There seems to be
a lot of bleeping going on lately. But now it's time, with the help of our friend Count von
Count Bleep (
wikipedia), to
bleep the number of times you can have a laugh with the
bleeping bleeps.
Start here and then go on:
1,
2,
3,
4,
5;
And more
bleeping fun with Ernie, Bert, Oscar, and the Cookie Monster:
1,
2,
3,
4.
[more inside]
posted by omegar
on Feb 25, 2008 -
20 comments
The talk show host, Miss Oprah Winfrey is illegally invading my privacy to promote show ideas on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Further, each time I gather evidence of proof, she pays people with her talk show earnings money to bribe them to destroy evidence. Many more complaints to the FCC about selected tv shows
here.
posted by oxford blue
on Jan 31, 2008 -
76 comments
In 1964, a clean-cut college student named
Jim Morrison appeared in a
promotional film for
Florida State University.
[previously] The following year, Jim moved to California and transferred to UCLA's film school. After earning his degree, Morrison got together with another talented young
filmmaker named
Ray Manzarek, and they started a little band called
The Doors. Jim didn't return to Florida until 1969, by which time he'd become one of the
biggest rock stars in the world. Then, in what
VH1 would later call the
31st most shocking moment in rock & roll
history, he exposed his private parts and simulated masturbation and copulation during a concert in Miami —
in front of innocent children. A felony.
[This was not the first or last run-in Jim (aka "Mr Mojo Risin", aka "The Lizard King") had with the police. But that's not to say he was all bad.] Despite the absence of any photographic evidence
(audio only), when the case
went to trial Morrison was found guilty of indecent exposure and public profanity, both misdemeanors. He was sentenced to 6 months in prison, but allowed to remain free on bail pending appeal.
[His estranged father put in a good word for him with the Department of Probation.] At the time of
Jim Morrison's death in a Parisian bath tub in 1971,
his appeal had not yet been heard.
[This is THE END.]
posted by Poolio
on Sep 3, 2007 -
84 comments
Frank Zappa' was so many different things
{ Mother of Invention, orchestra conductor, garage freak, SNL musical guest, anti-censorship advocate, home movie maker, Congressional witness, Monkee, documentary film subject, whipping boy, drug trafficker, late-night TV talk show interviewee, death wisher, composer, Dance Fever judge, master of his domain, dental floss tycoon, cosmic force, breast man, Crossfire combatant and The Walrus, among others } that the one day
he was recently given by Baltimore's Mayor hardly seems enoughs.
posted by Poolio
on Aug 12, 2007 -
79 comments
"I find it kind of funny to be hassled for using [them] when my intention is to free us from hassling people for using them." Thirty five years later, George Carlin's
seven dirty words still aren't forgotten by his
arresting officer.
"I couldn't believe my ears," Elmer Lenz remembers.
"I couldn't see why nobody was doing anything about it."
posted by miss lynnster
on Jul 5, 2007 -
37 comments
"I wasn't worried about freedom, I was worried about people turning into morons by TV." Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451, recently
interviewed by LA Weekly , says that the famed story of Guy Montag is not a forewarning of government
censorship, but rather it is an inditement of television which is creating a society that focuses on
memorizing facts and dates rather than studying literature
.
In interviews at his home (grainy quicktime video goodness)
,
especially (1), and
(2)
, Mr. Bradbury discusses his intentions, amongst other things, of Fahrenheit 451 and "laments the moronic influence of popular culture through local TV news."
All Of
Our
teachers
Were
Wrong .
posted by fizzix
on Jun 5, 2007 -
117 comments
livejournal permanently suspends hundreds of accounts under pressure from "watchdog" group
Warriors for Innocence (sketchy, possibly spyware laden site created by pretty shady
people). Though the aim of the crackdown is seemingly to protect children from online predators, many suspended journals and communities apparently had nothing to do with promoting pedophilia, and the broad-based approach taken by livejournal has many users
irate (over 3700 comments as of posting), especially in light of the fact that that neither
livejournal nor the owner
Six Apart have publically addressed users, though Six Apart did speak to CNET as linked above.
posted by 6550
on May 30, 2007 -
152 comments
Soldiers may no longer use MySpace to communicate with family. The Defense Department will begin "worldwide" blocking access, as of today, to
YouTube,
Metacafe,
IFilm,
StupidVideos,
FileCabi,
MySpace,
BlackPlanet, Hi5,
Pandora,
MTV,
1.fm,
live365, and
Photobucket on its computers and networks, according to a memo sent Friday by Gen. B.B. Bell, the U.S. Forces Korea commander. Note that most soldiers deployed in war zones don't have access to any network outside of the military network.
posted by dejah420
on May 14, 2007 -
76 comments
An Indonesian TV crew was invited to Malaysia for their Visit Malaysia Year 2007 campaign but encountered many problems.
They write up about it - and start a flurry of comments and controversy across the Malaysian government about blogging. [more inside]
posted by divabat
on Apr 6, 2007 -
14 comments
Although I Am Dead (
YouTube) (Parts
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10) Compelling documentary by
Hu Jie (胡杰) on the death during the Cultural Revolution of Bian Zhongyun (卞仲耘), recalled by her now octogenarian husband. He photographed her corpse after she was beaten to death by Red Guards, students at the middle school of which she was deputy principal. The film's inclusion in the documentary section of
YunFest has apparently led to the
authorities shutting down the event.
