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Thursday 13 November 2008

Rachel Maddow Wears PJ's In Solidarity With Bloggers

Planned Internet Censorship In Australia

(click on image to learn more.)

"...There are free-speech concerns.

Although the initiative is intended and marketed as a tool to help protect children from the dangers of the Internet, this paternalistic scheme raises some troubling issues that affect all Australians. As a source of daily information, the Internet increases in importance every day. Do we really want the Government of the day deciding what Australian adults can and can't see? Do we want Australia to join a censorship club in which Burma, China and North Korea are the founding members?

* The list of prohibited sites will probably be secret, so it will be hard to know what content the Government has effectively banned.
* Filtering will be compulsory in all homes, even where there are no children.
* It is unknown whether there will be any way to have content removed from the prohibited list.
* How far will the list go, now and in future? Will it filter out material on sexual health, drug use, terrorism... even breastfeeding? Euthanasia and anorexia have been touted by Government MPs as topics worthy of filtering."

More here, here and here.

Jean Seberg 1938 - 1979

Jean Seberg was born on this day in 1938

'Nevermind' now

'Now 17, Spencer Elden is a high school student, who says that "it's kind of creepy [to think] that that many people have seen me naked — I feel like I'm the world's biggest porn star."

Elden recently re-created the iconic album's cover in the same pool at the Rose Bowl Aquatic Center in Pasadena, California, where it was originally shot — only this time, he was wearing shorts. It remains unclear as to why Elden decided to shoot this new photo.

Elden's parents were paid just $200 for allowing him to be photographed back in 1991. But last year, Elden told us that being the Nirvana baby has its perks. He references it when trying to pick up ladies, he said: "I have to use stupid pickup lines like, 'You want to see my penis again?' " But it's also led to some strange encounters as well. He was once invited to swim in a rather wealthy woman's pool for the mere fact that he was the Nirvana baby.'
(MTV)

Wednesday 12 November 2008

You just don't get it do you?

Palin calls bloggers "kids in pajamas".
Story at 'The Huffington Post' here.

A radioreactive report on Syria

Story at 'FP' here.

Currently reading

Richard Ford

'The Lay of the Land'

YoniLab

More here.

Tuesday 11 November 2008

Obama - Clinton soap opera takes new turn

Story from 'Politico' here.

Mystery of lost US nuclear bomb

Story from the BBC here.

Bickershaw 1972

Continuing the series of 'Dark Stars' from the Grateful dead European tour of 1972.
Here is the 'Dark Star' from the (very muddy) Bickershaw Festival held on the 7th May just outside Wigan in Lancashire, England.

(Look closely at the photo above and you may be able to see Elvis Costello. Actually you can't he was in front of the left hand side speaker - stack!)
Other 'Dark Stars' here.

Eh?

Well I had a post removed by Blogger.
What post you may ask?
Answer: 'Ryan Adams - Cardinology.'
What were they (who knows who) objecting to?
What was there?
There was a link to the 'review of the reviews' from the blog 23/7.
There were a couple of pics on the post including the album cover.
(Update: Interestingly I just went to look for the album cover in Google Images and there are none there. Could that really be what they were objecting to?)
Finally there were some live versions of tracks from the album available from another site that I also linked to (bag of songs blog) and a version of 'Wharf Rat' from Ryan Adams performance with Phil Lesh and Friends' on his birthday last year.
Which are all available to download at Archive.org.
So what was objectionable?
I really would like to know so I don't do it again, but it seems to me that some - body/machine saw the post title and presumed that maybe I had put up the album.
I don't know and I really would like to.
Finally if you have a problem with a post let ME know (via the comments) and I will remove it immediately OK!