Peter Black's Freedom to Differ

Daily Twitter Links

These are some of the things I've been tweeting about today:

• this is amazing: "By the Sword: The Science of Sword-Swallowing" pjblack.me/AfEQEq
• from @buzzfeed: "'The Brady Bunch Movie' Kids: Where Are They Now?" pjblack.me/xv3qpN
• again, i think there is a lot to this: "Why Twitter’s new policy is helpful for free-speech advocates"pjblack.me/xkKLwv
• not all food should be photographed and posted to the internet: "Amateur Food Porn Has Got To Stop"pjblack.me/yx61t5

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  who wants a sweet ‘n sour stephen col-pear?: "Buy You a Drink: A Highly American Cocktail for Stephen Colbert" pjblack.me/xggJH2
• america now knows how the rest of the world feels when it comes to tv shows: "Is it OK to steal 'Downton Abbey'?" pjblack.me/xjoHbO
• this is so true: "Angry Nerds: Copyright Theft Is Bad, When It Happens To People We Like"pjblack.me/zYsyDw #lwb486 #lws008 #kkb175
• from the @guardian: "Refused honours: who were the people who said no? (And help us find out)"pjblack.me/A2D6C8
• "The H.I.V. Scare: Three friends got unexpected news about H.I.V. Was I next?" pjblack.me/yEvhiA
• six services that preserve your facebook page on actual paper: "Thanks for the Memories"pjblack.me/ygs1UJ
• from @arstechnica: "Mega-man: The fast, fabulous, fraudulent life of Megaupload's Kim Dotcom"pjblack.me/AD8nzO
• from @NiemanLab: "David Skok: Aggregation is deep in journalism’s DNA" pjblack.me/wt3Tas
• "What Do Elites Know Of Ordinary Americans?" pjblack.me/ydMzI4
• the likely best picture winner at the academy awards: "Michel Hazanavicius Tops DGA Awards for 'The Artist'" pjblack.me/zDZPue
• "Australia plummets in press freedom index" pjblack.me/xlrBfK #lwb480 #kkb175
• i thought he had already endorsed the american people?: "Cain Endorses Gingrich for President"pjblack.me/zdvRmS
• interesting analysis from @AntonyGreenABC: "The Battle for Ashgrove - What Past results Tell Us"pjblack.me/x9x6cV #qldvotes #qldpol
• "The Top 10 Steps You Must Take To Use Anger Effectively" pjblack.me/zH0nQB
• a good piece on how twitter is transforming political campaigns: "Twitter Is a Critical Tool in Republican Campaigns" pjblack.me/yVBipA
• "Hollywood Fixer Opens His Little Black Book: Scotty Bowers and His Sexual Tell-All of Old Hollywood"pjblack.me/zW7JVH
• from @THResq: "Universal Music May Have Inadvertently Exposed a Flaw in the YouTube Takedown Process" pjblack.me/wLZJEu #lwb486 #lws008
• louise adler is wrong to say university e-presses are lightweight affairs: "E-presses punch above their weight" pjblack.me/Aalo4J
• i think there really is a lot to this: "The Trouble With 'Free'" pjblack.me/xONBbh

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  you don't really think of google as "beautiful": "Larry Page’s 'Beautiful' New Google" pjblack.me/wWDFlr
• the whole megaupload case is fascinating: "Megaupload: A Lot Less Guilty Than You Think"pjblack.me/yjEMHF #lwb486 #lws008
• interesting but unsurprising: "Aussies reluctant to pay for web content" pjblack.me/wfDZRK
• from @CNN: "50 new tech tools you should know about" pjblack.me/yQs5Og
• from legally weird: "'Toxic Tush' Talk Show Brawl: Alleged Butt Injections Asst. Attacked"pjblack.me/A5iSZS
• "Saturday Night Live: From John Belushi to Tina Fey, the best stories ever written about the show"pjblack.me/AllDZ4

