, but I don’t really see the point. Legos are about bricks, not bytes.
La vie, c’est comme une pastèque. Il faut l’ouvrir pour savoir si elle est bonne.
“Today I want to talk about piracy and music. What is piracy? Piracy is the act...”
– Courtney Love does the math - Salon.com (via steph) (via digitalyn)
Le juge et le pirate →
Article certes peu informatif, mais affaire à suivre.
International head-of-states gossip time : http://yoolink.to/C4 (brought to you by @Digitalyn)
aaaaaaaannd Uwe Boll strikes again : http://tinyurl.com/d22jds
Who is Newton Faulkner ? http://snurl.com/g1flu (there’s a shitload of ‘Teardrop’ covers on youtube, Jose Gonzales’s kicks ass imo)
A demonstration in Monaco ? Hmm. Maybe times are really a’changing after all.
Watchoutlawpoet:
Tim Ferriss: Smash fear, learn anything | Video on TED.com
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”...”
– (via hypnogoria) (via eldafto)
“Yet there will always be fans, always be musicians, and—of course—there will...”
– Record Labels Get Real - Dual Perspectives - Portfolio.com (via gcn) (via steph) (via digitalyn)
Johann Hari, "You Are Being Lied to About Pirates"... →
outlawpoet:
obvious, but interesting.
“The story of the 2009 war on piracy was best summarised by another pirate, who lived and died in the fourth century BC. He was captured and brought to Alexander the Great, who demanded to know “what he meant by keeping possession of the sea.” The pirate smiled, and responded: “What you mean by seizing the whole earth; but because I do...
ZNet - Desecularising the Republic →
outlawpoet:
interesting stuff about India. We’re not the only people dealing with divisive religious politicism right now.
RT @OldManRivers RT @foolsprogress 100 Sci Fi Movies to See Before You Die: http://tinyurl.com/cklsf5
By ‘open-mindedness’, people often mean the ability to let stuff in. Why is it not the other way around ? The ability to let stuff out ?
Texas School board set to vote on challenge to... →
‘The proposed curriculum change would prompt teachers to raise doubts that all life on Earth is descended from common ancestry. Texas is such a huge textbook market that many publishers write to the state’s standards, then market those books nationwide.’
via Richard Dawkins
How is it exactly that I’m supposed to put positive things into words ? It’s been a while, since I usually just complain about stuff …
Unfortunately human beings don’t think like me. Especially the ones that are supposed to recruit people.
Motivation letters : the simple fact that you actually bothered to write one should be the only proof of motivation needed.
Pour votre culture personnelle (et parce que les... →
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Nous aussi, on t’aime, fou. Tiens bon. On se voit bientôt ^^
Prop 8 : the musical →
Starring John C. Reilly, Jack Black, Neil Patrick Harris and many more
“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take...”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
#hadopi : il est bon de savoir que quelqu’un à l’assemblée ouvre sa gueule. Merci, Jean-Pierre Brard http://snurl.com/f7rwp
Le même, mais en couleur.
