Skin mag Perfect 10 may have a knack for sourcing naturally beautiful women, but its courtroom skills and understanding of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act are a bit lacking. A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that Google did not infringe on Perfect 10’s copyrights by displaying thumbnail images of its nude photographs, handing fair-use advocates [...]
Could it be that Winston Smith, the protagonist of George Orwell’s novel “1984,” was right, “thoughtcrime is the only crime that matters”? Hard not to reach such a conclusion when the Justice Department is pressing Congress to approve proposed legislation that for the first time would criminalize intent to infringe copyright.
In a speech to the [...]
After 10 years of bashing open-source software, Microsoft is finally getting around to killing it. Or at least trying to.
John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper. Read more »
Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.
12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size.
11:37 AM: Exercise: “Taxi Stomp” (alternating legs, for 30 blocks). Calories burned: 148,900,183.
1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
Best video mashup ever.
A Facebook Memorial
Wow.
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
Excellent.
Flughumor!
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
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