Golf Boom: Dead Land, Born Again
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EFF suing on JibJab's behalf for "This
Land is Your Land" parody
EFF suing on JibJab's behalf for "This
Land is Your Land" parody
08/02/2004 03:02 AMEFF has taken things one step further with JibJab and their endangered
political parody of This Land is Your Land (Woody Guthrie's copyright
holder has threatened to sue them for their work).
We're bringing the fight to Guthrie's rightsholders, and suing on
JibJab's behalf, "to defend JibJab's fair use and free speech rights."
Check out Donna's excellent and heavily linked post for more.
Link
EFF defending creators of This Land is
Your Land parody
EFF defending creators of This Land is
Your Land parody
07/29/2004 06:53 AMI'm proud to relate that EFF is representing Jib Jab, the creators of
the wonderful "This Land is Your Land"
Flash parody that aroused
the ire of the holder of Woody Guthrie's copyrights and resulted in a
threatened
lawuit. Here's a little bit of my cow-orker Fred von Lohmann's
letter to the copyright-holder's lawyers.
In your July 23 letter, you contend that "This Land" offers no
"satirical comment" on the Guthrie original. You are mistaken.
While your view of Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land" as being
predominantly about "the beauty of the American landscape" and "the
disenfranchisement of the underclass" is interesting, most Americans
think of the song as an iconic expression of the ideal of national
unity. Jib Jab's parody addresses, among other things, the lack of
national unity that characterizes our current political climate
(ending with the optimistic hope that unity might be rediscovered). In
short, "This Land" explores exactly the same themes as the Guthrie
original, using the parodic device of contrast and juxtaposition to
comment on the original. See Abilene Music v. Sony Music
Entertainment, 320 F .Supp.2d 84, 90-91 (S.D.N.Y. 2003) (emphasizing
the role of contrast and juxtaposition as parodic devices). The
parodic comment takes on an additional dimension of irony when viewed
in light of the often omitted closing stanzas of Guthrie's original.
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LinkThe Bush Boomlet: "the Bush boom rests
more on hope than hard data—and on a
pretty weak definition of a boom." 10/31
The Bush Boomlet: "the Bush boom rests
more on hope than hard data—and on a
pretty weak definition of a boom." 10/31
10/31/2003 08:16 AMIs the economy really booming? .. this one by Daniel Gross .. This
Salon article .. another
slate.msn.com/id/2090498
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CoD United Offensive boom boom
CoD United Offensive boom boom
09/20/2004 07:05 PMLuigi Auriemma (Sep 18 2004)
This Land Is St. Joe's Land
This Land Is St. Joe's Land
04/14/2005 03:32 PMReal estate will always be worth something. So, too, should the St.
Joe Company.
PHP-Help.net is born !
PHP-Help.net is born !
04/11/2005 03:27 AMPHP-Help.net is born today, a few days before Christmas.
Its main goal will be to build a database of explained PHP source
codes.
It is dedicated to both beginners and confirmed PHP developers:
It will bring to the new developper some PHP usage examples,
and allow experienced developers to submit their codes to community
in order to improve it. We hope you will enjoy our work,
Matt <matt@php-help.net>
A star is born
A star is born
07/23/2004 02:35 AMUSA Today Jul 23 2004 6:28AM GMT
Bukowski: Born Into This
Bukowski: Born Into This
05/28/2004 02:11 PM
"Wh
adyawant, motherf*ck?" These are the first words
Charles Bukowski speaks
in
John Dullaghan's
documentary about the
poet and
novelist,
fam
ous for his writing and infamous for his
drinking and
brawling and
screwing. The audience member might respond, "To hear
your story,
Han
k, that's what I want."
The movie
opens with friends (Sean Penn, Harry Dean Stanton, Bono) and
colleagues and lovers and fans
recounting the myth; theirs are stories of blades pulled on the
maitre d' of the swanky
Pol
o Lounge in Beverly Hills, of dangling dicks revealed in public,
of
a drunk
who'd just as soon crack his bottle over your head than share its
contents.
