Pirate Bay spectrial detailed account tips

If you are really into following the ‘spectrial’ closely, I suggest you keep an eye on TorrentFreak, that blogs daily from the court room. Also, signing up to TPB-member Peter Sunde’s live-tweets is quite interesting (and funny). Naturally, also his blog is a vital source of information.

Another slick tactical media strike

I have a weak spot for the web activists do tactical media strikes in the shape of mock versions of corporate websites (classics being RTmarks fake George W. Bush website back when the bozo was running for guvernor in Texas). One of the latest succesful ones target Canon – check it out…and more out. I […]

Will Jack Bauer Change His Ways?

Interesting subject in todays newsletter from Human Rights First: “Jack Bauer is back, in the 7th season of Fox Network’s 24. Bauer has tortured more people than anyone else on TV, and virtually all of the program’s 89 scenes of torture presented it as an effective and morally justifiable interrogation technique. The new season looks […]

Information accessibility

As presented by the brilliant Journalism 2.0-blog, the Obama administration has once again emphasized its principle of information accessibility by opening up another previously closed-off branch of US government. This time by launching USAspending.gov, a site devoted to letting “Americans see where their money goes” and putting the spotlight on the new federal budget. The […]

“Entropa” – controversial art

Czech Republic artist David Cerny has really stirred the pond with his EU-funded piece ‘Entropa’. Danish newspaper Information recently published an interesting article on the matter (in Danish, sorry), but also a gazzillion blogs have picked up the story. Here is one (in English). My thoughts are: How can this upset people so much? Art […]

US bailout costs costs more than Marshall Plan, Louisiana Purchase, moonshot, S&L bailout, Korean War, New Deal, Iraq war, Vietnam war, and NASA’s lifetime budget — *combined*!

Interesting and immensely scary fact posted on the Boing Boing blog: Barry Ritholtz sez, “In doing the research for the “Bailout Nation” book, I needed a way to put the dollar amounts into proper historical perspective. If we add in the Citi bailout, the total cost now exceeds $4.6165 trillion dollars. People have a hard […]

Bail out the Yes Men!

The Yes Men needs our help: Dear Friend, ‘Tis the season for government handouts. But since we aren’t a giant corporation, we thought we’d ask you instead – because you’ve been generous in the past. So here’s our plea: we need money to finish our film. It’s going to premiere in one month at the […]

The best free software

The great Lifehacker technology-blog just announced their top-50 list of the best free software right now, as voted by their readers. See the list here – with links for download and all. Check it out and make an effort to replace your proprietary software (Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, Adobe Creative Suite etc.) with these free […]

Today: Buy Nothing Day

Today is the official Buy Nothing Day, as announced by Reverende Billy and Church of Stop Shopping, a New York Based advocacy group lead by comic preacher Reverend Billy, aka. actor Bill Talen, that trough books, flicks and spectacular appearances – most famous of which are those taking place in the citys’ Starbucks branches – […]

Tactical media strike extraordinaire

I know I’m a little late on blogging on this, but I want to do my part on spreading the word of the amazing New York Times spoof that took place a couple of weeks ago in the US. What a spectacle and what an incredible scale for political activism – one can only admire […]