SOPA Protests Around the Web
Posted by esmoger in Uncategorized on January 18, 2012
Today, major websites around the internet are raising awareness of SOPA and PIPA, two prospective bills that threaten the internet with broadly defined and poorly thought out reactions to copyright infringement. It’s generally agreed that piracy is an issue that needs to be dealt with, but government oversight that threatens to break the internet is not the answer. For more information or to help in the protest, check out Google’s information page on the topic.
Here are a few sites that are protesting SOPA and PIPA today:
Final (brief) thoughts on Skyward Sword
Minor spoilers ahead! (Location and enemy names)
After a month and a half and about 55 hours sunk into the game, I finished Skyward Sword on the Wii tonight.
Early on in the game, I had the impression that it stood a fair chance at being the best Zelda game ever made. That didn’t quite pan out, but that’s not to say the game wasn’t excellent.
In fact, aside from a few nagging parts along the way, seemingly there for no reason other than to rack up more game time, the game was nearly flawless.
Speak of The Devil!
..adding to yesterday’s thoughts on the proud igorance of conservative Americans, I present to you Case 0.
Sorry Rick, the Constitution protects the American people from the theocracy you guys want so badly (try reading it sometime). If you want to be governed by religion, try living in Iran for a while.. let us know how that works out for you.
This isn’t respect.
It’s Christmas time again, and that means that Fox News and other conservative groups are sounding the horns to kick off the anual “War on Christmas”, a tradition linked to white supremecists dating back several decades.
Lately, they’ve had a new weapon in their one-sided war, Facebook friends. Here’s the post spreading around that you’ve probably seen by now:
Just so everyone knows, I will have a CHRISTMAS TREE in my living room (not a holiday tree), my child is getting CHRISTMAS PRESENTS (not holiday gifts) and we will eat CHRISTMAS DINNER (not a holiday meal), and I will attend a CHRISTMAS PARTY (not a holiday party). I will also very cheerfully wish you a MERRY CHRISTMAS! (not… happy holidays). By the way, if you want to have a Happy Hanukah , by all means do, I respect that. If you want to have a Blessed Kwanzaa, I also respect that. I want to have a Merry Christmas, so I ask YOU to respect that! Repost if you agree!!
Can we stop this nonsense? You say that you respect that not everyone celebrates Christmas, and in the same breathe you exclaim that you will only wish them greetings for something (that you know) they don’t celebrate. Even if you *don’t* know what holiday someone celebrates, it’s incredibly rude to just assume it’s Christmas.
If someone wishes you “Happy Holidays”, they aren’t doing it to insult you or “take the Christ out of Christmas”. They’re being considerate because THEY DON’T KNOW what holiday you celebrate.
This Facebook post is the reason I’m so sad about what this country has become. When did so many of us adopt ignorance as something to be proud of?
When you post or “like” stuff like that on Facebook, it only makes intelligent people think less of you. The only people you’re going to impress are those who are equally as ignorant,.. but I guess that’s the point.
p.s. why don’t we stop spamming our friends with chain letters on Facebook altogether?
Little things are why Skyward Sword is great.
The Legend of Zelda – Skyward Sword is a lot of things. After receiving it as a gift today and playing for quite a while, I can easily say one thing.. it is not out of touch with modern gaming. This is saying a lot when it comes to Zelda games, and the little things it changes to bring it to modern times will cement the titles place as a classic. Read the rest of this entry »
Shadow of The Colossus (PS2/PS3) Thoughts.. brilliance of a different age
Shadow of the Colossus was originally released back in 2005 to critical acclaim and hefty sales. I received the game as a gift sometime back then.. in 2006 or 2007.. but it sat wrapped on my shelf awaiting it’s place in my backlog. Sadly I never got around to it until the recent HD re-release on the PS3. Last night I finished playing it, and, I was a little disappointed in the overall experience.
But is it the game’s fault? I’m not sure. Playing a 6 year old game is like watching a 50 year old film.. things were just done differently back then. Read the rest of this entry »
Bluestacks brings Android apps to Windows. a few thoughts..
Yesterday the internet was abuzz with the launch of the alpha release of Bluestacks, a software package that promises Android apps on Windows.. crazy right? Well.. I couldn’t resist checking it out and I wanted to lay out some thoughts since this is a product I could see using rather frequently.
A Reddit Picture Script Thing
Image via Wikipedia
So lately I’ve been browsing Reddit a lot, and since I tend to gravitate to the image posts, I wrote a little script that remixes their RSS feeds to include only those(it also puts the image directly into the feed).. specifically it looks for those hosted on imgur, which seems to be (by far) Reddit’s hosting service of choice.
If you tend to fly through looking at pictures and not commenting a whole lot, you might find the feeds useful, so feel free to give it a shot..
Digitally Dead
..and just like that it’s like I don’t exist. Kind of.
I just deleted my Facebook account. Will I stay off there? I have a good amount of friends and family that I only get to stay caught up with through status updates and occasional messages. But for now I will be roughing it. Maybe this will force me back to the pre-AIM, pre-social network days. Maybe I’ll have to start chiseling out time to sit and call ten or fifteen people every week to feel connected. Maybe I just won’t care to. I don’t know.
Or maybe G+ will bring me back to life.
