On Saturday's Final Word we had KNSI program director and talk host Dan Ochsner, more often known around St. Cloud as simply The Ox. Dan had reported to me on Thursday last week that he had had his press credentials to the floor of the Minnesota State Senate revoked after holding them for many years...

(You can download higher-quality versions of the above trailer here.) I’ve been a fan of Nina Paley’s comic strips for years, but I didn’t know she’s also an animator. Josh Jasper recently gave me a head’s-up about her full-length, unreleased film, “Sita Sings The...

There is a new kind of poetry happening in NYC called The Poetry Brothel. The basic idea is that the poets are prostitutes and the patrons are johns who pay to have poetry read to them in private. There is also a featured performed, who is promoted in a tone recalling the promotion of burlesque, and...

RTFA: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08%2F12%2F0… “Starting December 4th, Wikipedia administrators noticed a surge of edits from certain IP addresses. These IPs turned out to be the proxies for the content filters of at least 6 major UK ISPs. After some research by Wikipedians, i...

Google's legal team has extraordinary power to decide which videos can be seen by audiences around the world, according to Jeffrey Rosen's piece, Google's Gatekeepers in yesterday's New York Times magazine. Google, of course, owns YouTube, which gives it the technical ability to block particular vid...

Google's legal team has extraordinary power to decide which videos can be seen by audiences around the world, according to Jeffrey Rosen's piece, Google's Gatekeepers in yesterday's New York Times magazine. Google, of course, owns YouTube, which gives it the technical ability to block particular vid...

by The Iconcontributing writer, FreeReinMedia.com That’s right. The FCC can suck my hairy old coin purse. Censor me. I dare you. I f**king hate censorship! Free speech should be just that. I bet you’re thinking ‘is this guy gonna rant? Is this guy going to curse a lot?’ Yep. Ranting and swea...

The Washington Post charts the evolution of gossip to Juicy Campus and wonders what the law can do: "I am suggesting that language evolved to allow us to gossip . . . to facilitate the bonding of social groups . . . it mainly achieves this aim by permitting the exchange of socially relevant informat...

BBC News looks at a new UK law banning "extreme pornography": A bill outlawing the possession of "extreme pornography" is set to become law next week. But many fear it has been rushed through and will criminalise innocent people with a harmless taste for unconventional sex. Five years ago Jane Longh...

“Previously on…” from the New York Times: Ms. Rowling and Warner Brothers Entertainment […] are suing Mr. Vander Ark’s publisher, RDR Books, based in Michigan, to stop publication of the Harry Potter Lexicon. Ms. Rowling contends in the lawsuit that the lexicon copies large...