In what the federal authorities on Thursday called one of the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought, the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation seized the Web site Megaupload and charged seven people connected with it with running an international enterprise based on Internet piracy.

 

But.

Not so fast G-men…

Coming just a day after civil protests in the United States over proposed antipiracy bills, the arrests were greeted almost immediately with digital Molotov cocktails. The hacker collective that calls itself Anonymous attacked the Web sites of the Justice Department and several major entertainment companies and trade groups in retaliation for Mega-upload’s seizure. The Justice Department’s site and several others remained inaccessible for much of Thursday afternoon.

 

7 Charged as F.B.I. Closes a Top File-Sharing Site (Ben Sisario, New York Times)

Thanks Lara

 

 

When he came down from the mountain his lifelong depression had finally lifted. “When I speak of depression,” he says carefully, “I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse. I’m happy to report that, by imperceptible degrees and by the grace of good teachers and good luck, that depression slowly dissolved and has never returned with the same ferocity that prevailed for most of my life.” He thinks it might just be down to old age. “I read somewhere that as you grow older certain brain cells die that are associated with anxiety so it doesn’t really matter how much you apply yourself to the disciplines. You’re going to start feeling a lot better or a lot worse depending on the condition of your neurons.”

 

Leonard Cohen: ‘All I’ve Got To Put In A Song Is My Own Experience’ (Dorian Lynskey, Guardian)

An familiar story stylishly told. Includes interviews with housewives, the unemployed, taxi drivers, people from Occupy Dame Street, Fintan O’Toole, Margaret E Ward, Mick Wallace, Simon ‘Breakfast With Anglo’ Kelly and epicurean Ross Golden Bannon.

Watch here

(Go to 16.10. What are those earrings Mick Wallace is wearing?)

Thanks Richard Fahy

 

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_426RiwST8

The Black Keys – Lonely Boy

Requested by Joanna McArdle:

I think this is not only a great song but a great video. Check out the moves. Everyone knows someone who dances like this

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzuAjC-wJ3U&feature=player_embedded

‘Footage’ of Costa Concordia from a video report by El Mundo, Spain’s second largest newspaper (go to .46). The English translation: “Meanwhile water begins to flood the lower decks”

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEiBXG4g9Q4&feature=player_embedded

Footage from Dundrum Shopping Centre, Dublin, during the floods last October.

El fakio.

Mucho LOLio.

That is NOT a stricken cruise ship – That’s Dundrum Shopping Centre During The Flood  (Miss Panti’s Blog)

Thanks Buzz
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