(Via)
posted by Abiezer
on Apr 5, 2007 -
19 comments
Feds seek to gag D.C. Madam this madam threatens to spill the names about the biggies that used her services and so:
[...]government lawyers claim that some discovery documents contain "personal information" about Palfrey's former johns and prostitutes that is "sensitive." The prosecution filing does not detail the nature of this confidential information, though the identity of Palfrey's D.C. customers would surely be cloaked if the protective order was signed by Judge Gladys Kessler[...]
posted by Postroad
on Mar 7, 2007 -
46 comments
Whu? Bill O'Reilly does a respectably good interview with...
Marilyn Manson! This is surprising on so many levels. And the content, superb. Well worth the viewing.
[video link] via Cyberdork via Reddit
posted by five fresh fish
on Feb 28, 2007 -
63 comments
Malaysian bookstore Silverfish Books recently
pubhlished a list of books restricted by the Malaysian Home Ministry (confiscated at the border by Customs) - a list that includes
Chinese teapots,
children's prayers, and
Dora the Explorer. Banned books & magazines
aren't exactly news in Malaysia; indeed, possession of said books can lead to
severe penalties, even jail time.The Opposition
has made a statement before, but that hasn't led anywhere. However, since Silverfish's list, Malaysian bloggers have had enough with the arbitrary and Kafka-esque bans and restrictions, and have come together to form
Manuscripts Don't Burn, to protest and talk about banned books and the larger issue of freedom of speech in Malaysia.
posted by divabat
on Nov 7, 2006 -
19 comments
Blacklisted! The
bankruptcy of the liberal
Air America Radio Network is old news. What's new is a leaked ABC memo to affiliates (.
pdf original) listing 90 corporations and major advertisers that stipulated that their ads not be aired during the broadcast of Air America content.
Is there any hope that radio or television news in the United States can report stories that do not uniformly support the goals and viewpoints of the S&P 500?
There are of course,
alternative models. Is it time for a
PBS Newschanel?
posted by washburn
on Nov 4, 2006 -
58 comments
Stewart Lee of 'Jerry Springer the Opera' fame discusses the rise of religious intolerance to comments the believer disagree's with. Interesting in that this is not just the usual freedom loving athiest vs. god loving believers, but that we also have religious people arguing that God can survive some satire and deploring the fundamentalist intolerance of dissent. Prt
2,
3,
4,
5,
6
posted by Gratishades
on Sep 25, 2006 -
32 comments
Raed Jarrar was coming home from Jordan wearing a T-shirt with the phrase "We will not be silent" in Arabic script and English. Other JetBlue passengers who could not read the Arabic were "offended" and
she was apprehended by security and asked to replace it. She also had her seat changed to the back of the plane. Variations on T-shirt airline censorship have
happened before, but, taken to extremes, the fear of foreign language has
spawned some unpleasant nights. Where is the line drawn? And where is the path to multicultural reconciliation?
posted by ed
on Aug 21, 2006 -
70 comments
PM of Malaysia: Those who spread untruths on the Net will be detained Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Prime Minister of Malaysia, warned all bloggers that "if information in blogs, websites and online portals were incorrect, bordered on slander, caused disturbance or compelled the public to lose faith in the nation’s economic policies, their authors would be detained for investigation". The Malaysian government is even
considering adjusting the Printing Presses and Publications Act^ to include blogs and online media.
This comes hot on the heels of a government-ordered
media blackout on
Article 11, a coalition of NGOs dedicated to upholding the principles of Article 11 of the Malaysian constitution, about freedom of religion, after
several protests claiming Article 11 to be anti-Muslim and confusing it with the now-defunct
Interfaith Comission Initiative, which aimed to be a body of people of different faiths raising awareness about diversity of religion and working together on religious issues.
Minister of Energy, Water, and Communications Dr Lim Keng Yaik said that they will
not censor the Internet (as promised when the
Multimedia Super Corridor was launched), but after events such as prominent Malaysian political blogger
Jeff Ooi being investigated over a supposedly offensive comment on his blog entry about Islam in 2005, and alternative news source
MalaysiaKini's office
raided after carrying a letter critical of the ruling party's policies in 2003, no one is really quite sure.
posted by divabat
on Aug 3, 2006 -
16 comments
Blogspot, Geocities, and TypePad blocked in India. Indian ISPs, who had been ordered by the Indian government to block
certain
blogs, have blocked the entire blogspot.com, geocities.com, and typepad.com
(by IP), rendering hundreds of thousands of blogs inaccessible in India. The block
was ordered by the government apparently because terrorists were using blogs to
co-ordinate their activities. Indian bloggers,
upset
at the blanket ban, have
started
a wiki to keep track of the situation. They have also created a
mailing
list to discuss the issue. Some
prominent
Indian
bloggers are also
tracking updates. Indian laws require
ISPs to install filtering equipment and follow government orders to block sites,
or the can lose their licence to operate. This is not the first time such an
incident has occurred. In 2003, the government ordered a block on a Yahoo group
that was supposedly anti-national. Indian ISPs ended up
blocking
Yahoo Groups completely. India's recently introduced
Right-to-Information
Act, which many bloggers are planning to use, gives the government 30
days to respond to an RTI request. In the interim, despite
national
and international coverage of the issue from the likes of New York Times
(linked earlier),
Washington
Post,
CNN,
New
Statesman, and
WSJ
(paid reg. required), these major blogging sites remain blocked.
posted by madman
on Jul 19, 2006 -
37 comments
