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Drew Curtis' FARK.com

Drew Curtis' FARK.com 02/19/2004 03:22 PM

King/Drew Trauma Unit Faces Closure (Los
Angeles Times)

King/Drew Trauma Unit Faces Closure (Los
Angeles Times) 09/14/2004 05:43 AM
Los Angeles Times - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Monday unexpectedly moved to shut down the trauma unit at Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center, immediately drawing the ire of physicians, politicians and community activists.

FARK.com: Comments Thingee (824183)

FARK.com: Comments Thingee (824183) 02/13/2004 07:16 AM
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Who's wooing the Burger King Moms?

Who's wooing the Burger King Moms? 06/04/2004 12:07 PM

Porno Hen Hawks for Burger King

Porno Hen Hawks for Burger King 04/14/2004 05:14 AM
Give Burger King credit. Its attempt to advertise chicken sandwiches on the Web by setting up an ersatz webcam porn studio could have been a cheesy flop. Instead, its Subservient Chicken website is a hit. By Chris Ulbrich.

Burger King cooks up music deal with AOL

Burger King cooks up music deal with AOL 09/09/2004 07:22 AM
Chart toppers with Whoppers

Visiting BURGER KING® Becomes a
Multimedia Experience

Visiting BURGER KING® Becomes a
Multimedia Experience 12/19/2004 03:14 PM
Scala Inc., the leading provider of digital signage control software, announces installation of InfoChannel® as BURGER KING’s digital signage software solution. [PRWEB Dec 16, 2004]

Burger King Says Web Chicken Won't Go
Mainstream (Reuters)

Burger King Says Web Chicken Won't Go
Mainstream (Reuters) 05/10/2004 05:54 PM
Reuters - Burger King, the world's No. 2 hamburger chain, is moving forward with plans to capitalize on the success of its offbeat "Subservient Chicken" Web site while making sure to keep its hero below the mainstream radar.

Burger King Sandwich Packs the Calories
(AP)

Burger King Sandwich Packs the Calories
(AP) 03/28/2005 12:36 PM
AP - Burger King began offering two new breakfast sandwiches Monday, including one that packs more calories and fat than a Whopper.

Food Porn -- Burger King Subservient
Chicken

Food Porn -- Burger King Subservient
Chicken 04/09/2004 04:05 PM
BoingBoing reader aeon points us to a bizarre marketing move by junk-food empire Burger King:

...For when "your way" calls for an enslaved chicken, Burger King invites you to "have chicken your way" by offering you the newest in ads even veteran AdBusters won't want to bust: The Subservient Chicken. He "riverdances", he "throws pillows", he "builds forts" and he even takes "bonghits". He's technically a rooster, but let's not worry about that when we can tell him to "play air guitar", "moonwalk", or "grab crotch like michael jackson." The Subservient Chicken: more than a furry's dream come true, more than a timewaster for stoned college kids; this method of advertizing just begs to be copied like so many memes. Plus, you can tell him to "die".

How very interesting. I wonder if the ad execs who came up with this realize (a) the Internet is so weird that genuine furry submissive fetish poultry sites with live webcams already exist, and (b) (this is absolutely true) legendary porn magnate Larry Flynt claims to have lost his virginity to a chicken? If so, the new Burger King campaign is extra-creepy, hold the fries. And if not, they really ought to be reading more BoingBoing. Link to Subserrvient Chicken

Update: BoingBoing reader Bobby Martin says, "For the obsessive compulsive, we've started a list of things the subservient chicken will and won't do. It's on a wiki, so you can sign up and add your quirky/interesting/fucking weird discoveries to the list for all to see." Excerpts:
Will Do: poop | macarena | lol | fart | lay an egg | hokey pokey
Will do, sort of: flip me off | masturbate | get funky | tear the place up
Won't do: barf | hurtle the couch or jump over it | vacuum
Link

UPDATE HERE

"Ananova - Burger King customers told:
'You are too fat to have a ..."

