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This video is illegal.

YouTube received a take-down notice from NBC regarding the SNL Lazy Sunday video. That was sure a long time coming. Here's what YouTube says on their blog:

NBC recently contacted YouTube and asked us to remove Saturday Night Live's "Lazy Sunday: Chronicles of Narnia" video. We know how popular that video is but YouTube respects the rights of copyright holders. You can still watch SNL's "Lazy Sunday" video for free on NBC's website.

This response from YouTube must be firmly tongue-in-cheek. They "respect the rights of copyright holders"?! Give me a break. There's tons of infringing content all over YouTube. There's no way they could possibly plead ignorance here (they even hired the brother of one of the SNL sketch writers to be their "director of community" soon after they struck gold with this clip)... its clear that the video was infringing from the moment it was posted onto the site. Its an entire clip from SNL, not an excerpt, and certainly not fair use. Its got an NBC watermark on it.

At what point was YouTube given permission to re-broadcast this video to millions of viewers through their website? Its not like this was file sharing amongst a few friends, this was re-broadcasted on a video portal site to millions of viewers. This is like CBS recording Saturday Night Live and then airing it the next day... and everyday after that for weeks. YouTube quite obviously benefits from video plaigarism of this sort all the time... but then again they're not alone.

This clip was all over the internet. It was also on CollegeHumor.com, and yanked from there by Google Video (obvious from the CollegeHumor watermark, so its a copy of a copy on Google). It was probably on several other video hosting sites and portals (there's a lot of them out there now), as well as on several personal websites.

NBC later released the clip as a free download on iTunes (its now $1.99), and they offer it for free viewing on their website (only for PC users with Internet Explorer).

Of course, some people think that YouTube should be congratulated for their copyright infringing practices. Here's what Xeni Jardin says about it on BoingBoing:

This isn't like another television network broadcasting the skit without permission. YouTube is a service through which individual fans can share stuff they're nuts about with others. NBC issuing a C&D to YouTube makes about as much sense as NBC sending attorneys to the homes of every blogger or Livejournaler user who posted a link to a torrent somewhere

Sorry, Xeni, that's completely wrong. In the same blog entry where YouTube responds to the take-down notice they also say:

YouTube is now serving up more than 15 million videos streamed per day- that's nearly 465M videos streamed per month

So how exactly are they different from a TV network? How are they exempt from the laws and standard practices of the industry?

Originally from unmediated, on February 19, 2006 08:59 PM

A nice simple idea: get text from project gutenberg and turn it into a poster design.

Originally posted by blackbeltjones from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on February 19, 2006 08:58 PM

John Canzano is talking about William Wesley again, this time in conjuction with Oregon phenom Malik Hairston:

I asked the GM if the fact that Hairston is close with William "Worldwide Wes" Wesley would help get him drafted. The GM said he didn't think that would be a factor. I asked because it's clear Wes pulls a lot of strings in basketball. Including the one that got Kenny Payne hired as an Oregon assistant two years ago when the Ducks badly wanted Hairston.

This William Wesley crusade is beginning to feel a little bit like a witch hunt. We get it - he's a player. --dj

Originally from True Hoop, on February 19, 2006 08:58 PM

Originally posted by alainabrowne from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on February 19, 2006 05:40 PM

Originally posted by alainabrowne from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on February 19, 2006 05:40 PM

a live news feed aggregator featuring auto-tagged & filtered news stories from NPR (National Public Radio), augmented with different forms of data visualization. the homepage features an animated map-based feed with circles denoting the popularity of the different news story tags. in addition, the individual tag pages contain interactive timeline graphs. see also what's up news map. [reverbiage.com]

Originally posted by infosthetics from information aesthetics, on February 19, 2006 05:40 PM

david posted a photo:

I like the three things we noted independently on this photo.

Originally from david's Photos, on February 19, 2006 04:50 PM

brian_d_foy writes "The San Francisco Perl Mongers will hold a demonstration of several Perl IDE's on Tuesday, February 28, 2006: Matisse Enzer's Two Alpha blog has the details. The demo will include Emacs with perlnow.el; EPIC/Eclipse; and ActiveState's Komodo."