(more inside)
Impressionism, Born of the Sea
Impressionism, Born of the Sea
02/12/2004 10:12 PMThis innovative Impressionist exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of
Art correlates the fluidity of the sea with the loosening brushwork of
late-19th-century French painters.
Born-again phone
Born-again phone
03/13/2003 10:22 AMI want stuff that works. Not like my Ericsson mobile phone that just
decided to stop working. Less than two...
8,000 bl0ggers born every day
8,000 bl0ggers born every day
07/13/2004 06:49 AMOf which 2,880 annoy family, and 960 get sued
Ask Metafilter is born
Ask Metafilter is born
12/11/2003 12:30 AMask.metafilter.com
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Spam: Born In The USA
Spam: Born In The USA
08/12/2004 04:42 PMDirect and Related Links for 'Spam: Born In The
USA'
An analysis by messaging-filtering vendor CipherTrust says the
large majority of the world’s spam comes from a few spammers
within the United States. And yet when I set my spam filters to block
non-NA originating emails my spams dropped noticeably….
Dead, Dead, Dead. Someday Soon We'll All
Be Dead.
Dead, Dead, Dead. Someday Soon We'll All
Be Dead.
12/02/2003 10:13 PMI had a 120gig SATA Hard drive in my G5. It died. Dead blocks all
over. My last full backup...
Superman born in Germany?
Superman born in Germany?
06/24/2004 12:53 PM
Superman born in Germany? It appears that "the boy's mutant
DNA segment was found to block production of a protein called
myostatin that limits muscle growth."
"Now we can say that myostatin acts the same way in humans as in
animals," said the boy's physician, Dr. Markus Schuelke, a
professor in the child neurology department at Charite/University
Medical Center Berlin. "We can apply that knowledge to humans,
including trial therapies for muscular dystrophy."
Or other things... Born on the Fourth of July
Born on the Fourth of July
07/03/2004 02:18 AMMedia.us, the American Internet company, is opening its doors on the
Fourth of July.In advance of U.S Independence Day, Media.us is
granting businessmen the opportunity of enjoying full business
independence.www.media.us [PRWEB Jul 3, 2004]
Wilco -- A Ghost Is Born
Wilco -- A Ghost Is Born
04/16/2004 04:59 PM
Wilco -- A
Ghost is Born Forget SoulSeek or Limewire, stream the new Wilco
longplayer right from the source. [Previously discussed
here]
Launch Pad: Born-Again Heart
Launch Pad: Born-Again Heart
05/14/2004 03:11 PMTechnology Review May 14 2004 6:52PM GMT
sucker is born every minute
sucker is born every minute
09/15/2004 06:10 AMbikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=66128&page=1&pp=25
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In Nicaragua, a Language Is Born
In Nicaragua, a Language Is Born
09/20/2004 06:27 AMBabies Born With a Mission
Babies Born With a Mission
05/05/2004 05:28 AMA Chicago lab helps parents create five healthy babies to provide
stem-cell therapy for their diseased older siblings. The burgeoning
practice raises concerns about the ethics of pre-implantation genetic
screening.
Natural Born Killers of PHP
Natural Born Killers of PHP
10/28/2003 11:08 PMRecently I revised Optimizing PHP, an article that I wrote in 2002.
I'm pleased to say that it hasn't aged much. The changes I had to make
include a recommendation to use FastCGI with IIS, adding Turck MMCache
to the opcode cache list, recommending Cache_Lite, replacing foreach
with list/each for large arrays, and the realisation that arrays need
to be passed by reference too.
Then I realized how much more I could have discussed. I started to
think more about performance profiling after discussing APD in a
previous post.
Now there is some logic to the fact that functions with many lines of
code will run slower than ones which are short and brief.
However sometimes it's the shortest code snippet that cause the real
slowdowns. That's because these code snippets call external functions
that hide a lot of complexity behind a deceptively simple and light
exterior. With any of the following natural born killers, one
thoughtless line of code can result in a unbearable x100 times
slowdown:
SQL statements - for example, adding a simple ORDER BY clause to a
query could cause a massive slowdown because all records will have to
be obtained on the server and sorted first before it is sent to the
PHP client.
