Archive for April, 2006

Feds Drop Bomb on EFF Lawsuit

The federal government intends to invoke the rarely used “State Secrets Privilege”

The State Secrets Privilege is a vestige from English common law that lets the executive branch step into a civil lawsuit and have it dismissed if the case might reveal information that puts national security at risk.

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Sony Stealing iTunes Royalties Revenue from Musicians

the Allman bros and Cheap Trick are suing Sony over this. Chalk up another smooth move by sony. Dee, Dee-dee!

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Funny Firefox Ad

This commercial didn’t win 1st place at the Foxies, but it’s still a great ad.

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Top 25 Cities with Most Polluted Air

The American Lung Association released their annual “State of the Air” report today listing cities with the dirtiest air. LA wins again!

Wow. Birmingham’s air is worse than Atlanta’s. Check it out.

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Just an Average Homeboy!

Kim sent me this video of her dreamboat. You have to check this guy out; he’s just an average homeboy. Kudos for the mullet!

If you want signed glossy prints of “Blaze” check this out.

Here are some good tracks from his demo cd.

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Digg Corrupted

Read it and digg it if you feel everyone should know about this. Let’s see Digg’s response to this article.

When I dugg this article, it had 1047 diggs, but is still not on the front page. Seems like digg editors are banding together to promote the articles they want on the front page and censoring articles from certain sites. Sad.

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Canned Oxygen Could Become the Next Bottled Water

The emergence of another possible billion dollar business, based on bottling and selling a free, natural commodity. Bottled water has become a $9 billion dollar industry in the US alone, and distributors look to repeat this success with canned, flavoured oxygen.

Spaceballs anyone?

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The Great Pop vs. Soda Controversy

This is an entire site devoted to the “Pop vs. Soda” controversy.

(It’s coke)

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Next Toyota Prius to hit 113 miles per gallon!

Apparently the next Toyota Prius will get an insane 113 mpg. It’s going to use lithium batteries instead of nickel and will accelerate from 0 to 62 mph in under 10 seconds, compared to 11 for the current model.

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Remember: Hybrid cars are the leading cause of smug.

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UK Uses Thundercats to Fight Terror

The UK created a FBI-style crime fighting unit and its logo bears a striking resemblance to the Thundercats logo.

Thunder-Thunder-Thundercats!

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