Did McCain Just Walk Into a Trap? (3)
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So much for slow news days.John Lewis's comments about the McCain campaign "playing with fire" are likely to dominate the news cycle for the next 24-48 hours, including the morning panel shows.The conventional wisdom holds that, whenever the discussion turns to race, this tends to be detrimental to Obama, who for the most part has been scrupulously trying to avoid invoking racial themes into the campaign, at least through official channels. The previous time an ...
Was South Park's Indiana Jones Rape Too Much? [Controversy] (1)
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This week's episode of cartoon iconoclast South Park, in which Indiana Jones was raped repeatedly by George Lucas and Steven Spielberg (see clip), is causing quite a commotion! The showrunners were, you know, just trying to voice their dissatisfaction with this summer's kinda crappy Indiana Jones fourquel, Kingdom of the — Wait What the Hell Is Shia LaBeouf Doing?, but people are wondering: did they go too far? Oh, and, ruh roh, it looks like ...
Rick Ross Admits To Being A Corrections Officer (1)
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Word about Rick Ross’ correction officer past was such big news that it crossed the boundaries of hip-hop journalism to mainstream. After months of denying any involvement with the Miami Department of Corrections, the rapper has now come forward to admit he was a corrections officer. “Yes, it’s me,” Ross said to Don Diva. “I never tried to hide my past. I put my name inside my CDs. My company has my [Social Security number]. ...
Ruby 1.8’s Dismal Net/HTTP Performance (4)
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A week ago, Adam Nelson (a Virginia-based Ruby developer) complained about Ruby's "absolutely bullshit Ruby HTTP client situation." He was running into a nasty situation where Ruby's standard HTTP client library (net/http) was sending data in 1 kilobyte chunks, causing his CPU to redline. Due to net/http's popularity (particularly with other libraries), Adam saw this as a big issue. Today, Adam returns with a more scientific analysis of Ruby 1.8.x's HTTP client performance. He discovers ...
Wedding Podcasts In Battle To The Death (1)
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Weddings aren’t all faith, love and happiness. There’s usually a bit of abject terror mixed in and something - be it the bridesmaid’s dresses, the flowers or the dj - from hell itself. Case in point: A rivalry between two wedding podcasters has devolved into a battle to the death - at least for one of the podcasts. In 2006, New Jersey wedding videographer Robert Ehrlich and his wife started a podcast, creating a website ...
A Call To Arms (1)
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Thanks to Sarah Palin... (2)
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I think it goes without saying that Senator McCain took Barack Obama to school last week in the first Presidential debate. I don’t know how anyone who watched the debate could say otherwise. Obama spent more time stammering, interrupting, and turning red than he did actually providing any useful information to the voters. Senator McCain was very articulate and amazingly prepared for someone who was off doing the job he’s paid to do in Washington, ...
Sex Blogging and Writing for the Drawer (1)
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Ellie Lumpesse: A Pretentious Pervert (2)
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In literary studies there is a concept of writing “for the drawer”. It refers to writing that was done in a historical period or within a socio-political situation that did not allow for it to be published or even openly shared. Some of the greatest literary works produced in early Stalinist Russia were not published until 30-40 years after their initial inception. People like Andrei Bely, Mikhael Bulgakov, and Anna Akhmatova had important things to ...
Danish Newspaper That Printed Muhammad Cartoons Puts Mahatma Gandhi In Their Ads (9)
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Uncle Gray, an advertising agency based in Denmark, has created a series of print ads featuring famous personalities like Mohandas Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Dalai Lama. The ads are actually designed to promote Morgenavisen (jp.dk) – the same newspaper that had earlier sparked world-wide protests after it printed those controversial cartoons of Muslim prophet Muhammad. The tagline of this latest advertising campaign says - "Life is easier, if you don’t speak up" and probably suggests ...
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lrunejensen said:
JyllandsPosten still a very living newspaper!! I am a fan :-) /Rune
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Rakesh said:
another controversy knocking on the door
celibacy is so hot right now (1)
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It’s pretty interesting that at this year’s MTV Video Music awards the biggest controversy came from Brit comedian, host Russell Brand messing with the Disney-sponsored teen pop boy-band the Jonas Brothers for wearing Purity Rings. Purity rings, or chastity rings/promise rings originated in the U.S. in the 1990s among Christian affiliated sexual abstinence groups. The rings are sold to adolescents, or to parents so that the rings may be given to their adolescent children as ...
