The Surrey town of Staines has officially changed its name to Staines-upon-Thames in an attempt to boost its riverside image. Councillors voted for the change last year after the town became synonymous with Sacha Baron Cohen’s spoof rapper Ali G. The name officially changed at 14:00 BST and followed a day of celebrations, including a regatta, [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Britain, England, Fark!, Funnies, Media, Politics, Popular culture
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Tagged ali g, comedy, music, rap culture, sacha baron cohen, staines massive, staines-upon-thames
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I was really sad to read about the recent death of Greg Ham, the flautist from Australian band Men At Work. The cause of death has still not been determined. The worst of it is that right up until his death, Ham appears to have been very distressed about a copyright case, Larrikin Music Publishing [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Also posted in Australia, Intellectual property, Law, Media, Popular culture, Society
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Tagged Colin Hay, copyright, copyright law, Down Under, Greg Ham, I come from a Land Down Under, Intellectual property, Kookaburra sits in the Old Gum Tree, Larrikin Music Publishing Pty Ltd v EMI Songs Australia Ltd, Men at Work, music, rent-seeking, spicks and specks
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February 22, 2012 – 5:52 am
… Before using their cheat sheet [now stolen by Google Plus, sorry]. There’s a parable about the stupidity of intellectual property laws in here, too. UPDATE 29/2/12: Especially given the fact that we’ve now had to re-source the video over eight times due to pursuit by copyright claims. Current copy is here but is subject to [...]
February 19, 2012 – 2:32 am
… Alaska’s got talent. Mind you, I strongly suspect that Mishka the husky’s owner has fed her through Autotune, an ingenious piece of audio processing software that blends pitches to the nearest true semitone (to the exact pitch of the nearest tone in traditional equal temperament). While huskies are among the most tuneful of dogs (in part through [...]
February 11, 2012 – 5:51 am
All the way from Pyongyang, where the hep cats of North Korea are at it again. According to Tom G. Palmer — who visited last year – they like accordion playing there, it seems. Everyone who visits gets to see a room full of girls playing the accordion, with a photo of the Maximum leader and [...]
January 29, 2012 – 11:50 pm
Various people wrote thoughtful responses to my piece on the distinction between principled and means-end limits to law in the context of the ongoing Melinda Tankard Reist v Jennifer Wilson dust-up. I was rather busy last week and so didn’t respond; I figured I ought to respond, so here are some comments and thoughts (still, [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Also posted in Feminism, Free Speech, Law, Personal liberty, Politics, Popular culture, Tort
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Tagged #MTRsues, abortion, Anne Summers, Brendan O'Neill, Code Napoléon, Collective Shout, comorra, david cameron, demand inelasticity, Eva Cox, Jennifer Wilson, jurisprudence, Kanye West, Melinda Tankard Reist, nadine dorries, pornography, Prohibition, Ron Paul, Russell Blackford, war on drugs
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August 16, 2011 – 5:59 am
I’ve long maintained that race is almost meaningless when it comes to analysing urban disorder in Britain, and the latest burst of destructiveness has done nothing to change my view. In Britain, class is where it’s at, but not the sort of class you’d recognise from the pages of Karl Marx (who is, I’m afraid, [...]
August 11, 2011 – 2:09 am
And that’s just the Mayor… I was watching the TV news in the Canadian town of Calgary last night as I waited to catch a plane, and as the images of a blazing London filled the screen I felt a series of emotions. I felt a sickening sense of incredulity that this could really be [...]
So NSFW we had to leave it until the weekend. Tim Minchin seems to be taking the sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church quite personally… though with stories like this one I can rather see his point (and I did like the flasher can-can).
By DeusExMacintosh
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Also posted in Fark!, Funnies, Religion, Sexuality
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Tagged catholic sex abuse scandal, ear worm du jour, paedophile priests, pope benedict, Roman Catholic Church, sex abuse, the holy see, the vatican, Tim Minchin
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One could do worse than join the crew of the Starship Enterprise and head off to explore the universe right now, all the while knowing that your home planet has solved the problem of scarcity… Alternatively, (and in other Trek related news), this guy has landed the ultimate Trek geek’s job – after being talent [...]
