Edshugeo The GodMoor

What is this world coming to? I dunno, but I like it. Celebrity porno, even if they were fakes (lookalikes) is a category that deserves to be a genre unto itself, ...or is it already? At least, if it wasn't for the fact that porno producers are generally lazy. And lookalikes rarely look that much like the celeb they impersonate.

The Marilyn Monroe film is reportedly authentic (it better be for 1.5 million), but will be kept out of circulation. The Jimi Hendrix video has at least one doubter, but will be made public.

Yay!

Labels: Awesome, fun, media, porn

Okay, it's not terrorism, continuing assaults on our freedoms, or way out of control illegal immigration, but still.

Time Warner said on Wednesday that it was going to start testing a new rate plan in Beaumont that would limit the amount of bandwidth each customer can use each month before additional fees kick in. Alexander Dudley, a Time Warner spokesman, said that the exact terms had not been set, but that packages would probably offer between 5 gigabytes and 40 gigabytes a month. The top plan would cost roughly the same as the company’s highest-speed service, which typically runs between $50 and $60 a month.

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Labels: bittorrent, bullshit, computers, downloads, media, technology

Ms. Malik has avoided prison, which is good. Not so good is that she is still a convicted criminal, if not for writing poetry, then "of collecting information, without reasonable excuse, of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism."

Right.

I didn't make any time to write any terror poems or songs, but I did record myself reading Samina Malik's "How To Behead" five times. Four before work, and once after. None of them turned out particularly well (flubbed lines and other stuff), but I uploaded the last two to YouTube, anyhow.





The poem can be read here.
Wanna download the Al Qaeda Manual? Here, but if you live in the U.K., you can be arrested for it.

Labels: civil rights, Fascism, fun, media, politics, society, terrorism, These pictures will come back to haunt me one day, World Affairs, youtube

This is a bit disturbing. The BBC has posted a story about a woman who has been convicted (in the UK) of possessing terrorist manuals and writing Jihadist poetry.

She had posted her poems on websites under the screen name the Lyrical Terrorist, prosecutors said.

Malik said the poems were "meaningless", but prosecutor Jonathan Sharp said: "These communications strongly indicate Samina Malik was deeply involved with terrorist related groups."

Police said they had found a "library" of Islamist literature in her bedroom including The Al-Qaeda Manual and The Mujahideen Poisons Handbook.

Sounds like guilt by association or consorting with witches. Not that I'm a big fan of Islamist groups, but I don't like this at all.

However... buried deep in the story was this little tidbit;

She also tried to donate money to a terrorist group.

That does seem like a serious charge and one worthy of jail time. The other stuff at best, should have inspired the authorities to keep a watch on her activities and those of her friends.

I just wonder if the other stuff was over played to generate more sympathy.

"She had the ideology, ability and determination to access and download material, which could have been useful to terrorists. Merely possessing this material is a serious criminal offence."

Hmmm. Or not.

Labels: bullshit, civil rights, Fascism, Islam, media, politics

From an email sent by freepress.net:

What if I told you we could use empty TV channels to connect millions of Americans to the Internet?

New technology would do just that. But the powerful TV broadcast lobby is standing in the way with a multimillion-dollar misinformation campaign designed to deny us one of our last, best chances to connect the nation.

The Federal Communications Commission is about to make a critical choice: support a better Internet for everyone or side with the broadcasters and let the United State slide further behind the rest of the world in Web access.

Tell the FCC: Open the Internet for Everyone

The fight for universal Internet access is now being waged over "white spaces" -- empty frequencies between television channels on the public airwaves. New devices can use these vacant airwaves to connect millions to the information superhighway, including many people still stuck on dial-up -- or without any service at all.

Here's the problem. The National Association of Broadcasters wants to keep white spaces for themselves. This week, they're blitzing Washington with television ads and lobbyists. They're making outright false claims that any new devices will interfere with over-the-air TV broadcasts.

Their scare tactics are aimed at convincing the FCC and Congress to stifle new technologies that can revolutionize our airwaves. Unless we act now, the FCC could side with the broadcasters and deny us one of our last opportunities to deliver a better Internet to more people.

Take Action: Open White Spaces for Everyone

It's a familiar story. Big media companies will use any means to squash new ideas that threaten their control. For too long, our policymakers put the narrow interests of a few conglomerates before innovation, competition and the public good.

Last year we sent 1.5 million letters to Congress and halted the phone and cable industry efforts to kill Net Neutrality. This year, we're fighting to make the Internet available and affordable to everyone. Opening up white spaces is key to creating the healthy competition, consumer choices and technological innovation we need to provide an open Internet to all.

We can win this fight. Take action to open white spaces today.

