Saturday, January 07, 2012
Friday, January 06, 2012
OPEN Act - alternative to SOPA and PROTECT IP
Twitter, Facebook, and Google endorse alternate online piracy bill
Gautham Nagesh for The Hill - Eight of the largest Web companies have endorsed an online piracy bill offered by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) as an alternative to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and its Senate counterpart PROTECT IP.
The OPEN Act would direct online patent infringement claims against foreign websites to the International Trade Commission, which would be authorized to order online ad networks and payment processors to sever ties with the rogue foreign sites.
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How to lose weight by only...
How to lose weight by only lifting a finger. Continuing our Week After New Year's diettip hotline, we have found the most appealing weight-loss tactic of all time. One that involves very little moving. Writing for 15 minutes about important values, like religion, music, or relationships, caused women to lose more weight over the next few months than those who did no writing at all, found research published in Pyschological Science. Participants kept these values diaries lost an average of 3.41 pounds, compared to the 2.76 pounds gained by the control group. This is the exercise dream, folks. [Eureka]
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Monday, January 02, 2012
The Angel that presided
The Angel that presided 'oer my birth
by William Blake The Angel that presided 'oer my birth
Said, "Little creature, form'd of Joy and Mirth,
"Go love without the help of any Thing on Earth."
by William Blake The Angel that presided 'oer my birth
Said, "Little creature, form'd of Joy and Mirth,
"Go love without the help of any Thing on Earth."
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Sunday, January 01, 2012
Robert Mitchum - 1948.
Robert Mitchum sweeps his jail cell after getting busted for marijuana in 1948.
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