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The year 2007 and 2008 apparently is the international polar year.
 
How do we know? Well, Russia is giving a show this thursday in favour of their bid for the north pole and large sections of the north pole sphere. If they win it, especially since oil has been found there, is questionable.
Danmark failed before.

A hundred year ago claimed,
both poles still disputed…
 
Picture Left: (Notice the Pinquins!)
The rival claims of North Pole by Frederick Cook and Robert E. Peary - From Petit Journal.

Update: And we have a picture.

Jhannet Sejas, a 19 year old girl was immediately arrested by the police after she recorded a 20 second clip from the movie “Transformers” that she wanted to show to her little brother. She now faces up to a year in jail and a $2,500 fine.

Teen Arrested for Recording 20 Second Movie ClipSejas was celebrating her 19th Birthday with her boyfriend in a local theater in Arlington. A few minutes after she taped the short clip the police came rushing in and took her into custody on the charges of “being a pirate”.

Full story @ torrentfreak.com: Teen Arrested for Recording 20 Second Movie Clip

Apparently the Hindenburg flew above Manhattan, New York, before it crashed a few moments later.

Since 2002, digital cameras have outsold film cameras. While the advantages of digital camera’s are well known, few are aware of the lurking problem of digital photography. The control and options that film negatives offered are in trouble with its digital equivalent, RAW files.

A RAW file is a file format created by a manufacturer to contain the (actual) raw data from a digital camera. Currently each manufacturer’s format is proprietary, different and typically has multiple variations for different camera models. While RAW file use is increasing, the problems created by their closed, proprietary format are becoming more and more evident.
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Rick Falkvinge, the founder of the Swedish Pirate Party and the international politicized … all » pirate movement, talks about the rise and success of pirates, and why pirates are necessary in today’s politics. He’ll also outline the next steps in the pirates’ strategy to change global copyright laws.

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Slashdot has finally decided it must have a user-generated voting system as Digg too: Firehose (don’t think “Fire…fox”).
Meanwhile I wonder too if this is going to effect Slashdot comments style with that. Popularity contests do attract popularity crowds.. Similarly are the top stories now going to be really the same too between Slashdot and Digg. I hope not.

On a sidenote, if you thought such “reputation” system wasn’t available for sites as Wikipedia, think again .
Remember the trouble we had with wikipedia previously.

Writing wikipedia articles isn’t fully anonymous anymore:
 
Use the search-engine
 
Background story.
 
Power Struggle anyone?
 
 
 
 

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See also Hutongs.

We know it’s already happened in China, the government banned surfers from getting to wordpress.com (along with many other sites), and now, according to Doctus a judge in Turkey has decided that wordpress.com should be blocked there too. Source: cornell.wordpress.com

I’ve always seen Turkey as part of Europe and considering the role of Turkey in European history I’m convinced that they will join some day. But please after a decade or two.

Every month there seems to be some disturbing news. This week it was the news flash that Turkey is blocking Wordpress.com. Why? Well because of just a few weblogs under the domain were a bit to critical towards Adnan Oktar, a fervent advocate of creationism and that was considered as slander.

First it seemed just a mistake that they blocked Wordpress.org and not the sub-domains, which would of course also be incorrect as can be. Sadly later it turned out that Turkey is really blocking Wordpress.com. Well Turkey that’s places you next to a giant un-democratic socialist state in the east! In short you master the craft of censorship well old friend: No seats for you in the EU parliament!

Full story here:
Why We’re Blocked in Turkey: Adnan Oktar, Turkey Bans Wordpress.com and Turkse rechter blokkeert weblogs (dutch)

Update: Story Update.

Via Ape in bsc

Sorry. TOT Plc., as an organization of Thai people, has restrained the access to this website as it contains content, text, and/or picture that is unappropriated which affects the mind of Thai people all over the country and cannot be accepted.

After Turkey, now Thailand blocks Wordpress. Global voices has an interesting interview with 4 prolific bloggers, and their story isn’t very nice. Actually from this information it seems that Thailand is sensorship is heading China’s direction, with keeping track of surfers and profiling them. More information on Global Voices. (via)

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