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Hollywood's long war on technology

via boingboing.net

Attorney Sues Himself

via www.loweringthebar.net

Daily Twitter Links

These are some of the things I've been tweeting about today:

• "Gingrich and Romney are both consummate insiders. So why is only Gingrich able to portray himself as an outsider?" pjblack.me/w7cjZx
• from @BoingBoing: "Guy who built epic "Star Trek Apartment" may lose it in divorce" pjblack.me/zZSCdU

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  i'm sure @piawaugh will continue to do impressive things, wherever she is: "Pia Waugh quits as Senator Lundy advisor" pjblack.me/xfHkS2
• another for the "be careful what you tweet" file: "Barrister who Tweeted insults struck off"pjblack.me/xasQum /via @Telegraph
• i do love new york: "Screwy Weather Makes New York Look Amazing" pjblack.me/zdMOkk
• haha this is clever: "Too Busy To Actually Call Your Mom? Hashtagmom Does It When You Check-In"pjblack.me/AtXMKd
• this is probably true: "iPad Textbooks: Reality Less Revolutionary Than Hardware" pjblack.me/zUBzt4
• warning: do not eat magnets: "Popular magnets pose risk if swallowed" pjblack.me/AolxZT
• "Teens Having Sex At Home: Should Parents Allow It or Forbid It?" pjblack.me/z6Aqw1
• from @thewrap: "Gay Actors Still Worry That Coming Out Will Hurt Their Careers" pjblack.me/wBk1xe
• this looks interesting: "Uberpaper aims to kill the echo chamber of social news" pjblack.me/wrZugF
• from @TIMEHealthland: "We Nag. And Why We Shouldn’t" pjblack.me/yCpHf6
• i hope she stays on and runs for president in 2016: "Hillary Clinton Suggests She Won't Return as Secretary of State" pjblack.me/x2Yl3F
• "If 2012's Oscar-nominated movie posters told the truth" pjblack.me/A5IMxT
• "Ferris Bueller Returns for the Super Bowl" pjblack.me/wpajR2
• "Kyle Sandilands not worried by ACMA inquiry" pjblack.me/wblt9b #lwb480
• "European Parliament Official In Charge Of ACTA Quits, And Denounces The 'Masquerade' Behind ACTA"pjblack.me/w3NNEZ #lwb486
• "Sheldon Adelson, Newt Gingrich, and the largest campaign donations in U.S. history." pjblack.me/xUEdlH
• and neither am i: "Why Nobody's Mad at Twitter's International Censorship Move" pjblack.me/zMihrr
• i think some australian states should do this too: "More States Join On The Queer License Plate Bandwagon" pjblack.me/z4NEUn
• it makes the american media: "Australian Political Leader Caught Plagiarizing 'The American President'"pjblack.me/xFOqNz #auspol #lwb486
• "Insane English copyright ruling creates ownership in the idea of a photo's composition"pjblack.me/xsb6IA/via @shaneogden #lwb486
• this is just ridiculous: "Today's insanity: homemade bungee jumping" pjblack.me/y7br5z

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  from @THResq: "James Cameron Sued For Stealing 'Avatar' (Again)" pjblack.me/AuNkBt #lwb486 #lws008
• this is an interesting question: "Legal Ethics on the Interwebs" pjblack.me/Asi9XQ
• this is a good choice: "Emma Alberici to host Lateline" pjblack.me/wKwPXQ
• from legally weird: "Baltimore Priest Arrested for Indecent Exposure in Porn Shop" pjblack.me/xxwrPu
• some examples of jurors tweeting on @storify: "Court Tweets" pjblack.me/zMNtZN
• pajamas in public: "The Pajama Manifesto: Wear them to work. Wear them to the store. Wear them everywhere." pjblack.me/xdbAFl
• from @typographica: "Our Favorite Typefaces of 2011" pjblack.me/xjeuf6
• this could be cool: "Juicebox Wants to Be Your Phone Charger Away From Home" pjblack.me/zJJhUi
• "Newt's Very Bad Night" writes @davidfrum pjblack.me/xSX51I

