Castro; Dead, Zombie, or Animatronics?

The news is out that “It’s official: we can unequivocally declare that it wouldn’t be inaccurate to assume that there isn’t reason to not believe that Fidel Castro may or may not be dead (maybe)” Which is how the headline was submitted on Fark
If you want to keep up on what’s going on in [...]

Dumber and Dumber-er: Sheehan to Challenge Pelosi

Posted by: Idiocracy

Sheehan Launches Pelosi Challenge
Anti-War Activist Cindy Sheehan Announces Plan to Challenge House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Sheehan, who turned 50 on Tuesday, stunned fellow anti-war activists in May by announcing that she would sell her 5-acre Crawford protest site. She said then that she felt her efforts had been in vain and that she had [...]

Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature

Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature
Why most suicide bombers are Muslim, beautiful people have more daughters, humans are naturally polygamous, sexual harassment isn’t sexist, and blonds are more attractive.
The implications of some of the ideas in this article may seem immoral, contrary to our ideals, or offensive. We state them because they are [...]

Profile: America’s worst president

Let’s take a little trip down memory lane, shall we?.

Profile in Incompetence; A Ten Part Series on the worst President in American History.
In this exclusive 10-part series, Investors Business Daily takes a hard look at Jimmy Carter’s administration and compares it to that of George W. Bush, which Carter has called the worst ever.
Installments [...]

Finnish court rules CSS protection used in DVDs “ineffective”

Via Oikeuden edessä and slashdot:

Finnish court rules CSS protection used in DVDs “ineffective”
In an unanimous decision released today, Helsinki District Court ruled that Content Scrambling System (CSS) used in DVD movies is “ineffective”. The decision is the first in Europe to interpret new copyright law amendments that ban the circumvention of “effective technological measures”. [...]

FTC official: Let’s imprison spyware distributors

FTC official (William Kovacic) says “Let’s imprison spyware distributors”
Steep fines are nice, but one of the best weapons against spyware purveyors is locking them up, a federal regulator told senators on Tuesday.
At a morning Senate Commerce Committee hearing here, Federal Trade Commissioner William Kovacic said most wrongdoers [...]

The Great Global Warming Swindle

The “Global Warming Consensus” house of cards is beginning to collapse…

UPDATE: There is quite a bit of fallout from this movie:
Scientists threatened for ‘climate denial’
Scientists who questioned mankind’s impact on climate change have received death threats and claim to have been shunned by the scientific community.
Timothy Ball, a former climatology professor at the University of [...]

Net Neutrality

save the internet

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License Launched

The latest version of the Creative Commons licenses — Version 3.0 — are now available. Read more here. Via: /. & BoingBoing.

Professor Lawrence “RW” Lessig’s “The Withering of the Net”

Professor Lawrence “RW” Lessig’s “The Withering of the Net”

On June 16, 2006, Professor Lawrence Lessig gave a talk at the Center for American Progress entitled “The Withering of the Net: How DC Pathologies are Undermining the Growth and Wealth of the Net.” This talk was the second in a series of three. The first talk [...]

U.S. Cyber Counterattack Plans: Bomb ‘em!

We’ve all heard of Google bombing, well the US Government seems to take the expression sort of literally…

U.S. cyber counterattack: Bomb ‘em one way or the other

National Cyber Response Coordination Group establishing proper response to cyberattacks

If the United States found itself under a major cyberattack aimed at undermining the nation’s critical information infrastructure, the Department [...]

China Announces Massive Online ID Database

Via SlashDot:

China provides access to ID database to curb fraud

Anyone can now send a text message or visit the country’s population information center’s website, to check if the name and the ID number of a person’s identity card match. If they do match the ID cardholder’s picture also appears, said the Ministry, adding [...]

Has your video been removed from YouTube based on a bogus Viacom takedown?

Unfairly Caught in Viacom’s Dragnet? Let the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) know!

Well, with its 100,000 DMCA takedown notices aimed at YouTube users, now it’s Viacom that is netting its share of dolphins. Among the 100,000 videos targeted for takedowns was a home movie shot in a BBQ joint, a film trailer by a documentarian, and [...]

Seething the Light

Nuke is having fun at the hardware store.

Nike, Burger King , and now Feit Electric?

While perusing the website of recent commenter, Jon, my keen blogger’s instinct recoiled in horror, as I discovered a photograph of the GE Feit Electric flourescent light bulb which … wait for it … contains similarities to the arabic spelling of [...]

Video: John Edwards Feeling Pretty

This is just too funny…

Hattip: RogerRmjet

Canada Responsible for 50% of Movie Piracy

50% movie piracy from Canada: Hollywood
As much as 50 per cent of the world’s pirated movies come from Canada, prompting the film industry to threaten to delay the release of new titles in this country.
According to an investigation by Twentieth Century Fox, most of the illegal recording, or “camcording,” is taking place in Montreal movie [...]

