At least there are a few good people left who can’t be bought or bullied.
Microsoft first asked the U.S. government for help in November, and also attempted to bring the U.S. court system into the battle, however they declined. In all cases, the courts ruled the case was between the EU and Microsoft, and the […]
Greenpeace launches a much needed campaign against Apple and their egregious environmental policies that fly in the face of its public image as a conscientious corporation.
Apple products - sleek looks, amazing design, meticulous attention to detail. So what’s with the toxic chemicals inside, short life spans and allowing their products to be dumped in Asia?
None […]
Newsweek’s foreign and domestic covers. Media self-censorship has rarely been so well illustrated. Because hey, why would Americans be interested in the cost and consequences of American interventionist foreign policy? (Metafilter)
More pertinent criticism of the allegedly “liberal” Newsweek: Remember Newsweek’s “Power Women” Issue Last Week, Followed By Their Conference On Women And Leadership? Fareed Zakaria […]
Carlos Latuff and a poorly concealed death threat on a Likud related web site.
Now guess what! I’m being threatened by Likud, a right wing party in Israel (former party of Sabra and Shatila butcher Ariel Sharon). In a page linked to Likud, my picture and some of my cartoons are shown. Along the same old […]
Two men are caught … well, making some type of physical contact on an American Airlines flight and they are promptly given the budget terrorism treatment, asked to cease or else the plane will be diverted (New Yorker). Hopefully it will be dawning on some people what sort of society this whole faux terrorism hype […]
For those that claim that the United States is a shining example of how software patents can work (Vnunet)
The US Patent and Trademark Office has reported a new record for the number of software patents awarded in a single year.
The agency issued 893 new patents on Tuesday alone, pushing the total to 30,232 in 2006 […]
Boing Boing notes …
As you’ve no doubt heard, TFINYR is a documentary about the MPAA’s censorious ratings system, whereby a secret group of “parents” meet to determine whether a given film is safe for kids to see. If they give a movie an NC-17 (no children under 17 admitted), it’s a death-sentence: studios won’t promote […]
So, Microsoft’s Zune is available … at least in reliable, non-blurry and plucky promo photos and has, to some degree, been fleshed out in technical specs. Just about everyone has written something on the topic. Most people hate it already. I guess that would be the same 75% who currently own an Apple-infested DAP and […]
As I noted a while back when Scandinavian countries were applying pressure to Apple, the U.S. would not stand for it and would stop at nothing to force dissenters into compliance. Well, here it is, the U.S. even said it publicly although they wrapped it in a big transparent lie.
A U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) […]
A Medialens Alert - On the structural determinism of the corporate system, the “liberal herring”, the need for corporate power to defang democracy by means of propaganda or deceit and the longstanding tradition of using military force to create, pacify foreign markets.
The Australian social scientist Alex Carey summed up the evolution of political power in […]
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