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Labels: media, politics, solutions?, technology

China has found a unique way to fuck with the Dali Lama. (Thanks James Hudnall)

Speaking of reincarnation, one of my favorite entertainment news blogs, Kaiju Shakedown has returned. For like a month now. The old URL has a bunch of Variety Asia stories with a link to the actual blog somewhere on the side of the page. I forget why (or maybe it was an accident) but I clicked on it in my bookmarks and found it. Was pissed to see all this other crap on the page, cuz the old blog was supposed to stay up. So I clicked on the KS link just to see if the bastards had simply replaced Grady Hendrix and woah! It's back with new shit. Cool.

The new URL looks too complicated to be permanent, so I live bookmarked it (subscribed to the RSS feed.

Labels: blogs, civil rights, funny-ass shit, media

You gotta read this...

Labels: funny-ass shit, media, society

Swiped from SaveTheInternet.com:

On Thursday, some members of the SavetheInternet.com Coalition came forward with a plan to make the Internet more neutral, open and affordable for everyone.

A centerpiece of the plan is the use of newly available public “spectrum,” which can deliver high-speed Internet signals almost everywhere in the country.

Take Action: The Public Airwaves for the Public Good

Most people haven’t heard about this issue, or know that such valuable airwaves are up for grabs.

This is important stuff. What’s at stake is the future of communications in our country.

Here’s where things stand:

This broad slice of spectrum once beamed the Brady Bunch, The Cosby’s, Charlie’s Angels and the A-Team into tens of millions of homes. The inevitable switch from analog to digital TV means that this precious air is now available for other uses.

The government hopes that revenues from its sale (anticipated to be as high as $30 billion) will help pay down the national deficit, especially high since we went to war in Iraq

The Federal Communications Commission is now deciding how to structure its sale. The federal agency has the power to attach conditions to the use of our air; As it’s public domain, we have the right to demand that it serve the public interest.

If used right, this new spectrum could revolutionize the ways we connect to one another — and to laptops, cell phones, PDAs, music players and other mobile Internet devices. It can deliver a wireless Internet into your house without the need for a telephone wire or cable modem.

Its signal passes through concrete buildings and over mountains; and can connect tens of million of Americans that are now ignored by wire-line Internet “incumbents” such as AT&T, Verizon and Comcast.

Here’s the rub. Phone and cable lobbyists are pressuring the FCC to hand over our airwaves to their bosses. They plan to horde spectrum and stifle competitive and cheaper alternatives to their legacy networks.

This would be a disaster. After years of phone and cable company control over our Internet marketplace, the United States has fallen to 15th in the world in high-speed Internet rankings, with few choices and some of the highest prices for the slowest speeds in the world. We will continue to fall as long as we let phone and cable execs dictate Internet access for more than 96 percent of American users.

It’s really important that we spread the word and get more people involved in telling the FCC how our spectrum should be used.

We don’t want more of the same. These airwaves should be employed for the public good. They should be used to develop a wireless alternative to the telephone-cable market duopoly.

Yesterday, member groups — including Consumer Federation of America, Free Press, Media Access Project, Public Knowledge and US PIRG — urged the FCC “to ensure that new spectrum is offered on an open and nondiscriminatory basis.” (You can read their full filing by clicking here.)

With open networks, the rest of the world has rapidly adopted high-speed, Internet platforms for education, economic innovation, creativity and civic participation. Countries like South Korea, Japan, France, Canada have leapfrogged the United States and now offer faster Internet connections at far lower prices.

It’s time we caught up.

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Labels: media, politics, solutions?

I kinda don't care one way or another. Not a fan. I defend his right to free speech, of course, and see no difference in how he's been exercising it between now and the last three decades. So, why now?

For me, the issue's the FCC and it's need to regulate speech on the public airwaves. I would prefer to do away with it, but that probably isn't happening anytime soon. Haven't listened to the radio in ages anyway.

I was looking for an old TV ad I remembered from the early eighties that featured Imus and station-mate Howard Stern apologizing to all of the various groups they've insulted, a long list that of course included blacks, gays, catholics, jews, etc., etc.

Couldn't find it, but I did find this one which delivered a similar sentiment.

For the hell of it, an eighties profile of Howard Stern, with a guest appearance from Don Imus on local TV station WOR (channel 9) and another channel 9 broadcast made in the aftermath of Stern being fired from WNBC.

For a recap on the recent controversy (including video), I direct you to Bol.

April 14th, 07 - Oops. FCC's got nothin' to do with this. I've mixed feelings about his being fired;
On the one hand, fuck him. On the other, where does this culture of outrage over bullshit end?

Labels: bullshit, civil rights, hypocrisy, media, nostalgia, politics, tv, youtube

From East South West North -

7:17 (05/03/2006) As noted by Kalos Kagathos, there was something strange about 7:17am, April 26, 2006.

