To prevent another DMCA takedown notice from Apple Inc., I’ll try not to let any “trade secrets” slip out during the course of this posting. This text has been vetted by the Lizard Legal Team and is suitable for dissemination to one and all.
First a brief primer. The DMCA, or Digital Millennium Copyright Act, is a law intended to protect copyright holders from copyright infringers, in theory. The umbrella is quite large, and makes illegal, amongst other things, the reverse engineering of DRM or any methods used to circumvent copy protection tied to digital products. The principles of protecting copyrights is noble, as there needs to be a way to prevent others from improperly using someone else’s creation or content. Sadly, the DMCA is being abused by companies to limit and restrict the free-flow of information and technologies.
For a more in-depth look at the DMCA, head on over to Wikipedia. Now, let’s get to the part where this concerns scriptedLizard.com.
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Here is my contribution to “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day.” And why am I doing this? Well, my reasoning will be made clear in a separate article, but it’s related to the censorship of South Park. On an artistic note, I think my depiction of Mo’ looks a bit like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
In the United States of America, we have the 1st amendment, which provides everyone the RIGHT to freedom of speech. This right not only extends to polite and good-intended speech, but thankfully, speech which is offensive or hateful. In short; you get the good with the bad.
Think Different… is it not 1984, the year the Macintosh was first released? No, it’s 1984… the year of Big Brother.
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This is Dilly… he’s a turtle, painted on a sea stone. It was created by an artist named Debby Lindsley. I saw it in the store-front window of small shop in Wickford, Rhode Island. They have dozens of small shops throughout town that offer an eclectic mix of jewelry, art, and antiques, just to name a few.
The entire stone is painted, with the bottom being a “cream” color and with the artist’s signature– and even the turtle’s tail! The turtle already had his name, and comes with a certificate. I only spotted it in the window for a second, but it was enough time for me to walk in the store and buy it.
I usually only collect things that are blue, but I made an exception here.
I normally don’t swear, but please excuse my French when I say that Pat Robertson is the BIGGEST FUCKING IDIOT on the face of this Earth. He is the reason there isn’t a God, because if there were, any righteous God would have offed Robertson’s sorry ass a long time ago. This tired, old, irrelevant, and senile man should keep walking off into the sunset of this flat Earth, dragging his knuckles all the while.
Let’s reminisce… 9-11 was God’s way of dealing with homosexuality. Katrina was God’s way of telling us we are aborting too many fetuses. But this one, this is Robertson’s best… the Haiti earthquake was God’s way of showing anger at the people of Haiti for making a pact with the devil hundreds of years ago. Yes, even the babies and young children. They all are condemned to die. Sighs… a pact with the devil.
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Each year on December 8th, the world remembers John Lennon for his gift of music. It’s a gift that forever resonates and floats eternally across the universe. But what made this December 8th most special was the fact that I got to spend it in the city that John Lennon loved and called home– New York City. My father, a friend, and myself spent about 7 hours strolling through the city. We walked almost 8 miles when all was said and done. I would have walked ten.
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You buy a bike, you better get some better parts. Next bicycle I buy, I’m gonna buy the frame only, then buy the parts I want. What an investment…
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The spoken word in harsh contrast
Feels like silk against the cold asphalt.
The warm recollections of a summer’s past
Casts a cold shadow at autumn’s feet.
Is it anger or fear which finds itself
At the moment of universal truth?
To be one with the spoken word
Is to feel the vibration of meaning.
I was once to be reborn in the eyes of the world
Only to realize that to be born is to have been dead.
We are dead before we see
And we are born before we understand.
To enemies of friends and friends to enemies
I cast my shout across the universe.
Bryan Los 09.03.09
No, not for my search engine. I stopped using Yahoo! a long time ago. I’ve switched my web browser home page to Google News, replacing the Yahoo! home page I’ve used for years.
It’s all because of the new Yahoo! home page… in a word it’s stupid. Just about everything you hover over causes a pop-up or some larger area to open up. It got to the point where I couldn’t even move my mouse on the page in fear I would open another pop-up. What’s worse, because there is so much “hoverable” content, trying to click out of something often gets you into something new.
What a mess! Just because you can pack 10,000 items in a 1280 x 1024 screen space doesn’t mean you have to. I’ll go back to Yahoo! when they go back to sensibility.
As for Google, the page meets my minimalist taste.
