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Collateral Murder

WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad — including two Reuters news staff. Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter gun-site, clearly shows the unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers. Two young children involved in the rescue were also seriously wounded. For further information please visit the special project website www.collateralmurder.com.

Thanks to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, they have created a list of “Blogger’s Rights” to help everyone in the internet community.

This excerpt is copied from the EFF & all of this is credit to them.

“Bloggers’ Rights

If you’re a blogger, this page is for you.

One of EFF’s goals is to give you a basic roadmap to the legal issues you may confront as a blogger, to let you know you have rights, and to encourage you to blog freely with the knowledge that your legitimate speech is protected.

To that end, we have created the Legal Guide for Bloggers, a collection of blogger-specific FAQs addressing everything from fair use to defamation law to workplace whistle-blowing.

In addition, EFF continues to battle for bloggers’ rights in the courtroom:

Bloggers can be journalists (and journalists can be bloggers). We’re battling for legal and institutional recognition that if you engage in journalism, you’re a journalist, with all of the attendant rights, privileges, and protections. (See Apple v. Does.)

Bloggers are entitled to free speech. We’re working to shield you from frivolous or abusive threats and lawsuits. Internet bullies shouldn’t use copyright, libel, or other claims to chill your legitimate speech. (See OPG v. Diebold.)

Bloggers have the right to political speech. We’re working with a number of other public-interest organizations to ensure that the Federal Election Commission (FEC) doesn’t gag bloggers’ election-related speech. We argue that the FEC should adopt a presumption against the regulation of election-related speech by individuals on the Internet, and interpret the existing media exemption to apply to online media outlets that provide news reporting and commentary regarding an election — including blogs. (See our joint comments to the FEC [PDF, 332K].)

Bloggers have the right to stay anonymous. We’re continuing our battle to protect and preserve your constitutional right to anonymous speech online, including providing a guide to help you with strategies for keeping your identity private when you blog. (See How to Blog Safely (About Work or Anything Else).)

Bloggers have freedom from liability for hosting speech the same way other web hosts do. We’re working to strengthen Section 230 liability protections under the Communications Decency Act (CDA) while spreading the word that bloggers are entitled to them. (See Barrett v. Rosenthal.)

If you’d like to spread the word about our work, consider adding an EFF Bloggers’ Rights Badge to your blog or website.”

If you ask yourself, “Why didn’t the secret service stop the attack?”, keep in mind, these men are trained for gunfire, missile attacks, but NOT shoes xD

If you guys notice (0:15), the security officer is wielding a knife, and stabs Muntadhar various times.

I’m still astounded that Bush had those reflexes to dodge those shoes, TWICE! xD

A compilation of the top ten kills in Counter-Strike of the Year 2009.

When things couldn’t get worse, it seems that T-Mobile has found another way to squeeze out more money from it’s customers. Since the United States ranks almost at the top for expensive cell phone bills, I can only imagine what they will come up with next. The extra charge adds $1.50 to your already outrageous expensive bill.

Due to all the hype of Google Wave, if you don’t understand what it is, you should check out this video!

This a video of slalom skating in the city of Chicago. To be more specific, at North Ave Beach, next to castaways. If you are interested in learning slalom or skating with the group, just go check out: www.windycityskaters.com

Songs by Fatboy Slim

Instead of sticking with the scenery wallpapers that the G1 brought, you could always search online for some samples.

If you are a big fan of the viral video of the “Keyboard Cat”, Threadless has a submission of a shirt with three keyboard cats. Once this becomes available, you coolest kid on the block!!

To get the shirt:

http://media.threadless.com/submission/222011/Three_Keyboard_Cat_Moon

If you haven’t seen the video yet, CLICK HERE (EPIC FAIL):