They hate Flickr for it's Freedom. An
ISP (and government controlled monopoly) in the
United Arab Emirates has decided to ban access to Flickr for it's citizens, apparently due to the complaints of a couple of
UAE expats in the
UK and
Canada. Of course, said blockage won't apply to them. Most interestingly, they blame the rest of the world's non-flesh-fearing photographers as opposed to their ISP (and by proxy their own oppressive government.) Now Flickr joins
Skype, AtomFilms, Friendster, AOL, and anything from Israels top-level domain, as
outlawed content and services in the UAE (related study
here). Well, if they don't care, why should we? Via
linkfilter.
posted by rzklkng
on Jun 22, 2005 -
28 comments
I recalled a few of the Flickrazzi's who post the "how-to's" of their
daily lives. For example,
7-how-7 works for a production company that produces blow-up dolls for the
entertainment film and commercial industry (via
BoingBoing today),
underbunny works as a mortician,
rickenbacker documents his life in fast food, and then there's a variety of active duty military folk who are documenting the mundane "over there", like
ob1left,
nevadog,
At Ease,
Doc Torres,
enlisted cowboy,
Nukeit1,
JeffG,
Luodanli, and the
homsar. But if blogging at work can be bad, than I'm sure taking photos at work and sharing them with the interweb HAS to be worse.
posted by rzklkng
on Apr 21, 2005 -
35 comments
Loose lips sink ships!!!1 (There be images, some quite big here) I suspect a lot of MeFi shares my obsession with
propaganda (and propaganda-style)
posters,
both domestic and foreign, as well as the
photoshops that the
Something Awful or
Fark crowds generate. CoolGov has a link today to the
Office of the National National Counterintelligence Executive and their Anti-Espionage
poster collection.
Some are great, some are almost
pure propaganda, and some show how
obsessed with secrecy our government has become. That lead me to Google to look for posters on the
*.gov and
*.mil domains. Check out the posters for
"Venemous Snakes of Afghanistan and Pakistan", or what the
well dressed airmen is wearing (*note the "Essentials"), posters from the NOAA telling you that
"lightning kills", the
Code of Ethics for Government Officers and Employees, and this one telling GI's why
smoking could kill them.
posted by rzklkng
on Apr 18, 2005 -
22 comments
