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14 Nov 2009 11:35

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Politics: The DMCA (and Fox News) strikes again: We’ll miss you News1News.

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  • It was perhaps the best news-related channel on YouTube. You know our weekly Max Headroom feature? The one that features all the clips from all of the talk shows? Well, it may have just suffered a pretty terrible blow. Fox decided to go after News1News, a talk-show-clips channel, and YouTube ended up straight-up removing it, despite the fact that it was, well, an amazing resource and often continued the conversations that began on Fox News. Was it political? Gawker suggests it might be – especially since many liberal bloggers used it. We understand its removal but think it’s shortsighted. Too bad, though. It was one of our faves. On the plus side, it’s back up over here. source
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19 Oct 2009 09:17

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Culture: Kurt Vonnegut’s unpublished short stories see the light of day

  • I was sitting in a bar one night, talking rather loudly about a person I hated — and a man with a beard sat down beside me, and he said amiably, ‘Why don’t you have him killed?’
  • From an excerpt of “Look at the Birdie” • A previously unpublished Kurt Vonnegut short story that’s out this week. The excerpt from “Birdie” features the protagonist in the midst of a colorful bar conversation – you know, the kind of colorful bar conversation we’re often involved in. Vonnegut died in 2007, and “Birdie” is his second posthumous work. • source
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