Halloween is a great time to show your respect to the great slumbering elder god Cthulhu by carving a pumpkin in his likeness. Sure, you’ll go mad doing it, but we’re all going to go mad and be devoured anyway, so this way you’ll get to do it in style (and take the neighbours with you) — via The Lovecraftsman
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Just got back from Washington, DC and on the plane to Burbank I sat next to a nice fellow who took an interest in my knitting. It took me two glasses of wine and about sixteen people gasping and asking the man for his autograph before it dawned on me he might be Someone. I did not know he was Someone, I just thought he was quite a character with his red boots and his salty language. He loved my knitting and he thought it would he high-larious for an ex-Marine such as himself to take up knitting as a hobby, proving once again that yarn unites everyone — via CrazyAuntPurl
As previously reported, US film distributor Lightning Entertainment has been approaching Australian ISPs in an attempt to obtain the identities of individuals they say illegal shared the movie Kill The Irishman
.
Of course, it’s the same old story. Threaten to sue individuals but get them to hand over cash settlements instead.
The front company carrying out this work are called Movie Rights Group but until this week the identities of the people behind this group were unknown. An article in The Age has just completely unmasked them.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, especially considering the industry’s efforts around Europe and the United States with similar schemes, the people behind Movie Rights Group (MRG) are rich pornographers — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Dune-themed travel posters by DrFaustusAU, who also posted this week a few more pages in his Cthulhu by Dr Seuss book — via Super Punch
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With the European Greens’ adoption of the Pirate perspective on the copyright monopoly, I have received a few questions from entrepreneurs, the copyright industry lobby, and libertarians why we want to ban Digital Restrictions Management. It’s a good question that deserves a good answer.
First of all, DRM is a type of fraud that robs citizens of their lawful rights. The copyright monopoly is chock full of exceptions that allow copying in many circumstances; DRM takes no notice of this whatsoever but establishes and enforces a superset of restrictions that goes well above and beyond those of the law.
Therefore, to begin with, a ban on DRM can be seen as a form of consumer protection — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Federal Government has quietly deleted a controversial section of text published in a consultation paper last Friday that proposed a streamlined
legal process to aid anti-piracy organisations such as Movie Rights Group and AFACT to target individuals allegedly downloading copyrighted material online.
Last Friday, 14 October, the Department of the Attorney-General published a consultation paper regarding digital copyright regulation. The original paper, available in full here (PDF), contained two discrete sections. The first dealt with a proposal to revise the scope of ‘safe harbour’ regulations to better protect organisations which host others’ content online — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Channel 4 could find itself at the centre of another taste row after agreeing to broadcast a documentary showing the body of a British man being mummified like an Egyptian Pharoah.
The macabre programme, called Mummifying Alan, will make television history when it airs later this month as a scientific embalming experiment is unprecedented — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Richard Gere’s collection of classic guitars and amplifiers, built up over 40 years, has fetched $936,438 (£595,000) at a New York auction.
Top lot at the Christie’s charity sale was a 1960 Gibson Les Paul which was bought by a private collector for $98,500 (£63,000) including commission.
A 1931 CF Martin that went for $62,500 (£40,000), was among three lots bought by the guitar manufacturer.
The actor has said it was painful
to let go of my true friends
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
We here at TAUNTR have recently unearthed an extremely rare photograph of former President Abraham Lincoln taken during his brief, yet memorable stint as a paranormal investigator and eliminator circa 1864 — via TAUNTR.COM
The Call of Cthulhu by HP Lovecraft. For beginning readers — via deviantART
An Austin Powers
actor convicted of torturing a woman in Orange County is suspected of killing his cellmate in a Central Valley prison, authorities said Tuesday.
Joseph Hyungmin Son, 40, allegedly killed his 50-year-old cellmate, who was found dead Monday afternoon at Wasco State Prison Reception Center in Kern County.
The cellmate was a parole violator who had been sentenced to two years in prison for failing to register as a sex offender, according to a prison report. A cause of death was pending — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Emergency crews called to an accident on a film set in Toronto were confronted with alarming blood and gore — but it wasn’t as bad as it looked.
Actors dressed as zombies for the latest Resident Evil film were injured when a high platform moved suddenly.
It did kind of catch us off-guard when we walked in,
said police Sergeant Andrew Gibson — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Do not feed after midnight!, originally uploaded by Chelsea Bloxsom.
Fans of the 80s classic dark comedy horror film, Gremlins, will recognise this bit of advice immediately. A Mogwai is all cute and cuddly … until you get tricked in to feeding it after midnight. Flickr user, loveandasandwhich, created this awesome Gremlins applique piece, and includes a couple of in-progress shots of the fun fur making the transformation in to a Mogwai. Ahhhh … feels like 4th grade all over again — via CRAFT
Laika the dog is seriously styling in this AT-AT costume, created by Katie Mello — via Boing Boing
Apparently there are some politicians who get it
. At least it seems that way after reading an entry on the blog of Rick Falkvinge (founder of the Swedish Pirate Party). He says the Green party group, fifth largest in the European Parliament, has officially adopted several of the Pirate Party’s stances in a new position paper (PDF). The Greens say, the copyright monopoly does not extend to what an ordinary person can do with ordinary equipment in their home and spare time
, adding that a 20-year protection term is more reasonable than 70 years. They go on to say, Net Neutrality must be guaranteed
, and also mention DRM: It must always be legal to circumvent DRM restrictions, and we should consider introducing a ban in the consumer rights legislation on DRM technologies that restrict legal uses of a work
— via Slashdot
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