1. Digital Economy Bill gives Mandelson new powers 1 hour ago   permalink

Digital Economy Bill gives Mandelson new powers
Www.eweekeurope.co.uk

The Digital Economy Bill, published today, gets tough on file-sharing, and allows Lord Mandelson to amend the copyright act in future The UK government will give internet service providers (ISPs) a duty to cut off illegal file-sharers, in the much-heralded Digital Economy Bill, which also gives Lord Mandelson the power to alter copyright law.

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2. Detainees at Camp in Iraq Use Favre To Tease Wisconsin Soldiers 13 minutes ago   permalink

Detainees at Camp in Iraq Use Favre To Tease Wisconsin Soldiers
Www.620wtmj.com

BAGHDAD - It seems that the Brett Favre-Green Bay Packers saga is such a worldwide phenomenon that it's being used by detainees in American military camps.

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3. As W C Fields Is Reported To Have Said 4 hours ago   permalink

Unitedconservatives.blogspot.com

Short and sweet, I had a serious heart attack on Wednesday night. I'm in the hospital, hooked up to a bunch of tubes. I have had a catheterization done and a stint put in, but there is still some blockage. So next Wednesday the doctors are going to do a little carving and install some new parts. No big deal.

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4. AFACT v iiNet: Tiny Bits of BitTorrent Transfers Aren’t Illegal 31 minutes ago   permalink

AFACT v iiNet: Tiny Bits of BitTorrent Transfers Aren’t Illegal
Torrentfreak.com

IiNet’s chief barrister argued today that there is insufficient evidence to show that when customers shared movies using BitTorrent, they shared “substantial parts” of said material, an essential requirement for proving infringement. Furthermore, in order to verify AFACT claims, iiNet itself would have to infringe copyright.

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5. Checking In 50 minutes ago   permalink

Checking In
Blackfive / BLACKFIVE

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Sean Cain, with Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, performs a radio check during a security patrol in the Nawa district of the Helmand province, Afghanistan, on Nov. 9, 2009. The 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment is a ground combat element deployed with Regimental Combat Team 7, which conducts ...

6. Popping Pink Smoke 1 hour ago   permalink

Popping Pink Smoke
Blackfive / BLACKFIVE

Students in the Combat Airman Skills Training Course use a smoke diversion tactic while practicing patrol maneuvers on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., Nov. 12, 2009. U.S. airmen assigned to the 421st Combat Training Squadron teach the course to prepare airmen for upcoming deployments. The squadron is assigned to the U.S. Air Force ...

7. They still walk among us 2 hours ago   permalink

Greyhawk / Mudville Gazette

Lieberman: General Keane... Do you think that political correctness may have played some role in the fact that these dots were not connected? The first two words of the general's response were "Yes, absolutely". But there were more, including these:But in fairness to many of the people who are associating with him, based on what preliminary ...

8. Breaking News Story: Hadley CRU has apparently been hacked – hundreds of files released 2 hours ago   permalink

Breaking News Story: Hadley CRU has apparently been hacked – hundreds of files released
Wattsupwiththat.com

The details on this are still sketchy, we’ll probably never know what went on. But it appears that Hadley Climate Research Unit has been hacked and many many files have been released by the hacker or person unknown

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Armed Liberal / Winds of Change.NET :   Wow. Just Wow.

9. NPR's Daniel Schorr Blames The Internet For Ft. Hood Shootings 2 hours ago   permalink

Mike Masnick / Techdirt

I recognize that NPR news analyst Daniel Schorr is well into his tenth decade of life, and plays the role of the "senior statesman of journalism" on NPR at times, but as a bunch of folks have sent in, he seems to have totally lost it with his recent piece suggesting the internet should share some of the blame for the Ft. Hood shootings done by Maj.

10. A chapter of “When the People Speak” is now online 3 hours ago   permalink

Howard Rheingold / Smart Mobs

I have persuaded Jim Fishkin to put the introductory chapter of his important new book, “When The People Speak: Deliberative Democracy & Public Consultation” online. For those who think that the idea of improving the publish sphere by putting together citizens with varying political views in the presence of solid information and ...

11. Overland Journal 4 hours ago   permalink

Overland Journal
Cc / Cool Tools

Last month I helped out a guy stuck on Tioga pass get his vegetable oil powered Gelaendewagen back on the road. He showed me a copy Overland Journal and I was so impressed I subscribed and ordered all the back issues once I got home. To give you an idea of the flavor of the magazine, one of the contributing editors is the author of my previously ...

