Ayaan Hirsi Ali Australian Interview (2/2) (more…)
As a follow-up of the spreadgun performance in 2008, SMSlingshot is an extension of VR/Urban’s digital intervention activism. The installation features a handheld digital slingshot device for spreading information on public screens.
Government departments will continue to use an outdated version of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer for browsing the web.
That’s because the cost of upgrading from IE6 would be too much of a burden on the taxpayer, the government has said in response to a recent petition.
Don’t think they have really factored in the potential costs of NOT ditching Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (IE6). Creating and maintaining websites to cater for IE6 bugs is a big drain on web developers, and adds to their costs. In fact making a website work the same in IE6 is the biggest time and money waster of any project.
Governments should set Firefox as the new/future standard instead of any Internet Explorer version, much safer and less browser related bugs to fix. Moreover Microsoft hasn’t proved to be a great bug fixer in the past, their latest version IE8 is also littered with issue’s . [via]
For years, Internet advocates have warned of the doomsday scenario that will play out on Monday: Google and Verizon will announce a deal that the New York Times reports “could allow Verizon to speed some online content to Internet users more quickly if the content’s creators are willing to pay for the privilege.”
The deal marks the beginning of the end of the Internet as you know it. Since its beginnings, the Net was a level playing field that allowed all content to move at the same speed, whether it’s ABC News or your uncle’s video blog. That’s all about to change, and the result couldn’t be more bleak for the future of the Internet, for television, radio and independent voices.
How did this happen? Read the full article @ Huffingtonpost.com: Google-Verizon Deal:
The End of The Internet as We Know It
Monday the 9th of August 2010 will finally reveal if Google is Evil or not
Bert Brussen
Journalist Bert Brussen heeft van het Openbaar Ministerie het verzoek gekregen een nieuwsbericht van zijn blog te verwijderen. Maar kan Bert Brussen zich niet beroepen op de persvrijheid? De affaire illustreert duidelijk het probleem van de censuurknop die Hirsch Ballin laatst lanceerde.
Bert Brussen publiceerde op zijn blog een nieuwsbericht. In dat nieuwsbericht nam hij een tweet op, waarin iemand Wilders met de dood bedreigde. De titel van zijn bericht luidde: “Wilders met de dood bedreigen doe je zo”.
Lees meer @BOF:
Vervolging om nieuwsbericht illustreert probleem censuurknop
Op dit moment kan de Officier van Justitie een tussenpersoon, zoals een hoster, pas vervolgen als deze niet voldoet aan een bevel van de rechter-commissaris om een website te verwijderen (artikel 54a Wetboek van Strafrecht). Deze bepaling was, zo blijkt uit de wetsgeschiedenis, bedoeld om “censuur van staatswege” en zelfcensuur te voorkomen.
Daar wil het Ministerie van Justitie nu verandering in brengen. Zij wil dat het OM zonder tussenkomst van een rechter een tussenpersoon kan bevelen om gegevens te verwijderen als dit nodig is om een strafbaar feit te beëindigen of te voorkomen. En als een tussenpersoon niet meewerkt, kan het OM een dwangsom opleggen “als stok achter de deur”.
Lees meer @ BOF:
Wetsvoorstel: OM krijgt aan/uit-knop voor websites
Lees ook:
De column hierover op Webwereld
Bert Brussen moet zich melden bij politie wegens webloggen
Und so weiter
Tot 30 september 2010 bestaat de mogelijkheid om reacties te geven op het concept-wetsvoorstel.
According to two research scientists the mystery of vanished ships and airplanes in the region dubbed “The Bermuda Triangle” has been solved. Natural gas … specifically methane, is the culprit behind the mysterious disappearances and loss of water and air craft … Any ships caught within the methane mega-bubble immediately lose all buoyancy and sink to the bottom of the ocean. If the bubbles are big enough and possess a high enough density they can also knock aircraft out of the sky with little or no warning.
Read more @ Salem-news.com [via Tijs]
A record for the number of people riding a rollercoaster naked has been set in Essex, organisers have claimed. A total of 102 people met at Adventure Island in Southend to ride the Green Scream without clothes. The naked riders raised £22,000 for Southend Hospital’s breast care unit.
The Southend Hospital Charitable Foundation’s Bosom Pals Appeal aims to raise £750,000 to provide two digital mammography machines, as well as enhancements to the breast care unit’s current scanning machines.
Full article and video of the event @ the BBC News website [via RAPP]
SAN FRANCISCO — Google and Verizon on Monday introduced a proposal for how Internet service should be regulated — and were immediately criticized by groups that favor keeping the network as open as possible.
Ivan Seidenberg, chief executive of Verizon, said the proposal excluded wireless because the companies were “concerned about the imposition of too many rules upfront that would not allow us to optimize this network in a fashion that would supercharge the growth we’ve seen in the past.”
But Gigi B. Sohn, president of Public Knowledge, a consumer group, said that by excluding wireless access, a fast-growing portion of Internet traffic, the proposal “sacrifices the future of the mobile wireless Internet as this platform becomes more central to the lives of all Americans.”
Google turns out to be evil … read full article @ NY Times
The smash guitar is a playable toy guitar that is actually designed for optimum smashing on stage. Watch this incredibly funny instructional video on how it’s designed, how to use it on stage.
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Doneer Nu op Giro555. Zodra je gedoneerd hebt houdt het natuurlijk niet op. Pas bijvoorbeeld je Avatar op Twitter en Facebook aan:
De eerste foto’s uit het rampgebied staan hier.
Interesting international variations are seen, both in the amount of time Facebook users spend on the site each month and in the competing networks’ popularity in different countries.
BoingBoing posted this amusing video of a Japanese tourist trying to buy an ice cream in Istanbul. The server just keeps messing around with him!
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Frank nicely points out, that Netneutrality and rights involved have rules that companies not users are proned to follow. Netneutrality is a big part of having a free and open internet. It is a first amendment issue, where the right to publish is at stake. (via)
Star Wars Uncut wins an Emmy — the entire film is now viewable, 473 15-seconds clips recreated by fans! (waxy)
Since a while back big fan websites have been taken down, does the movie industry slowly seem to get it now?
A sketchy look at family life: Daddy’s on childcare duty while mummy gets the ice creams. (via)
Anton Geesink, Great Champion, only 10th dan in 1999, first to beat ruling Japanese, example for a class of dutch & European Judo/Eastern sportsman ever since. Principle before victory, therefore widely held in awn in Japan.
Off course sometimes made fun of, due this character… and temper.