"Ananova - Burger King customers told:
'You are too fat to have a ..." 01/09/2004 09:56 PM

Wired News: Fark Sells Out. France
Surrenders

Wired News: Fark Sells Out. France
Surrenders 08/08/2004 03:24 AM
Wired News: Fark Sells Out. France Surrenders .. reports .. Fark

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Burger King, AOL join digital music
'burger war'

Burger King, AOL join digital music
'burger war' 09/08/2004 08:57 AM
Techzonez Sep 8 2004 1:27PM GMT

New Burger King breakfast offering
outdoes Whopper - Mar. 28, 2005

New Burger King breakfast offering
outdoes Whopper - Mar. 28, 2005 03/29/2005 06:54 AM
New Burger King breakfast offering outdoes Whopper - Mar. 28, 2005 .. Enormous Omelet Sandwich .. Good Morning Burger .. CNN

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Ananova - Burger King customers told:
'You are too fat to have a Whopper'

Ananova - Burger King customers told:
'You are too fat to have a Whopper' 01/09/2004 10:10 PM
ANANOVA: Burger King customers told: 'You are too fat to have a Whopper' .. international news

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Fark posts 1,000,000th link, Web
surrenders

Fark posts 1,000,000th link, Web
surrenders 06/17/2004 11:36 AM
Congrats to Fark for post its 1,000,000th link! Link (Thanks, frigg!)

Vintage Photo Archives: 1980 Burger King
Collector Glasses

Vintage Photo Archives: 1980 Burger King
Collector Glasses 06/24/2004 01:39 AM
Continuing our look at the classic Star Wars Burger King Collector Glasses, today's Photo Archives update is from the second series from 1980. based on their appearances in The Empire Strikes Back, each of the four glasses feature profiles and original artwork of R2-D2 & C-3PO, Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, and Lando Calrissian.

Vintage Photo Archives: 1977 Burger King
Collector Glasses

Vintage Photo Archives: 1977 Burger King
Collector Glasses 06/23/2004 10:57 AM
Now that we've featured the Target Collectible Figures And Cups, we turn our Photo Archives today back to the inspiration for the line...the classic Star Wars Burger King Collector Glasses from 1977. Each of the four glasses feature profiles and original artwork of Darth Vader, R2-D2 & C-3PO, Luke Skywalker, and Chewbacca. Collectors could get a new glass each week at Burger King stores with a drink purchase.

Vintage Photo Archives: 1983 Burger King
Collector Glasses

Vintage Photo Archives: 1983 Burger King
Collector Glasses 06/25/2004 04:13 AM
Concluding our look at the classic Star Wars Burger King Collector Glasses, today's Photo Archives update is from the third series from 1983. Based on their appearances in Return of the Jedi, each of the four glasses feature original artwork and focuses on a scene from the film: Jabba's Court, the Sarlacc Pit (along with an Endor bunker Han Solo), the Ewok Village, and the Emperor's Throne Room.

Wireless prank - Burger King customers
told: 'You are too fat to have a
Whopper'

Wireless prank - Burger King customers
told: 'You are too fat to have a
Whopper' 01/09/2004 09:56 PM
"Police believe teenage pranksters are hacking into the wireless frequency of a US Burger King drive-through speaker to tell potential customers they are too fat for fast food. Policeman Gerry Scherlink said the pranksters told one customer who had just placed an order: 'You don't need a couple of Whoppers. You are too fat. Pull ahead.'" Link (Thanks, Jim!)

The Web site of Burger King's
Subservient Chicken ad campaign found to
take X-rated orders

The Web site of Burger King's
Subservient Chicken ad campaign found to
take X-rated orders 04/10/2004 08:47 AM
subserviant chicken reverse engineered .. un-censoring the R-rated ones .. Boing Boing .. weird

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Cory responds to Wired Editor on DRM

Cory responds to Wired Editor on DRM 12/29/2004 06:33 PM
Cory Doctorow: Chris Anderson, the Editor-in-Chief of Wired Magazine, has responded to my blog-post in which I take issue with Wired's latest product-review magazine, which breathes hardly a mention of DRM even as it reviews devices that are all crapped up with studio-paranoia-generated restriction technology.

