Via Backingwinds
FARK.com just underwent a major site redesign, and lost among the clutter is their new legal policy. One would intuitively think that simply posting a photograph to the forums over at FARK.com would not mean that one is surrendering their copyright to FARK.com for all time, but it would appear that that is no [...]

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Mark Frauenfelder:
Naomi Wolf wrote an essay about the ten steps a corrupt government takes to create a fascist state, and provides examples of what the Bush administration is doing to fulfill the requirements of each step. Some of Wolf’s examples are quite a stretch, but others are spot on.
1 Invoke a terrifying internal and external [...]

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Look out!, originally uploaded by Rnout.

Again, WTF?

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Mantis, originally uploaded by Lawraa.

ITS GOOD!

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Xeni Jardin:

For today’s edition of the NPR News program “Day to Day,” I filed a report on internet reactions around the release of a so-called “multimedia manifesto” by the Virginia Tech murderer, Seung-hui Cho. After shooting two people, and before killing 32 more, he mailed a package to NBC News which included photos of [...]

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Xeni Jardin:

Mark Ebner, a longtime (10 years and counting) journalistic nemesis of the Church of Scientology, reports that proselytizers from that organization are on the way to Blacksburg, Virginia (as is reported to have occurred immediately after 9/11, and Katrina): Link. The conversion campaign is titled, “The Way to Happiness.”
Previously on BB:
VA Tech: Jamie Bishop, [...]

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Xeni Jardin:

BP says,
One of the victims in the VT shooting was Christopher James Bishop (Jamie Bishop), a German Instructor. He was teaching German language but was also a skilled Academic Tech Liaison who knew his way around applications.

He kept a site of his work and projects here (Link) along with a portfolio. Some of [...]

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Xeni Jardin:
MSNBC is reporting that Cho Seung-Hui, the alleged gunman in Monday’s Virginia Tech killings, mailed a package of correspondence to NBC News during the two hours between the first and second shootings. NBC has shared the contents (said to include QuickTime videos, digital photos, other images, and text) with FBI investigators:
“We received a package [...]

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Xeni Jardin:
BoingBoing reader Bill Koslosky, MD says,

What about protecting campuses using cell phone technology? Here’s an article from The Roanoke Times online from last September that reports Virginia Tech was considering an SMS alert system for their campus considering that there was a prison escapee who was shot and killed just off campus [...]

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Xeni Jardin:
BB reader Jess Hemerly says,
In case you haven’t seen it, the Wikipedia entry for the Virginia Tech Shootings is one of the most thorough and quite honestly amazing Wikipedia entries I’ve ever seen. The number of edits and the short time between edits in the History… kinda incredible.

W. Vann Hall says,

This quote from an [...]

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