Originally posted by brian_d_foy from use Perl, on February 19, 2006 04:50 PM

AJAX groupware Joyent is now available as a hosted service or an appliance. I'm in favor of having everything in-house where I can lay my hands on it, but when the stuff in question costs big bucks a service would be a great way to try it out. Meanwhile AJAX groupware Zimbra has hit version 3.0 even though the company only de-stealthed in October.

Originally from Hack the Planet, on February 19, 2006 04:50 PM

Six Apart, the creator of blogging products like Moveable Type and Typepad, has raised $12 million in a third round of venture capital, according to IDD Magazine. Intel is rumored to be in on the deal. There's also a discussion about how Wall Street doesn't look ready to take any of these so-called Web 2.0 companies to the public market anytime soon. This follows lots of gossip Friday night at the Techcrunch party about whether there is a bubble now in the Web 2.0 world. Robert Scoble, the Microsoft blogger, took of his shirt in the cold for a "naked" conversation, and writes afterward that there is indeed a bubble. At former Tribe CEO Mark Pincus' party, last Thursday night, the bubble was also dominating discussion. Someone said, about all the financings, but no IPOs: "There's a lot of foreplay going on, but no one goes home to have sex." The answer is yes, there is a bubble, because......

Originally posted by Matt Marshall from SiliconBeat, on February 19, 2006 04:49 PM

Former neocon theorist argues that the ideology that won the cold war has come to threaten peace. "The problem with neoconservatism's agenda lies not in its ends, which are as American as apple pie, but rather in the overmilitarized means by which it has sought to accomplish them. What American foreign policy needs is not a return to a narrow and cynical realism, but rather the formulation of a realistic Wilsonianism that better matches means to ends."

Originally posted by Michal Migurski from tecznotes links, on February 19, 2006 04:49 PM

I think we have finally reached the apex of user generated content.

Offensive on many levels -dj

Originally posted by yatta from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on February 19, 2006 02:58 PM

Originally posted by inkdroid from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on February 19, 2006 02:58 PM

digg it!

Originally posted by mathowie from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on February 19, 2006 02:58 PM

Originally posted by josiahmiller from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on February 19, 2006 02:58 PM

"This video is not playable in your country."

Originally posted by negatendo from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on February 19, 2006 02:57 PM

a screenshot of a new message in Outlook 12 beta [via] 

Originally from Waxy.org Links, on February 19, 2006 02:57 PM

Monday Night -- 02.20.06 -- Trevor Paglen -- Tracking the CIA's Torture Planes

1. This Monday:

What: Presentation / Discussion / Trevor Paglen
Where: 16 Beaver Street, 4th floor (directions)
When: Monday Night 02.20.2006 @ 7:30 Pm
Who: Open To All

We are happy to have Trevor back and we hope you will be able to join us for what should be an interesting evening and discussion.
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2. description
N4467S:
Tracking the CIA's Torture Planes
Trevor Paglen

In order to sidestep international laws against torture, the CIA currently uses a fleet of unmarked airplanes to kidnap, "render," and "disappear" suspected terrorists. The CIA takes these people to a clandestine network of prisons in countries such as Syria, Afghanistan, Egypt, Morocco, Iraq, Poland, and Romania: places where they can be tortured.

Because the CIA uses civilian (rather than military) aircraft for these "black" operations, they leave a publicly-accessible trail of flight logs, registration papers, and other legal documents. These paper trails are filled with forgeries, lies, and cover-stories, but nevertheless contain important clues as to who the "real" people behind these operations and unmarked planes might be.

One of these planes is a Boeing 737. Its tail number is N4467S. It is the property of a company called "Keeler and Tate Management," incorporated by a man named "Tyler Edward Tate." Mr. Tate does not exist.

