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Jon Stewart On Facebook-Instagram: 'A Billion Dollars Of Money? For A Thing That Kind Of Ruins Your Pictures?'
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Jon Stewart On Facebook-Instagram: 'A Billion Dollars Of Money? For A Thing That Kind Of Ruins Your Pictures?'
Google, April 1, And The Trouble With Tricks You Know Are Coming
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April 1 is Google’s high holiday. Since its earliest days, Google has pulled pranks on its users. Once, as I relay in my book, Sergey Brin even tricked employees into thinking that shares of the company would soon be revalued, causing some to borrow money to buy their options...
Jon Stewart Solves the Homeless Hotspot Debate
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Turning homeless people into human hotspots at SXSW was a terrible idea. But one of the bizarre features of our media culture is that some people feel compelled to argue otherwise. Luckily, our media culture also features Jon Stewart. The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political...
Pro-Copyright Judges Never Drop Cases Over Conflicts, So Why Does Megaupload Judge Have To Step Down?
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This isn't a huge surprise, but yesterday, we wrote about some comments by Judge David Harvey in New Zealand concerning region coding on DVDs and the New Zealand/US negotiations over the TPP agreement. None of this had anything to do with Megaupload or the Dotcom case, but at one point...
Pro-Copyright Judges Never Drop Cases Over Conflicts, So Why Does Megaupload Judge Have To Step Down?
ACTA Failure Inspires The Most Clueless Column Ever
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Last week was a good week for those who believe in the internet and culture, with the rejection of ACTA being a key moment in Europe, on par with the rejection of SOPA in the US six months earlier. Of course, as we saw with the defeat of SOPA, a...
Viral Video: Samantha Bee Settles a Hummus Crisis
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Here is one of the more fantastic appearances by the talented Samantha Bee of “The Daily Show,” on the controversy about Brooklyn’s Park Slope Food Coop’s proposal to ban Israeli products because of its persecution of Palestinians. Yes, a hummus war. Oh, just watch: The Daily Show with Jon...
That Was Quick: Viacom Ends Web Ban For Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert
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Jon Stewart came back from a two-week vacation last night and was in excellent form: There was a great recap on Mitt Romney’s Bain problem, a very funny interview with Louis CK, and a scathing bit where he decried the stupidity of Viacom’s decision to pull its programming — including...
'Flatland' redux: watch Carl Sagan explain the science of 'Fez'
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The plot of Fez begins when a two-dimensional character living in a two-dimensional world suddenly realizes that just beyond his perception lies a third dimension, filled with unexplored wonders and mystery. While it may have lacked the elegant mechanics, devious puzzles and brilliant audiovisual style of the video game,...
Watch List: ‘Rev.’ and ‘The Yard,’ Two Short Series on Hulu
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“Rev.,” about an Anglican church in London, and “The Yard,” about Toronto schoolchildren, provide satire whose bite is cushioned by gentleness....
Former allies turn on Carreon, sue to halt his threats
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Previous court rulings have found that satire of trademark holders, such as Charles Carreon, are legal. An attorney representing Satirical Charles, the man behind the a satirical website mocking pugnacious Arizona attorney Charles Carreon, has filed a lawsuit in federal court in San Francisco, seeking a preemptive declaratory judgment in the case...
Should Louise Mensch be setting up a Twitter rival on the side? | Belinda Webb
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The Corby MP is behind a 'focused' discussion site that's already up and running in the US. Just don't Menshn the day jobLouise Mensch, the Conservative MP for Corby and East Northamptonshire, has been very busy lately. She's set up a new social networking and discussion site, Menshn.com, which she...
Mad Magazine: Alfred E. Newman Lands on the iPad
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Mad Magazine is to print what Weird Al Yanokovich is to music. Exactly 60 years after pumping out its first parody, Mad Magazine is taking its spoofs to the iPad, with an app that offers the latest satire-laden editions, as well as back issues. More »...
Twitter Employees Basically Spend All Day Making Fun Of Each Other On Twitter
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"Some of the best Twitter accounts are the parody accounts," Twitter CEO Dick Costolo tweeted last August. "Seek them out." Or just create them! When it comes to this mandate, Twitter employees are nothing if not obedient. (While we can't vouch for the provenance of every single one of these...
Microsoft Isn't Laughing At Twitter Parody Of Windows Exec
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Microsoft demanded the takedown of a phony Twitter account purpoting to be that of Windows Division President Steven Sinofsky. Over the weekend, Microsoft used its @BuildWindows8 account to send a message to the account owner, saying "@StevenSinofsky please see guidelines on parody and impersonation. Your account is not following them...
Viral Video: What Do You Get When You Mash Up Google Glass, FaceTagram and Gosling?
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Once again, Jon Stewart nails it perfectly on this “Daily Show” segment and all at once, with biting commentary on Google’s new augmented reality glasses, the $1 billion Facebook just forked over for Instagram and, yes, Mr. Handsome Devil, Ryan Gosling. I wonder when they’ll be releasing that filter?...
