January 2012
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To those that still eat at Chick-Fil-A: You do...
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Anti-ACTA movement in Europe gets HUGE boost: EU...
This just in: the European Parliament’s rapporteur of the ACTA agreement, an agreement which is about as bad as SOPA and creates seriously repressive legislation - that rapporteur has just quit in disgust over how the whole process has been designed to keep citizens and lawmakers in the dark. From the website of La Quadrature, which quotes and translates Numerama interviewing Kader...
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Longtime RUSH friend and photographer Andrew...
Longtime RUSH friend and photographer Andrew MacNaughtan died of a heart attack while on assignment with the band in Los Angeles. He was 47. In a statement, the members of the group said, “We’re deeply shocked and heartbroken to learn of the sudden passing of our close friend and longtime photographer, Andrew MacNaughtan. He was a sweet person and a very talented artist. Words...
Woman orders textbook online through Amazon, finds...
OLATHE, Kan. - A woman who ordered a textbook from an online retailer for one of her classes inadvertently purchased a book in drama, mystery and crime.
Sophia Stockton, a junior at Mid-America Nazarene University in Olathe, bought a textbook, “Understanding Terrorism: Challenges, Perspectives and Issues” through Amazon.com for a spring course on terrorism.
On Monday, as Stockton was...
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US Pirate Party Launches Book
A common criticism lobbed at the various Pirate Parties is that they ‘just want stuff for free’ and don’t produce anything; that if it were their work, they wouldn’t be so quick to offer things to download. Today, the US Pirate Party took on that criticism, by releasing their own book.
Available to buy as a paperback, or a free eBook download, the book contains 20 essays and texts from 16...
