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EFF wins enormous victory against DRM: legal to jailbreak iPhones, rip DVDs for mashup videos (tags: law internet culture media technology) The War Logs – Interactive Feature – NYTimes.com (tags: journalism war politics toread) Afghanistan: The war logs | World news | guardian.co.uk (tags: history journalism politics toread war) The WikiLeaks Afghanistan leak Note how […]

Star Wars: Daily Star Apologises To Rockstar … last week the Daily Star ran an absolutely ridiculous story in which they claimed that Rockstar were to release Grand Theft Auto: Rothbury, based on the events of Raoul Moat, the murder he committed, and his run from the (tags: media law games)

AFP: US Senate passes 'libel tourism' bill Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy, a Democrat, charged that libel judgments in foreign courts were "undermining" freedom of speech and of the press and "chilling" open debate in the United States. "While we cannot legislate changes to foreign law that are chilling protected speech in our country, […]

Why we should clone a Neanderthal (tags: science) Amanda Palmer Performs The Popular Hits Of Radiohead On Her Magical Ukulele | Amanda Palmer (tags: music fun) BBC News – Thousands of blogs shut down over 'terrorist material' BurstNet said Blogetery.com also posted "bomb-making instructions". The company said it acted after receiving "a notice of a […]

Grades don't drop for college Facebook fiends . In a recent paper titled "Predictors and consequences of differentiated practices on social network sites," researchers found that heavy use of sites like Facebook and MySpace doesn't affect college students' grade point averages. In fact, it's the usual suspects such as gender, ethnic background, and parental education […]

RIAA Accounting: Why Even Major Label Musicians Rarely Make Money From Album Sales In a traditional loan, you invest the money and pay back out of your proceeds. But a record label deal is nothing like that at all. They make you a "loan" and then take the first 63% of any dollar you make, […]

Matt Taibbi: Lara Logan, You Suck As to this whole "unspoken agreement" business: the reason Lara Logan thinks this is because she's like pretty much every other "reputable" journalist in this country, in that she suffers from a profound confusion about who she's supposed to be working for. (tags: journalism media politics war)

Study: Mixing School-age Kids And Computers Makes For Bad Stuff the professors report finding “strong evidence that children in households who won a voucher received significantly lower school grades in math, English and Romanian.” The principal positive effect on the students was improved computer skills (tags: media technology education) Citizen journalism not making up for […]

South Korea: Keyboard Warriors Against Young Women The cyber-vigilantism (or bullying) in Korea, is practiced mostly by men. More reasonable voices online have analyzed this phenomenon as modern witch hunting performed by belligerent netizens, in reaction to Korean women gaining more power while men struggle under heaping social and economic pressure. The ‘girls' are everyday […]