I love Boston.
Giles: Helping out with the dishes makes me feel useful. Dawn: Wanna clean out the garage with us
Saturday? You could feel indispensable.
'Dirty Girls'
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.
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
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
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?
billytea - Oct 06, 2009 11:19:45 am PDT #12496 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
According to Tara Brach (American Buddhist teacher/speaker), the Chinese characters for "busy" actually mean something like "heart-killing."
This is in fact correct.
aurelia - Oct 06, 2009 12:35:40 pm PDT #12497 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I am pinned down by a cat. Rosie has a odd, but normally quiet purr. Right now she sounds like she's gargling.
Kathy A - Oct 06, 2009 1:06:49 pm PDT #12498 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Hee!! I love cats' weird noises. Amarna was snoring in my arms last night, a very distinct nasal snore. Other than that, she meows.
I've got to get my mp3 player's microphone figured out so I can record how she sounds when she jumps on top of me and stands with her back paws on my stomach and her front paws on alternating shoulders while she paces from side to sidea and meows at the top of her lungs for a minute or so until she curls up on my chest for skritches. I tend to egg her on.