Chris takes a "middle ground" position that I've heard described as "radical centrism" -- his position is that the EFF's opposition to DRM is "idealistic" and that there is therefore a practical "reality" that is better suited to the world. I think it's a false dichotomy, and I'd like to have a little go at Chris's post here and see if I can show why:

Consumers want more content, easier-to-use technology, and cheaper prices. If some form of DRM encourages publishers, consumer electronics makers and retailers to release more, better and cheaper digital media and devices, that's not necessarily a bad thing. This is just being realistic: much as we might want it to be otherwise, content owners still call most of the shots. If a little protection allows them to throw their weight behind a lot of progress towards realizing the potential of digital media, consumers will see a net benefit.

This is the crux of the argument. It starts out by saying that DRM is protection. And protection makes Hollywood comfortable. And a comfortable Hollywood will release more material. And the more material there is, the cheaper it will get.

But all of those propositions are materially untrue. Start with "DRM is protection." DRM is not protection. There has never been a DRM-covered file that was kept off the Internet. Ever. DRM has never once in the history of the field kept a file from appearing online, or from being booted by organized crime pirates. Despite its rhetoric on this, Hollywood is perfectly aware of how bogus the DRM-is-protection claim is; any entertainment exec you put on this spot on this will retreat to a badly-thought-out mantra to the effect that "DRM is a speedbump, it's not meant to keep files off the Internet, it's meant to 'keep honest users honest.'" As Ed Felten has pointed out, keeping an honest user honest is like keeping a tall user tall. DRM may keep a naive user from buying a cheap DVD abroad and bringing it home, and it may make it possible to charge you for things that you used to get for free, like format-shifting, but it won't ever keep an honest user honest.

DRM isn't protection from piracy. DRM is protection from competition. If you believe that "much as we might want it to be otherwise, content owners still call most of the shots," then you believe that the guy who makes the record should get a veto over the design of the record player. That the film studios should be able to ban the VCR. That the recording industry should have been able to shove SDMI down all our throats and make MP3 disappear.

This is a profoundly ahistorical proposition. Never in the history of media from the dawn of the printing press right up to the invention of the DVD have we afforded this kind of privilege to incumbent rightsholders. Quite the contrary: at every turn, brave entrepreneurs have engaged in "piracy" of copyrighted works (through devices like the record player, radio, cable television and VCR) and kept at it until the law caught up with the technology.

It's different with the DVD. With the DVD, the electronics companies completely wimped out. They traded their customers to the studios for two packs of cigarettes, and the result has been a decade of stagnation in DVD players. There's no indication that movies are being released sooner or more cheaply on DVD than they were on VHS; and in fact, the release of movies on VHS was preceded by incredible, absurd hyperbole about the video-cassette's inevitable destruction of the film industry and the compelte impossibility of a movie ever being released by a studio for viewing on your VCR.

If you believe that "content owners still call most of the shots" then you believe that the studios will make movies and just not release them, they will amass a great pile of unreleased material in their Hollywood vaults and sit before the doors, arms folded, glaring at the world until it arranges itself into a more accomodating configuration. It is ridiculous. DRM hasn't convinced the studios to put new material online -- the offerings that the studios have put online are a pathetic shadow of the material one can download from the P2P networks. The studios have all the DRM in the universe at their disposal, but they're not using it to bring new material to market.

Nope, they're using it to sell you the same crap for more money. Chris loves his Microsoft Media Center PC, "essentially a DVR on steroids" -- at least, he loves it so far. That's because he hasn't been bitten on the ass by it yet, like this guy, who bought a Media Center PC so that he could catch the Sopranos and burn them to DVD. When he bought the PC, it was capable of doing that. Halfway through the season, the studios reached into his living room and broke his PC, disabling the feature that allowed him to burn his Sopranos episodes to DVD. And if you got suckered into letting your cable company give you a "free" PVR, you've got a nasty shock coming this season: your episodes of Six Feet Under will delete themselves from your hard drive after two weeks, whether you've gotten around to watching them or not.

If you want to watch all the Sopranos or Six Feet Unders in a row at the end of the season, you'll have to do it on Pay Per View. You'll have to buy what you used to get for free: the right to record a show and watch it for as long as you'd like. You get less, you pay more. And the studios can change the rules of the game after you've bought the box and brought it home: the only way you can protect your investment is if you can somehow ensure that no studio executive decides to revoke one of the features you paid for back when the box was on the show-room floor. Remember, these are the same studio execs who are duking it out for the right to limit how long a pause button can work for.