Over the course of this presentation, we will navigate through the fog of misinformation surrounding Mr. Tate. We will visit the street addresses of his front companies, observe the airfields that his unmarked plane frequents, and introduce ourselves to some of the flesh-and-blood individuals who may have penned his name

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3. Links:

Trevor Paglen http://www.paglen.com/

"Spying on the Government" - An article from the SF Bay Guardian. http://www.sfbg.com/39/31/cover_spying_on_the_government.html

The Federation of American Scientists's Area 51 page
Global Security - Military analyst John Pike's site http://www.sfbg.com/39/31/cover_spying_on_the_government.html

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4. Links – Trevor at 16beaver

Monday Night --Experimental Lecture with Trevor Paglin -- 06.30.03
http://www.16beavergroup.org/events/archives/000252.php

Monday Night 08.08.05-- Trevor Paglen -- The Secret Bases: Exploring the Pentagon's "Black World"
http://www.16beavergroup.org/events/archives/001583.php

Trevor -- The CIA's torture taxi
http://www.16beavergroup.org/mtarchive/archives/001763.php

Rene -- Journalisms -- Interview with Trevor Paglen -- The Black World of the Military -- 08.15.05
http://www.16beavergroup.org/journalisms/archives/001612.php
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5. About Trevor

Trevor Paglen is an artist, writer, and experimental geographer working out of the Department of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is writing a doctoral dissertation about the spatial aspects of military secrecy.

His projects deliberately blur the lines between social science, contemporary art, and a host of even more obscure disciplines in order to construct unfamiliar, yet meticulously researched, ways to interpret the world around us.

Paglen's artwork has shown at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art (2003), U.C. San Diego (2004), the California College of the Arts (2002), the LAB (2005), and numerous other arts venues, universities, conferences, and public spaces. He is a contributing editor to the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest and develops tactical media projects with the prison-abolitionist group Critical Resistance. Paglen’'s writing has been published in Blu Magazine, the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, Art Journal, and will be included in the upcoming collection Inhuman Geographies/Spaces of Political Violence (Routledge, 2006).

Paglen holds a B.A. in Religious Studies from the University of California at Berkeley, and an M.F.A. in Art and Technology from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Originally posted by joy garnett from NEWSgrist - where spin is art, on February 19, 2006 02:57 PM

There's a new trailer up for A Scanner Darkly. This one seems to capture more of the actual tone of the movie, rather than try and portray it a some kind of 'Techno Thriller'. Check it out.

Note: A nice tidbit from the Honorable Jeff Gorvetzian:

Trivia note: The title 'scanner darkly' usually is regarded as a reference to the first Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians (1 Cor 13, 11):
When I was a child, I spake as a child,
I understood as a child, I thought as a child:
but when I became a man, I put away
childish things. For now we see through a
glass, darkly; but then face to face: now
I know in part; but then shall I know even
as also I am known.

But the truth is, Paul got it from Plato (in the Phaedrus):

For, as has been already said, every soul of man has in the way of nature beheld true being; this was the condition of her passing into the form of man. But all souls do not easily recall the things of the other world; they may have seen them for a short time only, or they may have been unfortunate in their earthly lot, and, having had their hearts turned to unrighteousness through some corrupting influence, they may have lost the memory of the holy things which once they saw. Few only retain an adequate remembrance of them; and they, when they behold here any image of that other world, are rapt in amazement; but they are ignorant of what this rapture means, because they do not clearly perceive. For there is no light of justice or temperance or any of the higher ideas which are precious to souls in the earthly copies of them: they are seen through a glass dimly; and there are few who, going to the images, behold in them the realities, and these only with difficulty. There was a time when with the rest of the happy band they saw beauty shining in brightness-we philosophers following in the train of Zeus, others in company with other gods; and then we beheld the beatific vision and were initiated into a mystery which may be truly called most blessed, celebrated by us in our state of innocence, before we had any experience of evils to come, when we were admitted to the sight of apparitions innocent and simple and calm and happy, which we beheld shining impure light, pure ourselves and not yet enshrined in that living tomb which we carry about, now that we are imprisoned in the body, like an oyster in his shell.

