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“If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.” – JK Galbraith

BBC Wildlife Finder

BBC Wildlife Finder

BBC puts wildlife footage online

Clips from 30 series made available on BBC website with introduction by David Attenborough

Chimpanzees ambushing and eating colobus monkeys, great white sharks leaping clean out of the ocean to catch their prey and the first footage of an entire snow leopard hunt are just some of the wonders of nature made available by the BBC as it opens up its vast archive of wildlife footage online today.

But not if you’re outside of the UK. Auntie, why do you do this?

Fuck the BBC’s geolocation prohibition. Now where did I leave that proxy server with the UK exit point?

Full article in The Guardian.

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“Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.” – John Lennon

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“How did we get here [with complex and restrictive copyright laws]? Well, it starts with an organization called WIPO, which is for copyright what Mordor is for evil in Middle Earth.” – Cory Doctorow

Dear Lily…

“It’d blatantly be a major fail
if they patented the major scale”

Utter genius. How to prick a hypocrite’s bubble in a couple of minutes; Dan Bull tears Lily Allen a new one.

Dan Bull at MySpace.

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“I was in the pub last night, and a guy asked me for a light for his cigarette. I suddenly realised that there was a demand here and money to be made, and so I agreed to light his cigarette for 10 pence, but I didn’t actually give him a light, I sold him a license to burn his cigarette. My fire-license restricted him from giving the light to anybody else, after all, that fire was my property. He was drunk, and dismissing me as a loony, but accepted my fire (and by implication the licence which governed its use) anyway. Of course in a matter of minutes I noticed a friend of his asking him for a light and to my outrage he gave his cigarette to his friend and pirated my fire! I was furious, I started to make my way over to that side of the bar but to my added horror his friend then started to light other people’s cigarettes left, right, and centre! Before long that whole side of the bar was enjoying MY fire without paying me anything. Enraged I went from person to person grabbing their cigarettes from their hands, throwing them to the ground, and stamping on them.

Strangely the door staff exhibited no respect for my property rights as they threw me out the door.” – Ian Clarke

GNU philosophy

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“The War on Drugs has continued for some 20 years, and we see little prospect of peace, despite the fact that it has totally failed and given the US an imprisonment rate almost equal to Russia. I fear that the War on Copying could go on for decades as well. To end it, we will need to rethink the copyright system, based on the Constitution’s view that it is meant to benefit the public, not the copyright owners. Today, one of the benefits the public wants is the use of computers to share copies.” – Richard Stallman

www.stallman.org

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“If the human body’s obscene, complain to the manufacturer, not to me.” – Larry Flynt

Sent to the naughty corner

Sent to the naughty corner by the moderators at CiF

“Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits, than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood. Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper.” – Thomas Jefferson

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“Let blockheads read what blockheads write.” – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

The Mod Squad

All I said was…

Bono, Kissinger, Brown and Ehud Barak all in the same room at the same time in New York. Where’s a hijacked airliner when you need one?

Comment is free but a sense of humour is obviously an extra the Grauniad can’t afford.

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“Fiat justitia, ruat caelum.” – Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus

Dedicated to Geoffrey Robertson.

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“My repressive Catholic heritage was a very small and eccentric item in the inventory of the world’s religions. I would sweat and drink gin pahits and taste the varied sexual resources of the East.” – Anthony Burgess

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“Censorship? Fuck that.” – Thomas Bacot

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“This is a goodbye kiss from the Iraqi people, dog. This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq.” – Muntazer al-Zaidi, shoe thrower, to GW Bush