AT&T censor Pearl Jam at Lollapalooza…
A webcast of Pearl Jam’s set at the recent Lollapalooza festival was apparently censored by AT&T in order to remove certain lyrics aimed at U.S. President George Bush. This censorship has brought a strong (and justifiable) reaction from the band, which can be read here.
The video below explains a little more why this is potentially such a big issue…
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[tags]Pearl Jam, Lollapalooza , AT&T, Censorship, Media, Net Neutrality, Telecommunications, Internet Access[/tags]
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Now playing: Mute Math – Plan B
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Home Office 2.0
The past week has been quite a busy and eventful one, for lots of reasons, many of which I won’t go into here. However….
Steph and I are now the proud owners of new office furniture! Not content with new garden furniture we managed to blag some un-wanted office furniture , so we now have a really nice office set-up at one end of the living room, with a nice big desk – it means that the living room is now part home office as well, but it’s going to be really useful for both of us to have somewhere to keep our plethora of technology and means our dining table may get used for eating off a little more, instead of computing on. We’re still working on how best to have everything laid out, but we’re getting there and once we’ve purchased some shelves we should be set!
The house is currently in a state of chaos because at the same time as receiving this new furniture we decided to decorate Jordan’s bedroom and surprise him when he comes back next week – it looks like it’s going to turn out really well, but we’re currently living in chaos with every room in the house turned upside down – I’m sure it’ll all be worth it once we’re finished though!
I’m going to go and research office layouts and aesthetics now, in the hope of finding some useful tips, while fending off the mosquitoes that are eating us alive at the moment.
[tags]Home Office, Self Employment, Living[/tags]
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Now playing: Mute Math – Reset
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