Buffistas

It's like, in the middle of all this, I'm paranoid that you'll think I don't like poetry.

Buffy ,'Empty Places'

Natter 64: Yes, we still need you

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.

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Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 06, 2009 8:15:42 am PDT #12486 of 30001

"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Awesome. I don't know anything about anything in Boston, so it will all be an adventure.

I'll recommend trying Little Steve's Pizzeria on Boylston next to Hennepin. It's been a cheap and tasty mainstay for me on all my visits to the youth hostel around the corner.

Jesse - Oct 06, 2009 8:28:48 am PDT #12487 of 30001

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Yay for new job, quester!!

Go to Legal! Have the crab cake!

Why would I have a crab cake in New England? I go to Maryland for that!

I'll recommend trying Little Steve's Pizzeria on Boylston next to Hennepin.

I will check it out!

!!!

Amy - Oct 06, 2009 8:29:48 am PDT #12488 of 30001

Because books.

Yay quester!

And yay Jesse for all your news!

I'm feeling mostly human again. God bless codeine and antibiotics.

Glamcookie - Oct 06, 2009 8:31:33 am PDT #12489 of 30001

I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

I love Boston.

Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 06, 2009 8:38:53 am PDT #12490 of 30001

"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Also, for Thai I'd recommend Thai Basil on Newbury St. Dunno how it stacks up against Chili Duck, but I was very happy with the food there.

Calli - Oct 06, 2009 8:43:51 am PDT #12491 of 30001

I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Have you guys seen PhotoSketch? [link]

The video's pretty amazing.

tommyrot - Oct 06, 2009 9:07:45 am PDT #12492 of 30001

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Have you guys seen PhotoSketch? [link]

Yeah, I posted about it in Tech.

ION, I had no idea jerk pork was so nummy....

aurelia - Oct 06, 2009 9:21:26 am PDT #12493 of 30001

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

DNA LEDs [link]

tommyrot - Oct 06, 2009 9:29:31 am PDT #12494 of 30001

Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

The criticism that Ralph Lauren doesn't want you to see!

The picture is freaky. And though IANAL, it seems like fair use to me....

Last month, Xeni blogged about the photoshop disaster that is this Ralph Lauren advertisement, in which a model's proportions appear to have been altered to give her an impossibly skinny body ("Dude, her head's bigger than her pelvis"). Naturally, Xeni reproduced the ad in question. This is classic fair use: a reproduction "for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting," etc.

However, Ralph Lauren's marketing arm and its law firm don't see it that way. According to them, this is an "infringing image," and they thoughtfully took the time to send a DMCA takedown notice to our awesome ISP, Canada's Priority Colo. One of the things that makes Priority Colo so awesome is that they don't automatically act on DMCA takedowns. Instead, they pass them on to us and we talk about whether they pass the giggle-test.

This one doesn't.

So, instead of responding to their legal threat by suppressing our criticism of their marketing images, we're gonna mock them. Hence this post.

As Wendy Seltzer from the Chilling Effects project said, "Sounds like a pretty solid fair use case to me. If criticism diminishes its effectiveness, that's different from the market substitution copyright protects against. And I've rarely seen a thinner DMCA form-letter."

So, to Ralph Lauren, GreenbergTraurig, and PRL Holdings, Inc: sue and be damned. Copyright law doesn't give you the right to threaten your critics for pointing out the problems with your offerings. You should know better.

Calli - Oct 06, 2009 9:31:43 am PDT #12495 of 30001

I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I guess Ralph Lauren et al didn't have any handy tiger cages to jump into. Seriously, who sends a DMCA takedown notice to BoingBoing?

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