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So apparently a group of musicians in England called the Featured Artists Coalition have voted to support a “three strikes” law against illegal file downloaders: get caught three times and have your bandwidth reduced to a point where you can no longer download big files. It has not met with enthusiasm from the British blogosphere. [...] Popularity: 13% [?] A couple of years ago, I delivered an incoherent, profanity-laden and probably awful lecture on the Grim Meathook Future at the Chaos Communications Congress in Berlin. (In my defense, I was completely unhinged due to jet lag and the meltdown of my MacBook the night before the talk, when I’d planned to finish my speech [...] Popularity: 37% [?] John Perry Barlow called me a smug dick on Twitter tonight because I pointed out that the collective outraged Twittering about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s rigging of the elections in Iran probably wasn’t going to change a goddamn thing. He’s half-right. I am a dick, but I’m not feeling particularly smug about it. (I also think JPB [...] Popularity: 27% [?] I was watching author Gretchen Peters tonight on yesterday’s Daily Show, promoting her new book Seeds Of Terror, about the links between the poppy trade in Afghanistan and Pakistan and the Taliban and al-Qaeda. It looks like a fascinating book, and I’d like to pick it up and read it before I offer any comment [...] Popularity: 27% [?] This made me sick to my stomach this morning (go to about 2:42 on the timeline): In this clip, Representative Virginia Foxx (R – North Carolina) is arguing against H.R. 1913, a proposed bill that would expand the legal definition of hate crimes to include crimes based upon someone’s gender, sexual orientation, sexual identity or disability. [...] Popularity: 35% [?] Dear President Obama, (I’m still quite tickled to be able to type that, by the way.) Congratulations on your election, and on your inauguration, which drew, by some accounts, one of the largest crowds of humans ever assembled in one place in human history. If you had thrown up a bunch of speakers, whipped out a [...] Popularity: 24% [?]
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros, “Johnny Appleseed”. Appropriate, I think, at this moment. God, I miss Joe Strummer. We could use him right now, more than ever. Popularity: 22% [?] Popularity: 22% [?] There were times when I thought I couldn’t last for long Thank you, America, for giving me hope again. Popularity: 18% [?] Popularity: 18% [?] Popularity: 22% [?] Popularity: 22% [?] [From Marc Ambinder's blog on The Atlantic's website, this is the full text of Obama's victory speech last night.] If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the [...] Popularity: 19% [?] |
My name is Joshua Ellis. I'm a writer, web designer / developer / consultant, musician and DJ who currently resides in Las Vegas, Nevada. I am a former columnist for the Las Vegas CityLife weekly newspaper, the co-founder and creative director for the now-defunct online indie music store Mperia, and former content director for Mojo Republik. I am currently seeking employment as a Web designer/developer. I have extensive experience with aesthetic and UI design as well as being a PHP/MySQL/HTML/Javascript/CSS developer with over fourteen years' experience. All content on Zenarchery is purely my own opinions and ideas and has absolutely fuck-all to do with my employer or anybody else. |
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