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3 Reasons Not to Get Worked Up Over Super PACs

Nick Gillespie has produced a short video outlinging three reasons not to get worked up about Super PACs:

Daily Twitter Links

These are some of the things I've been tweeting about today:

• "Debate rages as Spotify, MOG, and Rdio kill / save 

  
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  the music industry" pjblack.me/A9Oc4b #lwb486 #lws008
• another bizarre chicken nugget story: "17-Year-Old Girl Has Eaten Chicken Nuggets Every Day for the Last 15 Years" pjblack.me/zCenDr 
• what is facebook up to?: "Facebook Just Hired a Managing Editor With a J-School Degree" pjblack.me/wwKeSt
• "Once Again, RSS Is Dead. But ONLY YOU Can Save It!" says @johnbattelle pjblack.me/AdaOT3
• more on this: "On Twitter, censorship and Internet freedom" pjblack.me/yN9mGR
• a reasoned, rational response to twitter's announcement about geoblocking tweets: "Thoughts on Twitter’s Latest Move" pjblack.me/zKeOOJ

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  "CNN, Behind on TV Ratings, Surpasses Rivals Online" pjblack.me/yUVrub
• from @THR: "The Academy's Decision to Use e-Voting Could Have Far-Reaching Implications" pjblack.me/yh8D9c
• from @thewrap: "The Oscars Go Digital - Finally - With Online Voting" Awards pjblack.me/y3dRU5
• analysis of the latest gop debate from @jdickerson: "Jacksonville, Fla., debate: Romney pounds Gingrich"pjblack.me/xfLiG7
• the end of porn?: "Condom Initiative by Anti-AIDS Group Threatens Porn Industry" pjblack.me/xWGmpy
• was this the first same-sex kiss in the movies ... in 1927?: "The Original Brokeback?" pjblack.me/zlGJcp
• is science getting close to inventing an invisibility cloak?: "Invisibility cloak a sight for sore eyes" pjblack.me/Asa3QQ
• how the internet enables lies?: "Anti-vaccine activists, 9/11 deniers, and Google’s social search" pjblack.me/ycgCH5
• ben smith moves from @politico to @buzzfeed: "The Buzz About BuzzFeed" pjblack.me/yK8igl

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  from @NYMag: "How Citizens United Created Newt" pjblack.me/yNhEo6
• more bad news for uq: "Charges may flow from Queensland University scandal" pjblack.me/Ai5KTu
• "Megaupload: Will Anti-Piracy Efforts Have a 'Chilling Effect' on Innovation?" pjblack.me/ybc4Vr #lwb486#lws008
• "The SOPA War: A Frantic Call, an Aborted Summit, and Dramatic New Details on How Hollywood Lost"pjblack.me/yx1SPo #lwb486 #lws008
• from @arstechnica: "Europe proposes a 'right to be forgotten'" pjblack.me/zYvCVj
• us representative darrell issa says "'ACTA is More Dangerous Than SOPA'" pjblack.me/yIn5UJ #lwb486#lws008
• employers baffled by poor judgment shown on facebook: "Professional networking weakens link between staff and bosses" pjblack.me/wC5Gd1
• the first indigenous lawyer to be appointed to a federal court: "Indigenous role model Matthew Myers is here to help" pjblack.me/AqNPYo
• the australian profiles high court judge virginia bell: "Social justice is judge Bell's leading light" pjblack.me/xjPx1T
• "Twitter Announces It May Now 'Withhold' Different Tweets In Different Countries" pjblack.me/zwWYxL
• from @politico: "Florida GOP debate: 7 takeaways" pjblack.me/w8Tk7j
• i do need to get into reddit: "The Reddit Revolution: How a Site for Sharing Lolcats Became a Major Political Player" pjblack.me/xxOtHZ
• "Timehop, A Time Machine For Your Social Media Updates, Gets $1.1M From Foursquare Founders And Others" pjblack.me/AyGyls

