One Simple Reason to Vote for Obama
Making Light (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
The US Supreme Court: John Roberts, age 55 John Paul Stevens, age 88 Antonin Scalia, age 72 Anthony Kennedy, age...
Teresa Nielsen
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Now That's What I Call a Comment Policy!
Grasping Reality with Both Hands (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Troll Threat Condition Red: > Making Light: Got it in one: **#1 ::: Teresa Nielsen Hayden ::: (view all by) ::: July 01, 2008, 10:51 AM:** I'm hereby declaring open season on anything unfamiliar that comes through the door. Newbies: behave or die.
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"No," he said apartmently
Making Light (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
Courtesy of the American Family Association, their AP feed, and ill-considered auto-replace: US Olympic sprinter Tyson Homosexual. (Via The Carpetbagger...
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Got it in one
Making Light (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
There's a reason everyone says Anil Dash is smart....
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AP to negotiate with sham "Media Bloggers Association"
Making Light (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008 | Technology
This weblog does not belong to the Media Bloggers Association. This weblog had never heard of the Media Bloggers Association...
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Who Is The AP Meeting With?
The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
The "Media Bloggers Association," who the AP said they would meet with to establish "standards for online use of AP stories by bloggers," doesn't seem to be on the level. Here's what Teresa Nielsen Hayden's digging turned up: The Media...
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I Wouldn't Belong To Any Club That Wouldn't Accept Me As A Member
telescreen.org (Free subscription) | 06/21/2008
Have you caught the flap about the AP vs. bloggers? So the AP, in flagrant dismissal of the "fair use" doctrine (Title 17, Section 107, U.S. Code), is declaring war on bloggers by saying that any quotation of their copy...
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Who are the "Media Bloggers Association" and what gives them to right to negotiate copyright with the Associated Press?
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
The Associated Press has promised to meet with some organization I've never heard of called "The Media Bloggers Association" to work out the details of its frankly insane proposal to sell licenses to quote five or more words from AP stories. Who are the Media Bloggers Association? Turns out it's mostly one guy, some right-wing attack-blogger who hangs around on the lecture circuit and ran a blog devoted...
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Secret Masters
Making Light (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
First Charles Stross, now Doctor Who: the very distinguished Paul Krugman continues to out himself as a gigantic science fiction...
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The internet filters! They perform inadequately!
Making Light (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
Actual human beings over the age of 12 thought this campaign video was a good idea. Produced, of course, for...
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"Dog-whistling so loudly that it's vibrating the windows"
Making Light (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
John Scalzi serves up the rantage, fresh and piping-hot. A classic, already being linked to from far and wide....
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Slavery
Making Light (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
In America. Now. Here. Today. This is what we get for letting unions wither. This is what we get for...
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What we can agree about--and what we can't (and shouldn't try)
Making Light (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
Two ways of making the same point. Both worth your time. Discuss....