Originally from News of the dead, on February 19, 2006 02:57 PM

"I created a Roomba communication API in Java and a GUI in Processing that shows a top-down iconic view of the Roomba universe."

Originally posted by Michal Migurski from tecznotes links, on February 19, 2006 02:57 PM

I'd been following Judith's story of her lost camera with great interest until the latest update shocked me:

"Well," she said, "we have a bit of a situation. You see, my nine year old son found your camera, and we wanted to show him to do the right thing, so we called, but now he's been using it for a week and he really loves it and we can't bear to take it from him."

Judith's not the mob justice type of person, but if ever there were a good reason for a bunch of nosy curious bloggers to track someone down and make them do the right thing, this would be it for me.

I feel bad for a kid whose parents are that lost and misguided.

Originally from Anil Dash, on February 19, 2006 02:40 PM

Product Manager ISO Movable Type users who wish for something more from their comment/ping email notifications.

So the Movable Type team is looking at revising the application's comment and ping notification emails for the next version. We've definitely heard a number of ideas of how these could be made better and I also have my own opinions, but I'd like to hear what you would do to make them as useful as possible to you. I'm talking specifically about email notification here, but if you have thoughts about other methods of notification, by all means feel free to add that as well.

Go crazy in the comments with your wildest desires. Don't be constrained by implementation or what we've done in the past. We may not be able to do everything, but your feedback can certainly head us in the right direction.

Originally from JayAllen - The Daily Journey, on February 19, 2006 02:39 PM

Judith lost her camera and then it was recovered, sort of.

Originally posted by axt from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on February 19, 2006 02:39 PM

Merrill Lynch has published a note on Sony's PlayStation 3 that prices the parts at an estimated $800*, including $230 for the Cell processor and $350 for the Blu-ray drive. That's just the bill of materials, and doesn't include the...

Originally from Guardian Unlimited: Technology blog, on February 19, 2006 02:39 PM

In a city known for its revolving door of young professionals, many a mobile phone number proves that home is where the cell is.

Originally from NYT > Technology, on February 19, 2006 02:39 PM

Three, talented individuals are about to bring you The Style Contest which will pit talented designers against one another in a CSS Zen Garden-style contest to see who can offer up the best designs for using Six Apart's unified templates (compatible with Movable Type, TypePad and LiveJournal).

And yes, there will be excellent prizes.

Kudos to Jesse, Elise and Arvind on what looks to be an awesome show of talent.

Originally from JayAllen - The Daily Journey, on February 19, 2006 02:39 PM

Originally from Stupidfool.org, on February 19, 2006 02:38 PM

look at Biggie!

Originally posted by kick_out_the_internet_jams from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on February 19, 2006 02:38 PM

Thanks to Lars for all of these Youtube videos !!!

Originally posted by kick_out_the_internet_jams from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on February 19, 2006 02:38 PM

Originally posted by miyagawa from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on February 19, 2006 02:37 PM

Last night I watched the movie The Princess Bride for the 137th time.  It just never gets old.  While the entire star-studded cast of The Princess Bride (Billy Crystal, Robin Wright, Christopher Guest, Peter Falk, Wallace Shawn, Carol Kane, Fred Savage) is uniformly fantastic, it is hard to imagine a better role for Mandy Patinkin ("My name is Inigo Montoya . . . you killed my father . . . prepare to die!").  And, yet, I recently learned of the ultimate role for Tony Award winning vocal powerhouse Patinkin.  With any luck he will reprise the role of Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride on Broadway.

That's right, word has it that William Goldman, the author of the book The Princess Bride, and Adam Guettel, 2005 Tony Award winner for his music to Light in the Piazza, are teaming up to bring The Princess Bride to Broadway.  Guettel has Broadway in his blood -- he is the grandson of Richard Rodgers (of Rodgers and Hammerstein fame) and the son of Mary Rogers (of Once Upon a Mattress fame).  And Goldman's storytelling credentials are hard to beat -- he penned the screenplays for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All The President's Men, Marathon Man, and, of course, The Princess Bride.  The combination should be fantastic.  I know I'll be heading to New York as soon as The Princess Bride opens on Broadway.