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  this is exciting: "Pic reunites Monty Python members" pjblack.me/w0TR70
• from @NiemanLab: "New Facebook data: Be topical, ask questions, and tell jokes to win audience"pjblack.me/xdAPKc
• from legally weird: "Teen Calls 911 Over Her Mom's Loud, 'Disrespectful' Sex" pjblack.me/yG3KUD
• sounds like romney had a good win: "Florida CNN Debate Reax" pjblack.me/zKA9ax
• "Does Google accurately guess your age and gender?" pjblack.me/yjXZJ9 ... find out here t.co/cAeNgdg8
• club troppo's weekly wrap of the australian blogosphre: "Missing Link Friday – Australia Day etc" pjblack.me/xirhFh
• freelance journalist alexandra lamb with "The Real Tent Embassy Story" pjblack.me/xzk2Uw #auspol
• apple announced $13.06 billion in profit in one quarter: "The Day Apple Left The Tech World’s Collective Mouth Agape" pjblack.me/yNE4s7
• from @FastCompany: "Culture Eats Strategy For Lunch" pjblack.me/xkhouB
• "By leveraging social media for impact academics can create broader support for our intellectual work and profession" pjblack.me/yxTtpy
• from @forbes: "Who Are The Top 50 Social Media Power Influencers?" pjblack.me/zrAQPW
• this would increase the number of people treated for it: "Depression’s Criteria May Be Changed to Include Grieving" pjblack.me/xdmS1d
• from @salon: "Why playing the sex card backfires" pjblack.me/xr3r88
• a debate at the @nytimes: "Should Parents Control What Kids Learn at School?" pjblack.me/xI37Fn
• from @PopMech: "The Looming Threat of a Solar Superstorm" pjblack.me/zxvgUw
• did financial meltdown of 2008 happen because government policies failed or because they succeeded too well? pjblack.me/xM69jx
• this looks cool: "Between Nothing And A Blog: Check Out CheckThis, A Cool New Micro-Publishing Tool"pjblack.me/xI6fEA
• "Bring Back the Stylus!: Steve Jobs hated it, but the iPad and iPhone could use a pseudo-pen" says slate's @fmanjoo pjblack.me/yDMdkX
• from @arstechnica: "'We're just like YouTube,' Megaupload lawyer tells Ars" pjblack.me/zCUcro #lwb486#lws008

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  i do love my apple tv: "Why Apple TV is finally starting to matter" pjblack.me/xPrVpV
• this is a cool design for a coffee shop (even if it is starbucks): "A Coffee Shop Made Out of Shipping Crates"pjblack.me/zXSqsq
• "15 Funny Facebook Timeline Cover Photos" pjblack.me/AsXisO
• catching up on the dramatic events of today: "Riot police rescue Gillard, Abbott from protesters"pjblack.me/AyZSlz

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Daily Twitter Links

These are some of the things I've been tweeting about today:

• from @THResq: "NBCU Settles 'Harry Potter' Font Lawsuit" pjblack.me/wV4TG9 #lwb486 #lws008
• who still uses formspring?: "Formspring doubles down on mobile to fight unique user dip"pjblack.me/xRZtRo
• "Twitter Love Story To Hit The Silver Screen In Indonesia" pjblack.me/zCYXfU

