links for 2008-02-23

• A clampdown is music to the record industry’s ears
  The award for Fatuous Statement of the Month goes to Geoffrey Taylor, chief executive of BPI, formerly the quaintly named British Phonographic Industry. (Note for readers under under 65: a ‘phonograph’ is an instrument that reproduces sound recorded on a
  (tags: 2008 bigbrother censorship copyfight copyright guardian greed internet music ISP p2p technology uk RIAA)
• Pleas for condemned Saudi ‘witch’
  Ladies and gentlemen, I give you our esteemed allies in the War on Terror, who seem to believe that we all live in the 17th Century.
  (tags: execution executions feminism freedom humanrights gender interest irc Islam justice law news public rant religion saudi sexism torture weird women wtf saudiarabia witchcraft)
• Leaked RIAA Training Video: Find Pirates, Find Crack-Dealing Terrorist Murderers Too!
  Seriously, WTF?
  (tags: piracy RIAA video wtf stupidity p2p drugs)
• US Builds A Retarded “Fence”
  In response to the insane, right wing anti-immigrant crowd, our government announced that we would be building a 700-mile border fence between the U.S. and Mexico. How fucking awesome is that? Especially when you consider that the border is 2,100 miles lo
  (tags: corruption fraud immigration waste wtf stupidity wingnuts my+money+went+south+along+the+border)
• McCain: Threatening to bomb sovereign countries is “naive”
  This from the guy who once sang about bombing Iran to the melody from “Barbara Ann” by the Beach Boys.
  (tags: Obama McCain stupidity wingnuts joking+about+bombing+countries+is+fun)
• Scientists Make First Map Of Emerging-Disease Hotspots
  We are all going to die. Coughing.
  (tags: conservation disease epidemic global map mapping pandemic toread)
• All Kitted Out, by Neil Andrews – Outdoors-Magazine.com
  (tags: survival+kit emergency todo)
• My Emergency “Grab ‘n Go” Bag; aka. 72 hour kit
  An emergency grab and go bag, aka 72 hour kit, and the details of each item within. To be used in case of an emergency or disaster, which you will need to flee.
  (tags: advice disaster earthquake emergency gobag health paranoia safety Travel)

~ by SAP on 23 February 2008.