My Holiday Wish List

Not that anyone on my friends list would actually buy me a gift, but I can always dream. :>

(from amazon.com)

Hello,
Remember Wish Lists? As kids, we sweated bullets over filling our lists with stuff we might actually have some hope of receiving, and stuff our friends and family would never buy us. Well, I was visiting the Amazon.com site, and started my own Wish List. Check it out and then create one for yourself if you haven't already! The Holiday season is just around the corner!

Best Wishes,
Christina Taft

https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/2CCJL6IZV5O3Q/ref=cm_reg_rd-upd/104-3484187-9348702?ie=UTF8&msgid=updated

Keith Olbermann Countdown - Bush making Torture Legal

Bush is trying to bypass the Geneva Convention. He must be stopped. IMPEACH BUSH!

Bush is insane, in my humble opinion

He explicitly states that is would be ok for foreign nations to torture our people and put them on trial with secret evidence that we couldn't see.

Soros Compares President Bush To Nazis

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CNN and Wulf Blitzer.

More YouTube Punditry

Gary Hart on the Daily show. Yes, he was already laminated in 1987.

memage

You Are Bold And Brave

But daring? Not usually? You tend to like to make calculated risks. So while you may not be base jumping any time soon... You are up for whatever's new and (a little) exciting!

How Daring Are You?

Your Life Is Worth...

$435,000

How Much Is Your Life Worth?

The Internet having control over your creative content?

Don't Let Congress Ignore the Broadcast Treaty

WIPO's "Treaty on the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations" is protection, all right: a protection racket for middlemen in the TV and Internet worlds.

If adopted, the WIPO treaty will give broadcasters copyright-like control over the content of their broadcasts, even when they have no copyright in what they show. A TV channel broadcasting your Creative Commons-licensed movie could legally demand that no one record or redistribute it - and sue anyone who does. And TV companies could use their new rights to go after TiVo or MythTV for daring to let you skip advertisements or record programs in DRM-free formats.

If that wasn't bad enough, the US contingent at WIPO is pushing to have the treaty expanded to cover the Net. That means that anyone who feeds your "sound and images" through a web server would have a right to meddle with what you do with the webcast simply because they serve as the middleman between you and the creator.

John Naughton of the London Observer called the treaty "a control freak's charter." Mark Cuban, Tim O'Reilly, and 18 other Net experts called its webcasting provisions "unnecessary," and "likely to constrain, not increase, the creation of more information products for the public."

And yet, the US WIPO representatives are still pushing for it to go forward.

We don't think they are working in the best interests of the American public, nor do they have any sort of mandate to create new "rights" for middlemen to be used to restrict what ordinary Americans can do with their media. We think that the Library of Congress and the US Patent and Trademark Office should invite formal public comment on what they're doing to our networks, and Congress should hold public hearings so that the audience can have its voice heard.

Write to Congress using the form letter below and remind them that it's government's job to protect all of us, not just the broadcasting industry.

Read more and send your letter here


How this effects LiveJournal users

nabbed from noise626

floored. absolutely floored.

THIS...IS...FABULOUS!

Closer (Fan Video)

Spock wants to fuck Kirk like an animal. o_O

I love this man

Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
-Bill Watterson

Checklist for today.

Got up at 8 am and took a shower. Got a call from mom telling me we can't get together today. The only reason I even got up at 8 am was cause I was supposed to be at mom's 35 miles away at 9. Spent the next 4 hours on the internet. Spent the next 2 hours watching Howl's Moving Castle in Japanese with subtitles and watching the special features. Spent the next 5 hours sleeping. Now, back on the internet.

So far, it's been a good day. :)

The car of our immediate future