Archive for the ‘Events’ Category
The Onion Was Hacked Or Maybe It’s a Crazy Joke
A few minutes ago, The Onion’s official Twitter account let loose a series of tweets that suggested it had been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army, the same outfit responsible for taking down the Associated Press’ and CBS’ account. Of course the possibility of this being some meta-joke has twisted everyone’s brains into pretzels.
Bud Light’s Facebook Page – Business Insider
Bud Light thrust itself into the middle of the gay marriage conversation by posting an ad on its Facebook page promoting equality.
The pic features a pair of Bud Light cans aligned like an equals sign.
In around 15 hours, the post has accumulated more than 34,000 ‘likes’ and racked up 1,400 comments.
The response from commenters was predictable.
The thread devolved into one gigantic internet fight.
Stars turn out for funeral of comedian Norman Collier | This is Grimsby
Some of Britain’s best-loved entertainers said farewell to Hull comedian Norman Collier at his funeral today.
Russ Abbott, Roy Chubby Brown, Little and Large and Tom O’Connor were among the mourners at St Helen’s Church in Welton.
via Stars turn out for funeral of comedian Norman Collier | This is Grimsby.
Bike-Share Equipment Apparently Damaged by Flooding – NYTimes.com
New York City’s seemingly star-crossed bike-share program, once promised for last summer but delayed until the spring amid software problems, has found its way into Hurricane Sandy’s unsparing path.
The storm dumped several feet of water at some points across the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where the city had been storing equipment like bicycles and docking stations in Building 293, near the northern tip of the yard and the waters of Wallabout Bay.
Building 293 was among those that flooded, and a spokesman for the mayor’s office said Tuesday that there appeared to be damage to program equipment, including docking stations for bicycles, as a result.
via Bike-Share Equipment Apparently Damaged by Flooding – NYTimes.com.
World’s best beards and moustaches celebrated in Las Vegas | Metro.co.uk
The world’s funkiest facial hair was on display at the weekend event, with categories ranging from the ‘delicate Dali’ moustache to the ‘anything-goes full beard freestyle’.
More than 3,000 ‘beardsmen’ took part in the competition which aims to find the best facial fuzz across 17 categories.
The most ambitious full beards, styled sideburns and the traditional English moustache were also celebrated at the event currently in its third year.
via World’s best beards and moustaches celebrated in Las Vegas | Metro.co.uk.
Occupy protesters were right, says Bank of England official – Telegraph
Andrew Haldane, a member of the Bank’s financial policy committee, said the Occupy movement was correct in its attack on the international financial system.
The Occupy movement sprang up last year and staged significant demonstrations in both the City of London and New York, protesting about the unequal distribution of wealth and the influence of the financial services industry. Members of the movement occupied the grounds of St Paul’s and remained camped there for more than three months until police evicted them in February last year.
“Occupy has been successful in its efforts to popularise the problems of the global financial system for one very simple reason; they are right,” Mr Haldane said last night. Mr Haldane, the Bank’s executive director for financial stability, was speaking to Occupy Economics, an offshoot of the Occupy movement, at an event in central London.
In a speech entitled Socially Useful Banking, he said the protesters had helped bring about a “reformation” in financial services and the way they are regulated.
Partly because of the protests, he suggested, both bank executives and policymakers were persuaded that banks must behave in a more moral way, and take greater account of inequality in wider society.
via Occupy protesters were right, says Bank of England official – Telegraph.
Twitter releases Occupy protester’s tweets to NY judge: Why it caved on users’ privacy.
Twitter surprised and impressed civil liberties groups this summer by taking a stand on behalf of an Occupy Wall Street protester’s privacy. Ordered by the judge in a New York criminal case to dredge up and hand over deleted tweets from activist Malcolm Harris (@destructuremal), Twitter fought back and appealed, arguing its users own their own Twitter data. Groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the ACLU joined the fight on Twitter’s side.
The government, though, played dirty. Judge Matthew Sciarrino, Jr. this week told Twitter on Tuesday that if it didn’t fork over Harris’ data within three days, it would face contempt of court and a stiff fine. That’s not the dirty part. As Sciarrino noted, “I can’t put Twitter or the little blue bird in jail, so the only way to punish is monetarily.” The dirty part is that Sciarrino claimed that, in order to determine the appropriate fine, he would need Twitter’s financial records from the past two quarters. That’s anathema for a private startup clawing to keep its competitive edge, as Sciarrino surely knows.
The company’s response was predictable. “They’re going to tweet like canaries,” the New York Post reported this morning. Indeed, Reuters reports that the company asked the judge “pretty please” one last time in court on Friday, then gave up the goods. Harris’ records will remain under seal pending another appeal from his own lawyers next week.
via Twitter releases Occupy protester’s tweets to NY judge: Why it caved on users’ privacy..
blog.reddit — what’s new on reddit: Internet 2012 Bus Tour – A Campaign to Promote the Open Internet
On January 18, 2012, the reddit community & tens of millions of Americans defeated SOPA & PIPA, two bills that threatened the Internet, one of the healthiest parts of the American economy. Now we’re making sure our government understands just how important the Open Internet is to all Americans.
This October reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, Erik Martin (reddit GM), other reddit staff, and some entrepreneurs are taking a bus* (literally half red, half blue) through the Midwest to rally reddit and the larger Open Internet community and campaign for the Open Internet during the Presidential & Vice Presidential debates.
This isn’t just about Silicon Valley and big web companies. Start-ups, local governments, small businesses and web savvy individuals across the country are using the platform of the Open Internet to start new businesses, learn new skills, earn extra income, and make their budgets go further. If you have a story like this, please post it to /r/Internet2012. The Internet 2012 Bus Tour will collect, document and share these stories from the American heartland. We will have 10 journalists from major outlets on the bus, as well as our own documentary crew to capture and tell these stories.
We need your help to make this happen. reddit is covering the hard costs of the trip (gas, bus, driver etc), but we need your contributions to get a proper graphic wrap for the bus, host events across the country, and properly document and share the stories we find with the whole Internet. Please consider participating in our Fundraiser on IndieGoGo. We’ve got some great perks like a DRM-free documentary of the whole campaign trip, a chance to have your face inside the bus, a sentimental postcard or even an equally sentimental drunk-dial. You’ll also be part of a fun and powerful project to protect the Open Internet. If you can’t contribute, please help spread the word. We’ve already gotten awesome tips and connections from redditors at /r/Internet2012 and we’ll be updating /r/Internet2012 with details and stories from the road.
via blog.reddit — what’s new on reddit: Internet 2012 Bus Tour – A Campaign to Promote the Open Internet.