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  "Evernote Bought Four Companies Last Year And (Almost) Nobody Knew About It" pjblack.me/zxRFi8
• "Megaupload takedown won't kill Cloud storage" says professor albert zomaya pjblack.me/AEzcsv
• "How Much Do We Spend On Dating?" pjblack.me/xDTy54
• "PM dragged away after being trapped by protesters" pjblack.me/zgjevS
• very interesting: "Reddit’s Got Another Super PAC, Devoted to Nebulous Political Interests of Reddit"pjblack.me/wSnPBD
• a great @storify page on australia day pjblack.me/zDn61r
• for disillusioned law students and graduates: "5 Unique Career Paths for Law School Grads"pjblack.me/wF3VOD
• this is alarming: "Australian-based data subject to Patriot Act: Lawyer" pjblack.me/xOzbRw
• another strange case from legally weird: "Man Claims to be Tax Exempt 'Because I Live in Heaven'"pjblack.me/zxndT1
• images in judicial opinions are fair use says judge posner: "Photo-happy judge adds Marley, ostrich to opinions" pjblack.me/zpSl8x
• from @thewrap: "Jay Leno Sued Over 'Tonight Show' Mitt Romney Crack" pjblack.me/wLBRti
• "Online media needs to lift its game" says vic alhadeff pjblack.me/xYZYQQ

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Milwaukee Public Library takes on Facebook and Twitter

The Milwaukee Public Library challenges residents to take a step back from social media and a step forward towards good old fashion reading with a clever new ad campaign.

via holykaw.alltop.com

Daily Twitter Links

These are some of the things I've been tweeting about today:

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  have you ever wondered what penguin tastes like?: "A Different Kind of Dinner Bell in the Antarctic"pjblack.me/ArenoZ
• timeline is coming: "Facebook forcing Timeline on users 'over the next few weeks'" pjblack.me/yLEG35
• from @AntonyGreenABC: "2012 Queensland Election Site Now Live" pjblack.me/wCVEFt
• you've got to love @AlbertBrooks on twitter; "Albert Brooks Responds to Oscar Snub: 'I Got Robbed!'" pjblack.me/y5jWQc
• i do love vimeo: "Vimeo Gets Its First Facelift Since 2007" pjblack.me/A1yFCh
• from @GOOD: "The Upside of Citizens United: A Wake-Up Call That Our Elections Are For Sale"pjblack.me/xBQ2aK
• how silly: "Newt Threatens to Skip Debates If Crowd Can't Cheer" pjblack.me/A6ofDc
• analysis of the #sotu from @jdickerson: "The Swing States of Our Union Are Strong" pjblack.me/wBabeP
• the happiest place on earth is about to get a little more hairy: "Disney Look: Disneyland Lifts Ban on Beards" pjblack.me/AxdmLC
• this is a very different learning environment: "Is Sweden's Classroom-Free School the Future of Learning?"pjblack.me/zBy8yh
• from the @NewYorker: "The Caging of America: Mass Incarceration and Criminal Justice in America"pjblack.me/yOYqEZ

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  from @salon: "When gay is a choice" pjblack.me/wx3IFH
• the grindr hacker may escape prosecution as no police complaint has been filed: "Mr Nasty gets away with Grindr hack" pjblack.me/w9IVVk
• "Why Newt Gingrich needs noisy crowds" pjblack.me/yDFBjt
• more than any other news story: "Young Adults Were Fixated On Fight Over Anti-Piracy Legislation, Pew Says" pjblack.me/A1pJlW
• official media statement from @TheQldPremier: "Premier Sets Election Date as Commission of Inquiry Extended" pjblack.me/wZHHzT #qldvotes
• i liked the silent audience: "Twitter Responds to NBC's GOP Debate: Where's the Audience?" pjblack.me/zoX1qw #FLDebate
• crime and misconduct commission to investigate the university of queensland pjblack.me/yihBoG
• more from the australian: "Michael Kelly: A 'normal' teen with Hawking and a Nobel in his sights" pjblack.me/y8iMQo
• from the australian's higher education supplement: "Commercial push for national press network challenged" pjblack.me/wP3AH3
• from the australian's higher education supplement: "Local campuses turn to global ranking system"pjblack.me/An40vy
• hear, hear!: "Enough, We Get It: Retweets Aren't Endorsements" pjblack.me/z7nkrt
• a really good @storify on "The 2012 State of the Union Address" pjblack.me/xYs4gK #sotu
• a reminder from @AntonyGreenABC: even if qld local govt elections are delayed, rolls still close 31 january pjblack.me/w0RGnT #qldvotes
• "State Government to change ‘gay panic’ defence" pjblack.me/y9vjPt #qldvotes #qldpol
• "Google’s Autonomous Vehicles Draw Skepticism at Legal Symposium" pjblack.me/xakPZ1