According to Ming Pao (via Yahoo! News), at 7:17am on this day in Shau Kei Wan district (Hong Kong island), a 34-year-old topless female climbed out onto the ledge of the 13th floor of the building. The fire department arrived in five minutes, and a fireman climbed down on a rope to pull her back into the apartment.


In the same story, it was also stated that at 7:17am on this day in Ma On Shan district (New Territories), a 32-year-old totally nude female jumped out of her apartment window and killed herself.


What is so special about 7:17am? Was this an amazing coincidence? Or did Ming Pao employed literary license to embellish?

In the first story, it was unclear about when the female got out. The 7:17am may be the time when the emergency service telephone operator received the call, and the incident itself began some time ago with a heated quarrel between the female and the boyfriend. Furthermore, the event also lasted a few minutes afterwards before the fireman effected the rescue. So 7:17am was just one moment within an episode that lasted quite a few minutes.

In the second story, nobody actually saw or heard the female jumping. All the other newspapers reported "around 7am." Again, the 7:17am may be the time when the emergency service telephone operator received the call.

So maybe there there wasn't a really precise coincidence after all. But it made for a good read within a single story that covered both incidents.

Labels: China, media, odd

This article says pornography to go is a no-brainer, but oddly enough, I never saw this coming. I liked the idea of the video iPod when I first heard about it and I like porn. I don't care much for the idea of carrying "Rocco Ravishes Europe" or anything by Max Hardcore in my pocket, though. My feeling is that iPod porn will soon make headlines in the context of it's use by students in classrooms. I have to worry too, about whether or not public masturbation becomes more convenient and thus more prevalent. I take public transportation. And public restrooms, fuggedaboutit!
Anyway, I still don't have an iPod nor any of the other portable mini music players as of yet. I have a portable cd player that plays mp3s on CD. While the video iPod sounds cool, I may be leaning toward the Sony PSP, which plays games as well as video. I'll probably get one around January-ish. I haven't had a close up look at either product, but I assume the screen sizes will make watching subtitled movies troublesome. That's kinda an issue for me. Also the price.
iTunes is selling video downloads for $1.99 or something. That seems a bit much, but people appear to be buying 'em. Plus a more reasonable price point might have people questioning the 99 cents they're charging for music downloads. Tough to argue with success, though. Besides, there are alternatives for the resourceful among us. "Nudge, nudge, say no more"...

Labels: downloads, media, porn, PSP, society, technology

I hate it when news anchor-people pretend to be hard hitting journalists. I was just watching an interview on CNN between her and Ward Churchill, a professor who's made some controversial remarks regarding the victims of 9/11. It was a joke (the interview, not his comments). She apparently thought she was talking to Howard Stern, and seemed ill equipped to discuss some of the actual issues brought up in the "conversation".

Disregard the title. Zahn is no worse than the tons of other infotainment talking heads on CNN and other "news" channels and the networks themselves.

Labels: bullshit, Fucking Idiots, media, politics, terrorism, tv

There's some talk of Howard Dean running for the head of the Democratic National Committee. The talking heads to the right are saying that if this happens, it would be great for the Republican Party. Same thing they said about his possible nomination to the democratic ticket earlier this year (or was that last year?).

Maybe they're right. Maybe a move too far to the left would hurt the Dems and strengthen the repubs even further. I can't say for sure.
I am a bit suspicious of all their talk, though. I can't help but read fear in all their posturing, but that's probably just me.

The right wing are, of course, generous with their advice. The big problem is that the Dems are way too easy at taking advice. So in 2000 Gore adds Lieberman to his ticket for a dose of relatively conservative values or some bullshit and then the campaign distances themselves from the popular (though controversial) Clinton administration, of which Gore was a part. They lose. Even if you *think* they won, the margin of victory would've been so small, that it wouldn't even be worth mentioning.

When the Dean campaign caught fire during the primaries, the word "electability" seemed to become a new buzzword with a purpose towards placing doubt on his chances in a national election. Right-wingers spoke words that indicated that they'd be shit faced with glee if the Dems were to dare nominate this hippie loon to the candidacy, but I sensed fear. Again, maybe it was just me.

The conventional wisdom in the democratic party had been that three time losers like Gephardt or Kerry would be the best choice to run against Bush, so perhaps they saw a threat in Dean as well. I would've prefered to see Dean run, whatever the outcome. It would've been a real contest rather than the farce we got. At least it would've been a more entertaining farce.

I don't really care who ends up leading the DNC, I'm just fascinated with the strange responses I see to Howard Dean. Makes me think there's something bigger happening. Again, that's probably just me.

Labels: bullshit, media, politics