12. Seven Reasons to Give Thanks That the World Didn't End This Year 8 hours ago   permalink

P.M. / Thomas P.M. Barnett :

Economic meltdown? Social anarchy? World War III? Go humbug yourself. Our foreign-policy analyst looks back on the 2009 fears that weren't, so we can all count our global blessings this holiday season. Continue reading this week's World War Room column at Esquire.com.

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Seven Reasons to Give Thanks That the World Didn't End This Year   —  Economic meltdown? Social anarchy? World War III? Go humbug yourself. Our foreign-policy analyst looks back on the 2009 fears that weren't, so we can all count our global blessings this holiday season.

13. When the Iranian clergy switch sides 11 hours ago   permalink

P.M. / Thomas P.M. Barnett :

ARTICLE: Future Perfect , By Geneive Abdo, Newsweek , Nov 18, 2009 This fits nicely with the mullahs-have-lost-power scenario unfolding. Khamenei has so sold his soul to the Revolutionary Guard that the clergy are slowly coming to the conclusion that the faith would be better served detached from the government. When this happens, a major ...

14. Newspapers want enemies, not friends 22 hours ago   permalink

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine

On today’s On Point, Michael Wolff, Steve Brill, and I talked about Murdoch and Google and the show’s blog quoted me thusly: But News Corp isn’t the only one making the mistake here. I think the mistake that Google has made in this – and I’m an admirer of Google, I wrote a book to that [...]

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Newspapers want enemies, not friends Google vs. Murdoch   —  Murdoch’s target is the biggest kid on the Internet block: Google. The News Corp chief says Google has essentially been stealing the news from companies like his and giving it away for free. It’s got to stop, he says.

Www.onpointradio.org
Michael Wolff and Jeff Jarvis on Murdoch v. Google   —  We had a rousing -- at times heated — discussion this morning on Rupert Murdoch’s threat to block news content from Google, and what it means about the whole future of news, with Michael Wolff, Jeff Jarvis, and Steven Brill.

15. "WuzUp?" 23 hours ago   permalink

Fmpub.net / John Battelle

From Biz' post on Twitter's shift: Twitter helps you share and discover what's happening now among all the things, people, and events you care about. "What are you doing?" isn't the right question anymore—starting today, we've shortened it by two characters. Twitter now asks, "What's happening?" Well, regardless of...

16. UAE Orders PC-21 Turboprop Trainers 1 day ago   permalink

UAE Orders PC-21 Turboprop Trainers
Joe Katzman / Defense Industry Daily

Pilatus PC-21 (click to view full) During the 2009 Dubai airshow, the United Arab Emirates signed a contract with Pilatus to buy 25 PC-21 intermediate trainer aircraft, in a package worth $511... [summary]

17. Selling Museums to a Tough Audience: Teens 1 day ago   permalink

Selling Museums to a Tough Audience: Teens
Spotlight.macfound.org

Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation invites museum directors to re-imagine museums in a digital world. It was about 2 p.m., before the chocolate and coffee arrived, when I first recognized the familiar signs. Scowls, glazed eyes, Post-It notes scattered everywhere, long dead pauses, chins in hands. The group had reached the creative ...

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18. Neti Pot 1 day ago   permalink

Neti Pot
Cc / Cool Tools

My brother-in-law introduced me to the neti pot, for nasal irrigation, about three years ago. He had had chronic sinus infections that have largely stopped since he started using it. Since I began using it, I’ve had fewer illnesses and just breathe easier. I used to take decongestants regularly in order to sleep soundly (due to mild ...

19. Up to $233M to BAE Systems for SPAWAR C4ISR Systems Support 1 day ago   permalink

Fred Donovan / Defense Industry Daily

BAE Systems received a contract worth up to $233 million to support the US Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) with engineering services, production engineering,... [summary]

20. Gulf States Requesting ABM-Capable Systems 1 day ago   permalink

Gulf States Requesting ABM-Capable Systems
Joe Katzman / Defense Industry Daily

Patriot PAC-2 (click to view full) A 2007 US National Intelligence Assessment [redacted NIE summary] believes Iran’s nuclear program has stopped, but others, including the United Nations and... [summary]