Month: February 2012
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Calling out RIAA and MPAA lies over SOPA & PIPA
Or to use their term ‘misinformation’. Really the RIAA and MPAA don’t seem to know when to lick their wounds and give it a rest, judging by their petty and frankly wrong response to the successful Internet Blackout and actions by Wikipedia and Google – so it’s nice to see Techdirt calling them out line…
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Welcome to the hamster wheel
Popstar does a not very obscene gesture. People – well journalists and professional bloggers who aren’t really ‘people’ they are paid to pretend to be – get upset about it. Others get upset about that. And so the cycle continues. Is this the best humanity can do? This has a crushing depressing inevitability of PR…
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New photo blog: Ragged Trousered Photographer
I have a new photography blog partly because I’ve been revisiting analog photography, and also have a film scanner on the way and have been giving my photography a long needed kick up the arse. It’s called The Ragged Trousered Photographer*, and will be the home for all the photo geeking which does seem a…
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What Time Is Judas (or Anne Clark?)
I think I might have mentioned as an aside on the KLF podcasts, but not many people know where THAT riff from ‘What Time Is Love’ is from – in a 1991 interview they admitted it’s was taken from ‘Judas’ Death’ from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ – especially > 2:50. Or was it?…