Originally posted by David Hornik from TED Blog, on February 19, 2006 02:37 PM

Wes Felter calls for the ass fact-checking of William Safire over the latter's article in the NY Times about blog jargon and he's not wrong. Wes correctly notes the etymology of "weblog" and "blog" and hopefully the people responsible for things like the AP Style Guide, English dictionaries, and influential columns like On Language will, at some point, do the 20 minutes of research necessary to convince them and the unwashed journalist masses that "blog" is not and was never short for "web log".

Safire also gets tripped up on where the word "blogosphere" came from. While William Quick's usage in 2002 popularized the term, Brad Graham first used the term in 1999.

Originally from kottke.org, on February 19, 2006 02:37 PM

excellent interview on the history, media coverage, and a potential followup [via] 

Originally from Waxy.org Links, on February 19, 2006 02:36 PM

The Pantheon in Rome was originally built as a temple to the seven deities of the seven planets in the Roman state religion, but has been a Christian church since the 7th century. It is the best-preserved of all Roman buildings and the oldest important building in the world with its original roof intact.

Brandon Rowan from Rome says:

It has a massive hole at the top and it lets in sunlight. It is not glass covered, but there are drainage holes in the floor for rain. It’s amazing how bright it is. There is always a massive light circle on the floor. You have to visit this if you go to Rome.

Thanks Gerhard, Frank & Brandon

Originally posted by Olly from Google Sightseeing, on February 19, 2006 02:36 PM

Originally from WFMU's Beware of the Blog, on February 19, 2006 02:36 PM

I was watching the CBC's sunday report today, and of course, the legacy of Sharon's departure from the Israeli prime ministers office featured largely in that shows broadcast. Sharon's condition remains doubtful. The hemorrhaging in his brain from a severe...

Originally posted by Peter Konefal from Media, Technology and Society, on February 19, 2006 02:36 PM

Problem Summary

A product or website needs to present ratings and reviews with a variety of informational elements.

Unlike the other patterns released today, this pattern is a pure information architecture pattern. It describes what informational elements belong in a user review.

The pattern can be found at: Architecture of a Review.

Tags: patterns, yahoo developer network, yahoo design patterns, information architecture, design, ratings and reviews, ratings, reviews,

Originally posted by Bill Scott from Yahoo! User Interface Blog, on February 19, 2006 02:36 PM

Problem Summary

A user wants to quickly leave their opinion on an object, with minimal interruption to any other task flow they are involved in.

One excellent design principle to follow is to allow the user to leave a light footprint. This means encouraging light-weight actions for engagement by providing invitations. Instead of the user having to go through several steps to rate a movie or a news article, invite them to simply click to rate. The Rating an Object pattern is an excellent example of this principle.

The pattern can be found at: Rating an Object.

Tags: patterns, interaction, input, yahoo developer network, yahoo design patterns, direct manipulation, , patterns, rating, interaction, user generated content,

Originally posted by Bill Scott from Yahoo! User Interface Blog, on February 19, 2006 02:35 PM

shawn's using this

Originally posted by stamen from del.icio.us/inbox/djacobs, on February 19, 2006 02:35 PM

The GameCube has taken over a prominent role in my life again thanks to Chibi Robo. I've been dying to get my hands on this title since the original US release date last fall was delayed. It was finally released last week and my expectations for the game have been met over and over. Besides pretending to be a tiny robot dragging an electrical plug from my butt, the thing I like best about Chibi Robo is that, like Animal Crossing, there are no specific goals or levels to complete. I can take my time to explore my surroundings and do whatever I want. The sense of scale and crude renderings are charmingly reminiscent of Katamari Damacy. The excellent sound design makes the chores easier to do since the accompanying music and sound effects are such great fun to listen to.

Chores have never been so much fun! The downside of the game is my dog is now cursing me for leaving dirty socks and empty boxes all over the floor of my real house since all my time is being invested in yet another virtual home.

Originally posted by yi from hello, nintendo, on February 19, 2006 01:30 AM