Chris likes the iTunes Music Store, calling it a success, but it's got the same problems as the Media Center and all the other DRM devices. The record labels can demand that Apple selectively break your music player, removing features based on secret negotiations, long after you've made your purchases. Apple will even force "updates" on you that removes features that you've chosen to add to your device, shutting you out of listening to your own music on the player you shelled out good money for.

The problem is that once your device vendor sells you out to the studios, they're 0wned. The studios' protection racket lets them demand practically anything from a device vendor -- check out "selectable output control" for some truly heinous world-domination horseshit.

So, Chris, that's why I disagree with your "realistic" notion:

• There's no reason to believe that DRM makes more content available
• There's no reason to let the studios "call the shots" -- we haven't before this
• There's no reason to believe that DRM makes media cheaper, quite the contrary
• The features that make your "reasonable" DRM palatable to the market today can and are rescinded tomorrow

If I were in Chris's seat, I would be sure that every single review of a DRM device carried the following notice: WARNING: THIS DEVICE'S FEATURES ARE SUBJECT TO REVOCATION WITHOUT NOTICE, ACCORDING TO TERMS SET OUT IN SECRET NEGOTIATIONS. YOUR INVESTMENT IS CONTINGENT ON THE GOODWILL OF THE WORLD'S MOST PARANOID, TECHNOPHOBIC ENTERTAINMENT EXECS. THIS DEVICE AND DEVICES LIKE IT ARE TYPICALLY USED TO CHARGE YOU FOR THINGS YOU USED TO GET FOR FREE -- BE SURE TO FACTOR IN THE PRICE OF BUYING ALL YOUR MEDIA OVER AND OVER AGAIN. AT NO TIME IN HISTORY HAS ANY ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY GOTTEN A SWEET DEAL LIKE THIS FROM THE ELECTRONICS PEOPLE, BUT THIS TIME THEY'RE GETTING A TOTAL WALK. HERE, PUT THIS IN YOUR MOUTH, IT'LL MUFFLE YOUR WHIMPERS. Link

Boing Boing: Food Porn -- Burger King
Subservient Chicken

Boing Boing: Food Porn -- Burger King
Subservient Chicken 04/09/2004 04:08 PM
Food Porn -- Burger King Subservient Chicken .. Xeni @ BoingBoing points out .. boing boing description .. BoingBoing .. via

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Request for comments on a digital camera
article

Request for comments on a digital camera
article 06/22/2005 02:22 AM

I've written a primer for people buying a digital SLR camera system and would like feedback on how this could be improved before linking it from my main site.  Please comment!  Thanks in advance.

"Permanent link, comments (0)"

"Permanent link, comments (0)" 06/03/2004 12:21 PM

"Wired article on a new Mac virus"

"Wired article on a new Mac virus" 04/12/2004 03:24 PM

"[Link] Sun Feb 08 09:59 by SK
Bubba Comments: 1 (Last: 02/08/04 15:22
by scarshapedstar)"

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by scarshapedstar)" 02/11/2004 04:19 PM

John Shirley comments on Scientific
American article about "Tyranny of
Choice"

John Shirley comments on Scientific
American article about "Tyranny of
Choice" 04/26/2004 01:00 PM
Writer John Shirley has some interesting things to say about a new Scientific American article called "Tyranny of Choice" (paid subscription required to read article, you can read more about the article on Alternet.)

They suggest there are two basic types of choosers, Maximizers and Satisficers. The former aim to make the best possible choice in a near obsessive way, the latter tend to settle for 'good enough'. Maximizers spend a long time shopping, can't make up their minds what to buy for a gift, channel surf like a cokehead searching through the rug for fallen powder...

Maximizers in particular are prone to unhappiness in our society--there are too many choices, just too damn much input in general, and they can't deal with it. Satisficers are having a hard time too; they tend to go to lower stress options--and those are harder to find. But they're less likely to be depressed and suicidal.

Link

Wired 12.07: Copy This Article & Win
Quick Cash!

