Today's SOPA blackout
Several sites, including Wikipedia and Reddit, are blacked out in protest of the SOPA bill, a bill that threatens the way the internet works. Wired has a great write up if you want more info, but essentially, the bill would make site owners responsible for anything posted or linked to on their website as well as giving content owners the ability to take down any infringing website without any sort of due process.
In other words, blogs and aggregator sites that post content from around the web would become a thing of the past as site owners would be incurring too much risk in hosting them.
I’m not blocking out the Scrabbled because, obviously, who gives a shit whether or not this site is available today, but I thought I’d at least leave this here in case anyone was curious why they couldn’t get to the sites they usually hit today.
In other news, I expect today to be super productive. I already finished the multi-image upload process for some gallery software I’m working on.
Silk Road Marketplace.
Using the completely anonymous TOR network to buy illegal drugs as simply as using eBay.
Colin Greewood on the release of In Rainbows and how best to release Radiohead's newly finished album.
The Scrabbled is a dead website.
What’s the deal with that? I have 7 days left as this job and i plan to spend it on the internet, and going to the scrabbled has been a dead end. No links? No fights? No thought provoking articles? WAKE UP SCRABBLED!
Preaching to the Liar
Bobert Roberts calls a televangelist about a problem with his Blood of Jesus Oil. When you sell a product that preys on the weak and stupid, eventually one of those weak and stupid people is going to get your product in their eye.
All of these people
Sylvester Stallone
Jason Statham
Jet Li
Dolph Lundgren
Eric Roberts
Mickey Rourke
Bruce Willis
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Danny Trejo
Are in the same movie!
If you've never read Reddit.com or don't understand why it's the best website on the entire internet, here's Reddit's Best of 2009.
Take Away Shows
Our goal is to try and capture instants, film the music just like it happens, without preparation, without tricks. Spontaneity is the keyword.
Dead Man's Bones
Ryan Gosling, the actor from Lars and the Real Doll and The Notebook, decided he was next in line to be a terrible actor/musician. He even recruited a children’s choir to help him!
Ummmm....what? sort of NSFW
I just googled “vintage college megaphone” and this came up as a result. WTF?