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US Congressman and poor-toupee-color-chooser Lamar Smith is the guy who authored the Stop Online Piracy Act . SOPA, as I'm sure you know, is the shady bill that will introduce way harsher penalties for companies and individuals caught violating copyright laws online (including making the unauthorized streaming of copyrighted content a crime which you could actually go to jail for). If the bill passes, it will destroy the internet and, ultimately, turn the world into Mad Max (for more info, go here ). I decided to check that everything on Lamar's official campaign website was copyright-cleared and on the level. Lamar is using several stock images on his site, two of which I tracked back to the same photographic agency. I contacted the agency to make sure he was paying to use them, but was told that it's very difficult for them to actually check to see if someone has permission to use their images.
The Author of SOPA Is a Copyright Violator
Sega Installs 'Toylet' Games in Japan's Urinals | Game|Life
<img src="http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/gamelife/2011/01/toylet.png" alt="" title="toylet" width="620" height="413" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-31645" /> By Duncan Geere, Wired UK Sega has announced that it’s testing consoles called “Toylets” in urinals around Tokyo. The novel hardware asks the user to strategically vary the strength and location of his urine stream to play a series of games. For now, Sega has installed Toylets in four Tokyo metro locations, including Akihabara , Soga and Ikebukuro . The location test will run through Jan. 31.
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List of emoticons
A simple smiley This is a list of notable and commonly used emoticons or textual portrayals of a writer's mood or facial expression in the form of icons . The Western use of emoticons is quite different from Eastern usage, and Internet forums , such as 2channel , typically, show expressions in their own ways.
In the next five years your shoe may be what powers the battery in your cell phone. Engineers are harnessing the power of kinetic energy and one IBM employee thinks widespread usage of the technology isn’t far off. Harry Kolar, an engineer with IBM, described harvesting energy from human movements as bodies becoming “an energy-generating machine,” in a blog post about what energy changes may occur in the next five years . In essence, we create energy from many of the little activities we do throughout the day. This includes the simply click of a heel on the ground, jogging and biking. It’s similar to the hamster on the wheel scenario.