Our Techno-Utopian Future: Fallacies and Predictions

David Veksler waxes philosophic (as is his custom) on the subject of:

Our Techno-Utopian Future: Fallacies and Predictions

What’s the ultimate destiny of our civilization? Are we destined to become “living batteries” a la the Matrix, refugees in a post-apocalyptic radioactive desert landscape, or peons of a totalitarian surveillance state? Or, can be look forward to a [...]

Is Web 2.0 Communism’s Crowning Glory?

Here is an excerpt from a interesting Op-Ed piece on Bit-Tech:
The People’s Republic of Web 2.0

Karl Marx is famous for thinking up a system where everyone had a voice, where everyone was equal, and then went on to associate it with a political system. I suppose you can’t blame old Karl for the [...]

The Year in Review; 2006 Top Ten Lists

It’s almost 2007, and who doesn’t like looking back at the previous year by perusing the various Top Ten lists? Here are some of my favorites…
From Wired.com we have the 9th annual presentation of the Wired News Vaporware Awards, their ode to the year’s top technology products promised, hyped and scheduled, but not delivered. Click: [...]

How the Democrats Stole the 2006 Elections

Just some random thoughts about hacked voting machines, “Fixing the Vote” and rampant Vote Fraud …
Vote Fixing as taught by Huffington Post with video describing exactly how to actually do it. Nice of Marty Kaplan and HuffPo to give the Dems step-by-step video instructions. It looks like those instructions were followed [...]

Banned by GooTube

Well one of my GooTube uploaded videos has been relegated to the bit bucket. And I didn’t even get a “strongly worded letter” from the GooTube management.
All Americans should be free to express themselves in song! Satire is a form of political expression and speech such as this should be protected, never suppressed or censored!

More “Fizz” Than “Pop”

A toast to good foreign policy gone bad!

U.S. officials doubt Korean test was nuclear

U.S. officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that seismic readings show that the conventional high explosives used to create a chain reaction in a plutonium-based device went off, but that the blast’s readings were shy of a typical nuclear detonation.

“We’re [...]

YouTube Tags Political Video as “Inappropriate”

Wasting no time joining those champions of free speech, Google; YouTube has also now gotten into the business of censoring political speech. But they don’t limit the censorship to China.
First amendment? What’s that?
This video may contain content that is inappropriate for some users, as flagged by YouTube’s user community.
Well the video will make you [...]

Jihad on Apple Computers!

MEMRI is all in a tither over the Apple Store in New York!

Apple’s “Mecca Project” Provokes Muslim Reaction
On October 10, 2006, an Islamic website posted a message alerting Muslims to what it claims is a new insult to Islam. According to the message, the cube-shaped building which is being constructed in New York City, [...]

DefectiveByDesign.org Takes Another Bite at the Apple

Taking another bite at the Apple

With 100,000 DRM warning labels now distributed, it’s time to start the action. Join one. Start one.

Join us in New York and London.

On Saturday, September 30th, hazmat suited DefectiveByDesign members will gather at the flagship Apple stores in New York and London, These high profile events will kick-off awareness for [...]

N. Korea Appears to Be Preparing for Nuclear Test

Aug. 17, 2006 — There is new evidence that North Korea may be preparing for an underground test of a nuclear bomb, U.S. officials told ABC News.

“It is the view of the intelligence community that a test is a real possibility,” said a senior State Department official.
A senior military official told ABC News that [...]

Reuters Caught With It’s Electronic Pants Down

This weekend Reuters was caught with its electronic pants pulled all the way down. Another big media embarrassment that illustrates how much the “News Game” is changed in this brave new millennium.
Accuracy In Media reports that this photo may be the actual original. Was it an Associated Press photo before it was plagiarized [...]

LGF to attempt to establish a lizardoid beachhead on Digg.

Charles Johnson and Michelle Malkin are trying out Digg and del.icio.us … about darned time!
You may have noticed the sudden appearance of links beneath each post, labeled “digg this” and “del.icio.us”. These are quick links to let users of “social bookmarking” sites Digg.com or del.icio.us submit an LGF post for publication. Both of these sites [...]

Soldier sings solo ballad. Now on Google Video

Soldier sings of being led into an ambush. Dark gallows humor. Illustrates the difficulty of fighting non-uniformed terrorists. This video has been the focus of some controversy.
Judge it for yourself.

read more | digg story
Update:
Now on Google video, YouTube, MySpace, just about everywhere at this point. The censors just Hate the internet!

Scientists respond to Gore’s warnings of climate catastrophe

This won’t get much MSM coverage.
Scientists respond to Gore’s warnings of climate catastrophe
“Scientists have an independent obligation to respect and present the truth as they see it,” Al Gore sensibly asserts in his film “An Inconvenient Truth”. With that outlook in mind, what do world climate experts actually think about the science of his [...]