The British government has brought down its long-awaited Digital Economy Bill, and it's perfectly useless and terrible. It consists almost entirely of penalties for people who do things that upset the entertainment industry (including the "three-strikes" rule that allows your entire family to be cut... More.
Is Bruce Vilanch writing for Hugo Chavez now? 'Cause the Venezuelan leader's comedy material is pretty good lately: now he's a cannibalism apologist. In a recent speech, Chavez praised Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the late Ugandan dictator Idi "Butcher of Uganda" Amin. S... More.
Britons: here's a petition to the Prime Minister to abolish the new Digital Economy bill's provisions that will require ISPs to cut off your household's internet access if anyone living there (or using your network) is accused of three acts of copyright infringement:
This petition has been set up ... More.
Going West is a beautiful short film illustrating the worlds in a book, incorporating papercraft to make something dreamlike and wonderful. It was animated by Andersen M Studio.
NZ Book Council - Going West
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Phil sez, "Spoke.com has sucked 3 million records (in 6 months) out of the Outlook address books of your friends and is selling them on their website."
Spoke says that it launched it's free service in August and that they have added 3 million new names since August. How did they do that? It was ea... More.
Master haunt modeller Ray Keim sez, "After a little bit of experimentation and a lot of patience, I figured out how to carve Putka Pods [ed: small, pumpkin-like dried seeds] into extremely tiny jack-o-lanterns!"
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Ha, FreakCitySF: I just reported your comment because it looked like pure spam, advertizing an MP3 player in a thread about carved seeds.
Now I think you meant to add it to the next post What MP3 player should I buy?.
Sorry about that!
Nano-lanterns.
very cute indeed. sure would like to have a couple for my iguana
Requires flickering, flame-coloured LED inside.
The seeds from pickled amla have good potential for that. They already look like little pumpkin coaches.
Ha ha, check out the video results from a google search for "putka".
ooo-oh-so-cute