Wired 12.07: Copy This Article & Win
Quick Cash! 06/30/2004 09:43 AM
Wired tracks the "Bill Gates" e-mail hoax to its origin .. Copy This Article & Win Quick Cash! .. somebody tracked the fucker down .. ottaa selville

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why don't you provide a link to the
update download on the article?

why don't you provide a link to the
update download on the article? 09/17/2004 02:32 AM
TechTree Sep 17 2004 6:30AM GMT

Boing Boing: Cory responds to Wired
Editor on DRM

Boing Boing: Cory responds to Wired
Editor on DRM 12/30/2004 11:53 AM
Cory Doctorow Schools Chris Anderson in the evils of DRM .. Cory Doctorow on Digital Rights Management .. Cory responds to Wired Editor on DRM .. [Link]

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Wired News: Camera Phones Link World to
Web

Wired News: Camera Phones Link World to
Web 05/19/2004 01:31 AM
Semacode lets you use barcode-like prints to store URLs in the real world that can be picked up by Series 60 cameraphones .. interpreted by a camera phone photo .. Camera Phones Link World to Web .. Wired: Semacode

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Nethercomm Corporation Comments on
Forbes Article where Broadband-in-Gas
Stands out among Traditional Broadband
Technologies by Delivering Connectivity
of 100+Mbps

Nethercomm Corporation Comments on
Forbes Article where Broadband-in-Gas
Stands out among Traditional Broadband
Technologies by Delivering Connectivity
of 100+Mbps 06/05/2005 11:18 PM
Nethercomm Corporation Addresses Forbes Article "Seven Ways to get Traditional Broadband Services", which highlights Broadband-in-Gas, a Compelling Broadband Technology Enabling “Previously Unobtainable Levels of Connectivity of 100+Mbps” [PRWEB May 27, 2005]

Mad Drew: new Toothpaste for Dinner book

Mad Drew: new Toothpaste for Dinner book 12/12/2003 10:28 AM
Drew, the creator of the Toothpaste for Dinner comics and assorted humoribilia has a new book out, called "Mad Drew: Boyond Coffeedome." It recounts the life of a post-dot-crash temp with a near-autistic inability to understand his surroundings and a deadpan delivery that reminds me of Molesworth, by way of Office Space.

also i remembered how it is sometimes good to work when you can use things like the copy machine and stapler for free! i did not do a lot of copying when i was unemployed but now that i have a job i know that i can write things on a piece of paper and make a hundred copies of them and take them home and put them on telephone poles!! the power is amazing, if i want to tell all the poeple walking down the street to shut up then i can write SHUT UP in large letters on paper. using an office marker for free by the way!!! and then copy it and stable it to telephone poles USING AN OFFICE STAPLER, it is a dream come true!

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Dean Regrets 'Pain' Caused By
Confederate Flag Comments -- Sharpton On
Dean's Comments: 'Imagine If I Said That
I Wanted To Be The Candidate Of People
With Helmets And Swastikas'

Dean Regrets 'Pain' Caused By
Confederate Flag Comments -- Sharpton On
Dean's Comments: 'Imagine If I Said That
I Wanted To Be The Candidate Of People
With Helmets And Swastikas' 11/06/2003 08:49 AM
Dean backs down .. AP

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Collector's Collections Gallery: Drew
Kantorik

Collector's Collections Gallery: Drew
Kantorik 07/15/2004 01:28 AM
Today's Collector's Collections update features items from the collection of Drew Kantorik from Smock, Pennsylvania. As you can se, Drew loves to collect Boba Fett and Jango Fett collectibles. If you'd like to see your collection featured here at Rebelscum, send me your name, location, and pictures of your collection, and I'll add your gallery for all the world to see.

Programs: Nancy Drew Finds Danger in
Whale Tale

Programs: Nancy Drew Finds Danger in
Whale Tale 02/14/2004 11:45 PM
Boston Globe Feb 15 2004 3:45AM GMT

"Drew Cope's Drum Machine, animated
Flash music"

"Drew Cope's Drum Machine, animated
Flash music" 01/04/2004 03:27 PM

Programs: Nancy Drew Finds Danger in
Whale Tale (Reuters)

Programs: Nancy Drew Finds Danger in
Whale Tale (Reuters) 02/14/2004 04:02 PM
Reuters - (Gene Emery is a columnist who covers science and technology. His Internet address is GEmery(at)Cox.net. Any opinions in the column are his alone.)
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