More Righthaven IP Up For Auction, Including The Name Righthaven
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When one of the many judges smacking down Righthaven ordered that the company's intellectual property be auctioned off, we wondered just what that would actually include, since it's not clear whether Righthaven really owns any copyrights, or any intellectual property beyond its own trademarks. The righthaven.com domain name was the...
Lost in 'Space Quest': Where did two Guys from Andromeda go during their 25 year hiatus?
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The last time Scott Murphy and Mark Crowe worked together was on a game that was bound for a deep burial in the history books. Space Quest VII was never made, although a trailer and the odd piece of concept work can still be found floating around online as...
If Facebook's IPO kicks off a new tech bubble, where will you put your money?
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Since you can't get Facebook stock at the IPO insider price, I have a deal for anyone who feels left out: shares in eTattlerOn New Year's Day 1999, as the first internet bubble was inflating at an accelerating rate, I published in my newspaper column a supposedly leaked memo from...
From Satire To Singles: Former President Of The Onion Is Running A New Dating Site
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Take men. Add women. Put a computer between them. What's the perfect background to bring these three together? Eight years as president of one of the greatest satire sites of all time, The Onion. That's Sean Mills' story. He is currently the CEO of The Nerve and its new...
The Satiric iPad App Punch Wants You To Laugh, Play, Pay
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Despite a cheeky promotional claim that profitability is "not something we think about," Punch has a grand vision of becoming a lucrative tablet publishing platform. But first, a quiz: hedge fund or organic farm?David Bennahum is the CEO of Punch, a news and entertainment app that launched last week for...
Jon Stewart: Google+ a good way to keep your secrets
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Jon Stewart had quite a bit of fun at the expense of Google and Google+ last night, lampooning the FCC’s recent $25,000 fine against the company and joking that posting something on the search giant’s social network is a good way to keep it private. “If you don’t want to...
Charles Carreon Keeps Digging: Promises To Subpoena Twitter & Ars Technica To Track Down Parody Account
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It would appear that lawyer Charles Carreon is not taking the advice of Matthew Inman to take some time off and calm down. He's still going at it. His latest move is a claimed plan to subpoena both Twitter and Ars Technica to find out who created a fake Charles...
Charles Carreon Keeps Digging: Promises To Subpoena Twitter & Ars Technica To Track Down Parody Account
C&D Squashes Seuss-Style Satire: Where Did The Idea/Expression Dichotomy Go?
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One aspect of fair use that often confuses people is the distinction between parody (which is well-established as fair use in many circumstances) and satire (which is not). The basic distinction is that a parody that makes use of a copyrighted work is doing so to comment on that work,...
Tumblr-Wave: A 'Genre' of Music That Must Be Killed Before It Begins
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The reason people invent sub-genres of music is because, quite frankly, they’re too stupid to describe the sound of something in anything other than terms they just invented. Often redundant, insufferable terms that somehow end up proliferating among a small group of people into a mode of branding by a...
Jon Stewart Finds the Humor in the FCC Fining Google (Video)
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This week, the FCC fined Google $25,000 for impeding its investigation of the company’s Wi-Fi data collection. As Jon Stewart put it last night on ‘The Daily Show”: “The fine is less than you would get for a particularly flashy NFL touchdown dance.” Stewart even got in a Lycos joke,...
Hack the Future of reddit!
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Hack the Future of reddit! The Wired/reddit Online Hackathon asks you to imagine how online communities like reddit will look and behave in the year 2022. How will attention be aggregated, shared, ranked, read? As reddit continues to grow, how will its UI expand? Envision the best reddit of 2022...
Man Starts Kickstarter To Buy Kickstarter, Fails to Understand Finance
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via Kickstarter Comedian and rabble-rouser Eric Moneypenny decided to follow the grand tradition of McSweeney's satirical Kickstarter for Greece, by starting his own Kickstarter . . . to buy Kickstarter. Get it? The project, called "I Would Like to Buy Kickstarter," aims to raise $19 million based on its value...
Telecom marketing: indecipherable jargon
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Are terms like "4G" and LTE nothing more than meaningless marketing terms? And furthermore, do they work? FORTUNE -- You might think that a discussion among a bunch of telecom geeks would be the last place you should look for help in deciphering the technical gobbledygook that wireless providers tend...
Carreon claims victory, drops his lawsuit against The Oatmeal et al.
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Previous court rulings have found that satire of trademark holders, such as Charles Carreon, is legal. Carreon dropped his lawsuit against the Oatmeal and its conspirators, but not without proclaiming his own victory. Late Tuesday afternoon, Charles Carreon dropped his absurd federal lawsuit against The Oatmeal cartoonist Matt Inman,...
Amazon spoof reviews bring art of satire to website
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Amazon's recommendations sabotaged by ecstatic reviews for some odd productsIt was started by a handful of isolated enthusiasts, gradually became a cult craze, and is now threatening to become a commercial enterprise.Spoof reviews posted on Amazon have sent demand for the most unlikely merchandise soaring and are playing havoc with...
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