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Tim Fries made a funny. Poking some fun at the Britney Spears community who appear to think that “People Want To Share Pizza With Britney” is news, and also making some good points about online news.

I used to know this guy. We grew up in the same city, pulling off some *ahem* pranks there too.

I was first introduced to the world of Lego porn by Spike and Mike’s Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation where I saw Rick & Steve The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World

memepool reminds me on a daily basis why I love the net.

Dan Gillmor has an article up where he interviews Tim Berners-Lee about Microsoft blocking competing browsers. Tim was the creater of the web. He understands, and this article shows it.

This is kind of old, but anybody who hasn’t read the space robot ICQ prank over at Something Awful, needs to now. And if you have read this brilliant piece of Internet culture, then head on over to ifilm and watch the Flash animation.

Ever want to write a novel? If so, this site may cure you of that affliction.

Do you develop free software, or are you evil? What?!? Neither? Then off to Yahoo! for you.

Advogato is yet another site experimenting with online trust networks. Badvogato is it’s evil twin brother. There’s some cool shit that’s happening in this area right now.

They’re also project resource sites, much like the currently vaporware ProjectBored will one day be.

Mr. T in Neon Genesis Evangelion? That’s what you get when genetic diversity is applied to net fads.

Wednesday the Senate passed the Anti-Terrorism Bill. Here are just a few of it’s outstanding provisions:

• Grants authority to president to restrict exports of agricultural products, medicine or medical devices to the Taliban or the territory of Afghanistan controlled by the Taliban.
• Authorizes private gift giving to Justice Department’s anti-terrorism emergency reserve
• allows sharing of grand jury and wiretap information for official law enforcement duties

Enough, you get the point. As this article shows, civil liberties are now seriously out of fashion. If you understand why this bill is bad, yay for you. If not, don’t worry. It looks like the Emmy’s are still on.

Hey, they have a .tv domain! For some reason that makes me giggle.