Australians may not be able to opt out of the government's Internet filtering initiative like they were originally led to believe. Details have begun to come out about Australia's Cyber-Safety Plan, which aims to block "illegal" content from being accessed within the country, as well as pornographic material inappropriate for children. Right now, ( Read more... )

Sometimes these protesters hit right to the point-


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Senator Dodd has a proposal to help the economy.

Instead of a bailout, he wants to buy up the bad mortgages for 15% less than than the current market value of the house and issue new, clean mortgages to the people in those houses.

This does a number of things. It keeps people in their houses, it represents a much lower bottom line, and since it helps ( Read more... )

Ganked from hughcasey , who got it from BoingBoing, who saw it posted originally at The Nation.

Dear American:

I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude.

I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds ( Read more... )

From an article about Alan Moore-

He is also at work on a massive, 750,000-word novel. "It's the grown-up kind, with no pictures at all," he said. "Although modern binding technology may be overwhelmed by the size of it. It's a huge mad fantasy called 'Jerusalem.' "

The story is partially a history of his native Northampton that dates back to its ( Read more... )

I am posted this link purely so my housemates can see number 1.

The 10 Most Annoying Post-Apocalyptic Worlds

This was totally ganked from weyakin.

Your results:
You are Will Riker Will Riker 60% Spock 59% James T. Kirk (Captain) 55% Jean-Luc Picard 55% Geordi LaForge 55% Deanna Troi 45% Data 42% Leonard McCoy (Bones) 30% Mr. Scott 30% Chekov 30% An Expendable Character (Redshirt) 30% Beverly Crusher 25% Worf 25% Uhura 20% Mr. Sulu 10% At times you are self- ( Read more... )

As some of you know, I own a website development company and intertube marketing company, along with
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I found this article (via digg), which was written by Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrow. Since the only time I've heard anything from the Russian side of this involved a reported on CNN constantly interrupting and yelling at the Russian spokesperson, I thought some of you might be interested in seeing this as well.

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