February 21, 2010
Posted by Paul Falzone
Introducing the iTelescreen!
As two recent stories point out, our actual telescreens cost hundreds of dollars and have designer labels.
These are the posts from February 2010
February 10, 2010
Posted by Bill Herman
White House Claiming Quasi-Copyright Over Official Pics
It’s 100% legal for me to post this picture:
It’s an official US government document, so copyright does not apply–at least not in the US. (See 17 USC § 105.) It’s galling, then, that the official White House Flickr account has been adding language incorrectly claiming copyright-like restrictions on pictures.
The language reads:
This official White House photograph [...]
February 7, 2010
Posted by David Karpf
The brilliance of “demonsheep”
You’ve probably seen or heard something about Carly Fiorina’s “demonsheep” commercial. Here it is, in case you haven’t:
The payoff from this 3:21 second campaign “commercial” comes at the end, when a person in a homemade sheep outfit with laser-demon-eyes appears behind a tree, supposedly indicating a wolf in sheep’s clothing. It’s hilariously amateurish, and has [...]