More Fallout From Apple’s Podcaster iPhone App Ban (5)
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Friday, we reported on Almerica Podcaster, a podcast client for the iPhone that Apple banned from the store because it duplicates features offered by the iPhone’s native software. We said: Rejecting an app because it competes with Apple’s own software, though, sends the signal that people shouldn’t develop podcast-related applications for the iPhone. This is bad for podcast fans, obviously, because they won’t have Almerica’s software available to them. But it’s also bad for the ...
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Apple is the worst thing that happened to podcasting. No Innovation since they put out itunes 4.9 ... now the community is back to trying, and they clobber it...Time to release the gatekeeper from his duties folks!
Despite manual's claim, Spore only allows one account per copy (4)
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Filed under: Mac, PC The latest Spore controversy comes courtesy of some false information printed in the game's manual. The Consumerist reports that despite the game's manual stating purchasers "may have multiple Spore accounts for each installation of the game," they only have one. An EA forum rep stated that the information was a "misprint and will be corrected in future printings of the manual."Spore has been lambasted in Amazon.com's user review section for its ...
Lipstick (2)
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My first reaction upon hearing Barack Obama's "lipstick on a pig" remark was that it was deliberate. Not a deliberate attempt to smear Sarah Palin per se, but a deliberate attempt to provoke exactly the sort of fanatical reaction that they have gotten from the Republicans. The McCain campaign has spent a week campaigning on big themes and big personalities, and gotten a fair amount of mileage out of it. This takes everyone back down ...
Could JavaScript Power A Significant Future Ruby Implementation or VM? (3)
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This week you may have heard about "Chrome," a new Web browser being developed by Google (if you haven't, read this online comic book that demonstrates its worthiness). Associated with Chrome is V8, a new open source JavaScript engine that's designed to execute JavaScript code at never-seen-before speeds. All this reminded Marc-André Cournoyer (of Thin fame) of HotRuby (see previously on Ruby Inside), an experimental JavaScript-based virtual machine that can run YARV-compiled Ruby code, and ...
'Zack and Miri' can't get ahead with MPAA (1)
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The MPAA giveth, and the MPAA taketh away. Recently, director Kevin Smith successfully appealed the NC-17 rating for his new comedy, Zack and Miri Make a Porno. But a short month after Smith's victory, the ratings board has put the kibosh on the movie's first poster. The one-sheet will now be used only in Canada. While you can see why the MPAA got its puritanical knickers in a twist, you have to laugh at the ...
'90210' pool billboard upsets Brooklyn Jews (1)
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In addition to plausibilty, teen drama 90210 has violated Hasidic Jewish law with a billboard showing mixed company lounging around an oddly shaped pool. Unlike the Parent Television Council, United Jewish Organization president Rabbi David Niederman isn't worried about threesomes. Instead, he says the billboard offends merely because "having men and women swimming together is ... not permissible, even if they are fully clothed," which is why he's protesting its placement facing his Brooklyn community. ...
What's Wrong With This Sentence? (1)
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Politico:Besieged by blog rumors about her 17-year-old daughter, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin — named Friday as running mate of John McCain — released a statement Monday saying her daughter is pregnant and plans to marry the father.What does one thing -- the news of Bristol Palin's pregnancy -- really have to do with the other -- scurrilous rumors that were never pushed by any mainstream US media outlet, nor by anyone remotely connected to the ...
Olympic: Gymnastics (1)
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For years, my interest in the Olympics has been tangential: I’ve been excited to hear about world records and great achievements, but haven’t actually been interested in watching the Games themselves. This year, I’m completely entranced by the Olympics in Beijing. I’m not quite sure what caused this shift, but rarely have I been so enthralled by a major sporting event that wasn’t the Super Bowl or the World Cup. Over the past few days, ...
Controversy: Seth Godin Asks Blog Readers to Treat Ads as the New Online Tip Jar and Click (1)
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When Seth Godin called ads “the new online tip jar” – If every time you read a blog post or bit of online content you enjoyed you clicked on an ad to say thanks, the economics of the web would change immediately. You don’t have to buy anything (though it’s fine if you do). You just have to honor the writer by giving them a click. You still get what you pay for, even if ...
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Sooo.. The Kotaku bullshit alarm has been flashing a code amber since we got a tip about Antispore.com, but.. well, we just don't know. The site purports to be a protest against Spore and its 'attack on Christian values' and consists of several Creature Creator movies of Penis Monsters and other Spore grotesques, alongside posts about what the author claims is the game's pro-evolutionary agenda and corrupting influence on children. Oh, and the fact that ...Contribute comment
