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Microsoft discontinues Encarta

Another symbol of the old proprietary world falls: Microsoft Encarta will be discontinued on October 31. No wonder – who wants to pay for an encyclopedia, when everything is on Wikipedia for free? With updates every minute – and written by the people of the world, not only biased first-world historians. Read Microsoft’s announcement here.

Remixes of British anti-terror posters

Time for another funny post based on dead-serious background: The brilliant Boing Boing blog has thrown a remix challenge, where it’s readers were asked to “mock the ridiculous new ‘anti-terrorism’ posters the London police have put up that tell you to spy on your neighbors.” Here are the best 25 of what people came up […]

Reverend Billy for mayor of New York!

Reverend Billy, of the advocacy group Church Of Life After Shopping (previously Church of Stop Shopping), has announced running for the position of mayer of New York City for the Green Party of the United States! While his chances are slimmer than zero, I can think of no New Yorker I would rather see sit […]

Bonnichsen receives another idealist prize

Former head of Danish law enforcement intelligence agency PET, Hans Jørgen Bonnichsen, has received another idealist prize – this time given by the Livia Foundation, a proliferation of Center For Konfliktløsning (Danish for the Conflict Resolution Center). Read the piece in Danish newspaper Politiken. For those unfamiliar with Bonnichsen, he is known to be an […]

“Click-fraud” civil disobedience campaign

I love civil disobedience campaigns like this one (found at Slashdot): “In response to Google’s recently announced plans to expand the tracking of users, the international anti-advertising magazine Adbusters proposes that we collectively embark on a civil disobedience campaign of intentional, automated ‘click fraud’ in order to undermine Google’s advertising program in order to force […]

Behavioral Targeting Ad Program

It fills me with intimidation to read about Google’s new initiative; the behavioral targeting ad program. Am I the only one who thinks about 1984 and big brother in general when online habits are so thoroughly mapped and exploited? EFF (Electronica Frontier Foundation) writes: “Today Google launched its behavioral targeting ad program, which it calls […]

Brave New Films

I would like to present a great phenomenon that I’ve learned of recently (from reading an article in Danish newspaper, Information – it’s in Danish, read it here). The phenomenon is a small compony by the name of Brave New Films, an Los Angeles-based independent film production company, founded by Robert Greenwald, specializing in creating […]

NRK launches bittorrent tracker

Interesting turn of events in the wake of the spectrial (the Pirate Bay trial in Sweden, read further below). NRK, Norway’s public service channel, just announced that they are launching a bittorrent tracker based on the same code as The Pirate Bay (the OpenTracker software). Initially they’ll use it to offer their shows for download. […]

Coen brothers’ comment on “clean coal”

Check out this short film made by the Coen brothers commissioned by Thisisreality.org – it so puts the weird ‘clean coal’ notion into perspective. Read the Boing Boing blog post where I found it.

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