Monday, 12 March 2012

PirateBox Takes File-Sharing Off The Radar and Offline, For Next To Nothing

Varsity Apartments, Boulder, Colorado, July l976

Allen Ginsberg, Philip Whalen, novelist William S. Burroughs, swimming pool area, Varsity Apartments, Boulder, Colorado, July l976.
Via DeathWish

A Video Campaign and the Power of Simplicity

Invisible Children Funded By Antigay, Creationist Christian Right

Go to Trial: Crash the Justice System

(Thanx Sander!)

Chances are pretty good you've recently seen the ‘Banksy on Advertising’ quote that begins, ‘People are taking the piss out of you everyday.’ The passage is from Banksy's 2004 book Cut It Out, and it presents the idea that if advertisers are going to fill your world with ads, you have every right to ‘take, re-arrange and re-use’ those images without permission. The quote has been posted widely on Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter, which is where I found it.
Here's the interesting part:
Most of it is swiped directly from an essay I wrote in 1999, in the ‘Death, Phones, Scissors’ issue of my zine Crap Hound. The first paragraph is more or less original, but the rest is mine, right down to the same words and phrases.
See for yourself. Here's the Banksy quote followed by the relevant part of my essay as it appeared in Crap Hound. (The full essay is linked at the end of this post.) Pink indicates indirect references, and yellow shows the direct swipes...

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Sean Tejaratchi @'Reading Frenzy'

What Banksy looks like...

'You can never go fast enough...'

Female Ohio Democrat Introduces Bill To Regulate The Reproductive Health Of Men

Nazi rules for jazz performers

Years of National Socialism, the 30s and the missing 40s

Image: Poster for an Exhibition in Dusseldorf (1938)

Kissinger says Putin is a 'patriot'

RasPutintin?
Kissinger said Putin, who was elected to a third term as president in an election marred by irregularities and protests against his rule, "is not anti-western."
"He is, above all, a Russian patriot who feels humiliated by the experience of the 1990s, which were in the most formative period of his career," Kissinger said in an interview with CNN, referring to the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union and the crisis that followed.
"He is very resentful of what he interprets as intervention in Russian domestic affairs and even more, of course, in what he may interpret and does interpret as some American tendencies to support his political opponents in order to encourage his overthrow," he said.
"But I believe that a dialogue is possible and on specific issues he can turn out to be a constructive partner," he said.
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