Pop princess Kylie Minogue will be awarded her OBE from the Queen during a glitzy ceremony at Buckingham Palace next week. Minogue, 40, found out in December that she was to receive the prestigious honour for her services to the music industry.
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Pop princess Kylie Minogue will be awarded her OBE from the Queen during a glitzy ceremony at Buckingham Palace next week.
Keith Olbermann: Then and now - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.comOn January 31 of this year, Keith Olbermann donned his most serious face and most indignant voice tone to rail against George Bush for supporting telecom immunity and revisions to FISA. In a 10-minute “Special Comment,” the MSNBC star condemned Bush for wanting to “retroactively immunize corporate criminals,” and said that telecom immnity is “an ex post facto law, which would clear the phone giants from responsibility for their system
Now that my summer session course is coming to an end, I feel like I can finally take a moment to reflect on a few things. I’m coming up on six years of blogging now, which is pretty astonishing. Abu Aardvark is older than my daughter… though not nearly as cute, and almost certainly not as smart. I’m constantly surprised at how many people I meet “know” me through the blog. It’s always funny, if a bit odd, to meet graduate students or senior government officials who know that I was just
While Larry Lessig warns that an orphans act might not reduce infringement risks enough, some people feel the opposite. Check out Autumn Wiggin’s thoughts at Crafting a Green World, a Web site for indie artists and crafters. My thoughts: As a nonlawyer, I think the act needs to be drafted with sensitivity to all concerned. I wonder if text works might be easier to protect, and spot infringements against, than designs. True? Your thoughts? And should this influence the language of an orphans
Yes, that’s an assault rifle. What’s going on here? Where was this picture taken? How would you react if you came across this fellow a local convenience store? (As always, image is explained at end of post.) In America guns are in the news today. In an historic ruling yesterday the Supreme Court revisited the Constitution’s Second Amendment: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
Early on in my blogging ‘career’, I blogged — among other things — content theft after I discovered that some other bloggers had copied verbatem a popular blog entry of mine. Sadly, feel obliged to report that I’ve discovered that it’s happened again — this time with some photographs I took while out and about in Hong Kong. Now, I have to admit that in my early days of blogging, I too was a bit uncertain about what constituted public domain, etc., with regards to photos. But never at an