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More Zittrain on stopping the internet
stop it I say!
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NASA to VW devs: build our world for no pay & sell your crap it in
"In exchange for a collaborator's investment to create and manage a NASA-based MMO game for fun and to enhance STEM, NASA will consider negotiating brand placement, limited exclusivity and other opportunities." Great, a Mountain Dew space shuttle.
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UK police: put bad toddlers on DNA list
"Primary school children should be eligible for the DNA database if they exhibit behaviour indicating they may become criminals in later life, according to Britain's most senior police forensics expert." Can someone please tell them we don't live in a Phi
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Trailer for Zinn's The People Speak now online
"Viggo Mortensen, Danny Glover, Marisa Tomei, Steve Earle and others readin material from Voices of a People's History of the United States." Watch and think.
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Koster throws it down at Worlds in Motion
"It’s not about virtual worlds; it’s about the real world. It’s about people. That’s what makes virtual worlds the killer app. It’s us. It’s other people." Dang, this is a must read if you're at all interested in where this stuff is going vs w
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Canada asleep on net neutrality while US makes progress
"Net neutrality is not enshrined by law but its principles are supported by some regulations. But in both the United States and Canada internet service providers have been caught engaging in practices that go against the principle." Keep the web free, her
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Getting ready for Fatworld
"Fatworld explores the relationships between obesity, nutrition, and socioeconomics in the contemporary U.S." Take that McDonald's!
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Newsflash: Posh Spice don't read books
Victoria Beckham says she has never read a book in her life. It's a common trait - one in four adults say books aren't for them.
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The war on war recruiters
Summer is typically the most active military enlistment season, but the growing student counter-recruitment movement is working hard to keep youth in schools.
more fromwww.alternet.org
High tech eye glasses block billboards
SeeFree® Visual Spam Blocking System™ based on cutting edge image-recognition and augmented-reality technology, will effectively filter out all "visual spam" you don't need, and will make your sight really free.
more fromwww.see-free.com
Deep Throat revealed
One of the greatest political and journalistic mysteries of the past century may have been solved after a former FBI official outed himself as "Deep Throat"
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Anti-poverty wristbands made by slave labour
FASHIONABLE wristbands worn by pop stars, actors, top athletes and celebrities to publicise the Make Poverty History campaign are produced in appalling "slave labour" conditions, damning evidence has revealed.
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Teen says blogging sux0rs
Instant messaging is an epidemic, and Web journals dominate the Internet. Now MySpace.com has reared its ugly head, taking rank as one of the most vile and torturous of man's creations
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Max Barry Predicts the Brave New World
Occasionally I wonder how social values will change over the next several decades. I’m pretty sure they will change. But which ones? Here are some guesses.
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US Office unsuprisingly sucks
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