My wedding anniversary in Melbourne last night (the 2nd). Leaf water fountain wall art, and @amandapalmer.
Right now Congress is considering two bills—the Protect IP Act, and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)—that would be laughable if they weren’t in fact real. Honestly, if a friend wrote these into a piece of fiction about government oversight gone amok, I’d have to tell them that they were too one-dimensional, too obviously anticonstitutional.
Make no mistake: These bills aren’t simply unconstitutional, they are anticonstitutional. They would allow for the wholesale elimination of entire websites, domain names, and chunks of the DNS (the underlying structure of the whole Internet), based on nothing more than the “good faith” assertion by a single party that the website is infringing on a copyright of the complainant. The accused doesn’t even have to be aware that the complaint has been made.
This is Amanda Palmer and Brian Viglione of The Dresden Dolls doing an AMAZING IMPROMPTU PERFORMANCE of “Map of Tasmania”. This was from a recent ninja gig they did in Mexico where they rocked so hard they caused a damn earthquake! The video was originally posted on YouTube by yorudoll.
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“In My Mind” - Amanda Palmer
This song speaks to me in so many ways. I absolutely adore it.
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Amanda Palmer’s parody of Rebecca Black’s famous hit, Friday. Amanda has a little twist to her version though. The audio is from an AFP performance on YouTube. Hope you like!
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