Regular expressions - because regular expressions work by
back-tracking when a match fails, its common for a regular expression
to be exponentially expensive to compute. The longer the string, the
worse it becomes.
Network calls - the increasing popularity of SOAP and similar
inefficient but easy-to-use protocols open up new vistas of
unscalability for the unwary.
Classic performance tuning techniques used by XDebug and APD give you
a summary of all functions with long execution times. This is useful,
but we need tools to easily pinpoint, measure and tune the overhead of
killers such as SQL statements, regular expressions and RPC calls. I
think that we already have enough Open Source CMS projects out there.
Tuning tools like this are great idea for students and developers with
time to kill, looking for an interesting Open Source project to start.
Oregon cat born with two faces
Oregon cat born with two faces
06/17/2005 04:19 PM
I'd call it
Zaphod. A kitten has been born with one brain, one skull, but two
faces. Picture
he
re.
Natural Born Chatter v2.9.7
Natural Born Chatter v2.9.7
03/19/2003 10:45 PMNatural Born Chatter is a multiple-mode user-friendly network
communication utility, including real-time chat, instant messaging and
exchange of files. It is intended to be used in small office or home
office (SOHO) local networks.
British-born astronaut given CBE
British-born astronaut given CBE
12/30/2004 09:56 PMThe British-born astronaut Michael Foale is rewarded in the New Year
Honours with a CBE in the diplomatic list.
Scientists see new species born
Scientists see new species born
06/09/2004 09:15 AMScientists studying flies that live off rotting cacti may have seen
the birth of a new species.
Panda "Born in the USA" (Reuters)
Panda "Born in the USA" (Reuters)
12/29/2003 11:41 PMReuters - Attention Bruce Springsteen: you have a friend at the San
Diego zoo.
Don't Strangle Businesses Before They're
Born
Don't Strangle Businesses Before They're
Born
05/03/2004 05:55 PMCuba: Reagan should never have been born
Cuba: Reagan should never have been born
06/07/2004 03:35 PMProNet: How GM's Blog Was Born
ProNet: How GM's Blog Was Born
06/17/2005 02:05 PMThough business blogs behind the firewall are exploding in popularity,
one of the areas that gets a lot of attention in business blogging is
having a public-facing blog, especially one written by a senior
executive. In most organizations, though, this...
Haggis, Born in TheUSA (Reuters)
Haggis, Born in TheUSA (Reuters)
01/22/2004 02:10 AMReuters - A tiny Scottish firm has teamed up with
a U.S. company to start the first industrial-scale production
in America of Scotland's national dish -- haggis.
NextFest 2004: Born to Ride
NextFest 2004: Born to Ride
05/18/2004 11:56 AMKennedys show off new-born baby
Kennedys show off new-born baby
04/12/2005 02:04 PMA "exceptionally happy" Charles Kennedy and wife Sarah leave hospital
with their new-born son, Donald James.
New 'Bushism' Born at Bill Signing (AP)
New 'Bushism' Born at Bill Signing (AP)
08/05/2004 12:10 PMAP - President Bush offered up a new entry for his catalog of
"Bushisms" on Thursday, declaring that his administration will "never
stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people."
Community News: Googlert is Born
Community News: Googlert is Born
01/22/2003 09:30 AMCow immune to mad cow disease to be born
next year
Cow immune to mad cow disease to be born
next year
06/02/2004 12:44 AMContent.sina.com - Tue Jun 1, 08:40 am GMT
Baby Born in Friendly Skies (AP)
Baby Born in Friendly Skies (AP)
12/29/2004 12:15 PMAP - The term "airborne" took on a new meaning when a woman gave birth
high above Southeast Alaska on a floatplane that was evacuating her
after her labor began earlier then expected.
Twins born to own gran fly home
Twins born to own gran fly home
07/26/2004 12:18 PMBabies born to their Indian grandmother in an unusual surrogacy case
return to the family home and a legal row.
Baby born with 21-year-old sperm
Baby born with 21-year-old sperm
05/24/2004 06:52 PMA couple have given birth to a baby boy who was conceived using
21-year-old sperm, it emerges.
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