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  it probably is time: "The Chicago Sun-Times Decides Not To Endorse A Candidate For The First Time In 71 Years" pjblack.me/xwRlbl
• you can read the full text of barack obama's state of the union address here pjblack.me/ywqJsW #sotu
• why do british authors, unlike american novelists, never tackle sport?: "States of play" pjblack.me/wJrNqX
• "Famous Photogs Pose With Their Most Iconic Images" pjblack.me/yr1nZ1
• you can watch an enhanced @sotu address with charts, stats, and data here pjblack.me/w8UcHV
• from @tvwithoutpity: "Oscars 2012: Our Gut Reactions to the Academy Award Nominations" pjblack.me/xNplm7
• from dan savage: "Queer Opponents of Marriage Equality" pjblack.me/woQknX
• this is cool: "Soundcloud turns Instagram pics into retro slide shows" pjblack.me/AjLgGC
• "Early Facebook App Causes Is Being Reborn As A Polished Web Site For Good" pjblack.me/yrsak2
• queensland will go to the polls on march 24: "Bligh sets Qld election date" pjblack.me/ApPnyo #qldvotes#qldpol

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  from the @WSJLawBlog: "Study: Justices Flunk Attendance at the State of the Union" pjblack.me/zTFpzT
• from @salon: "The invention of the heterosexual: The history of straightness is much shorter than you'd think" pjblack.me/wZvngk
• from @dahlialithwick: "Alito vs. Scalia: The two conservative Supreme Court justices brawl over technology and privacy" pjblack.me/zWjLYh
• from @cracked: "The 6 Least Impressive Ways Anyone Ever Got Rich" pjblack.me/zyMStY
• here is a provocative idea; "Apple's E-textbooks should be free textbooks" pjblack.me/yXbDlJ
• "Evil, Greed, And Antitrust Aren’t Google’s Real Problems, Relevancy Is" says @parislemon at @PandoDailypjblack.me/wWLuj0
• all the #oscar nominations are online here pjblack.me/Ahiera
• "Daily Beast Contributors Weigh In on NBC Republican Debate in Tampa" pjblack.me/xGmJwR #FLDebate

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Anthony Albanese borrows from "The American President"

From the appearance of Anthony Albanese, at the National Press Club today followed by Michael Douglas starring in the film The President:

The transcripts:

Anthony Albanese, National Press Club, 25th Jan 2012:

“In Australia we have serious challenges to solve and we need serious people to solve them.  Unfortunately, Tony Abbott is not the least bit interested in fixing anything.

He is only interested in two things: making Australians afraid of it and telling them who’s to blame for it.”

President Andrew Shepherd, “The American President”:

“We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious men to solve them. And whatever your particular problem is, friend, I promise you, Bob Rumson is not the least bit interested in solving it.

He is interested in two things and two things only: Making you afraid of it and telling you who’s to blame for it.”

via blogs.crikey.com.au

It is hard to believe that Anthony Albanese's speech writer did not knowingly plagiarise from The American President. Written by legendary screenwriter, Aaron Sorkin, who also wrote The West Wing and The Social Network, you would have to assume that any political speech writer would be a fan of his work.

What is worse, however, is that I love that scene in The American President, and I will now no longer be able to watch it without thinking of Anthony Albanese, who most definitely is no Michael Douglas (in delivery and in looks).