Is that the most weird title in the history of blogging, or what?
But it’s true: Darth Vader tried to take part in a procession of Icelandic Lutherans in that island country’s capital of Reykjavík. Here’s the video…
For Christmas I got Lisa a Nintendo Wii. Had to camp out all night during cold rain in front of a GameStop store the week before to get it (this was when they had the vouchers thing going, and I wound up getting a Wii for Lisa and a Wii voucher for my sister, who got hers a little over a week after Christmas … am I a great husband/brother or what? 🙂
Along with the Wii I bought a card worth 2000 Wii Points, to spend on extra games or whatever through Nintendo’s online store for the Wii. And until now we hadn’t used it at all (guess we’ve been having too much fun with everything else on the Wii). So yesterday I loaded up the points and “went shopping”, and even though it cost 500 points I thought it would be neat to have the Internet Channel installed. ...
Two weeks after my own situation with Viacom was resolved (let us hope, and you can read much more about it here), now comes word that another major corporation is taking a person’s material without permission and using it commercially. But this time it’s much worse than anything I went through with my own digital copyright battle.
16-year old Alison Chang from Texas was attending a Christian camp in Australia. A camp counselor took her picture and uploaded it to photo-sharing site Flickr. Well, Virgin Mobile found that picture and without asking anyone’s permission – including Miss Chang’s – they used it in a major (and very expensive) advertising campaign. Suddenly Chang’s picture was all over the place with the caption “Dump your pen friend” and the words “Virgin to virgin”. Here’s the story at The Register and here is a photo of Virgin’s vulgar use of Chang’s ...