Corporate fascism strikes at the heart of the Olympics. Again.
“The BBC reports that the proposed London 2012 Olympics Bill bans the use of words related to the Olympics by non-sponsors, including ‘Olympic’, ‘2012′, ‘gold’, ’summer’ and ‘games’, amongst others.
The bill is aimed at ensuring corporate sponsors, who have provided £790m of the IOC’s £2.25bn […]
What is all this about?
During the 2005 San Francisco LinuxWorld Expo, the CEO of Miro announced that he was forming a new non-profit organization called the Mambo Foundation. On the surface, such a maneuver seemed like noble idea for maintaining and ensuring the longevity of Mambo. The only problem with this announcement was that not […]
It’s not often one finds something worth mentioning in the local newspaper. But last week I came across a peculiar front page item that unwittingly summed up most of what I’ve been saying in recent years. Let this be an example for those that are tempted by the Siren’s song …
Moving to the US and […]
Wired puts an end to the myth of organized crime / terrorism / what have you that is living off of piracy.
In the latest public relations strike in the war on copyright infringement, the music and film industries are sowing fears that content piracy, like drug trafficking before it, is being taken over by organized […]
Nobel-laureate economist Joseph E. Stiglitz speaks out against copyright monopolies and regarding the mistakes that have obviously been made in the US and elsewhere in recent years.
The economic rationale for intellectual property is that faster innovation offsets the enormous costs of such inefficiencies. But it has become increasingly clear that excessively strong or badly formulated […]
A prime example, not just why the Bush administration in general and the US in particular must be reformed, but also why the ICANN can no longer be allowed to perform its services as a proxy to the DoC. So much for the argument that the DoC doesn’t interfer with ICANN’s affairs.
Michael Gallagher, assistant secretary […]
Siberia feels the heat.
A vast expanse of western Sibera is undergoing an unprecedented thaw that could dramatically increase the rate of global warming, climate scientists warn today.
Researchers who have recently returned from the region found that an area of permafrost spanning a million square kilometres - the size of France and Germany combined - has […]
Would you eat steak if it had been grown in a petri dish?
It is the ultimate conundrum for vegetarians who think that meat is murder: a revolution in processed food that will see fresh meat grown from animal cells without a single cow, sheep or pig being killed.
Researchers have published details in a biotechnology journal […]
Stupid .. ? Not that this is so typical for Sweden. Drug policy is unnecessarily harsh in many European countries and elsewhere. And what good does it do except tie up resources, fill up prisons … and of course provide a legitimacy “filler” for authorities when there is no violent crime or “terrorism” around.
Swedish police […]
Dungeon Siege 2 is getting modest reviews so far. Many seem annoyed with the lack of depth or actual roleplaying as it were.
So its an action RPG. And at this it truly excells. But that also means that it’s not a game one is likely to return to once the single-player storyline has been expended. […]
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