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Coalition Mounts Protest Against Logic Puzzles.

Our users and many others in the space have raised plenty of good questions in the wake of the House of Representatives' deployment of "logic puzzles" available to help members avoid ~~spam~~ constituent e-mail.

Today, a diverse left-right-center coalition of organizations formally responded with a letter sent to all House of Representatives offices. You can get more involved in that coalition, or send an individual message to your rep (through a webform, natch) at www.dontblockmyvoice.org.

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05:00 PM Jun 19, 2006 - 0 comments permalink

Deliverability

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04:30 PM Jun 19, 2006 - 0 comments permalink

Extortr: Finally, Web 2.0 Technology You Can Actually Use

Via Mashable: "the 'most technologically advanced extortion service in the world'. Simply upload a scandalous photo or video, set a price and use Extortr to send an anonymous threat by email. If your victim doesn't pay, the upload goes public. The service takes a 10% cut of all transactions, with a $5 minimum."

From the FAQ:

Is this legal?: Extortr is hosted in Kgryjstan, where enterprising, forward-thrusting Web 2.0 businesses such as ours are welcomed with open arms.

(Yes, it's a joke.)

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11:30 AM Jun 19, 2006 - 0 comments permalink

Click Here to Bean George Will

Via Deadspin (and futbol lovers may want to keep coming back for its daily World Cup liveblogs):

An independent minor league baseball team, the Schaumberg Flyers, has announced plans to turn over managerial decisions to fans over the Internet for the second half of its current season.

If baseball -- and I can't say I'm at all a fan -- seems to struggle to find its bearings as entertainment spectacle in an era of short attention spans and rivals with xbox-friendly violence, its punctuated deliberation, limited strategic options and orientation around individual play actually make it kind of perfect for this sort of thing.

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05:30 PM Jun 16, 2006 - 0 comments permalink

Remains of the Day: SaveTheInternet Rebuts Post's Net Neutrality Editorial

The Post editorialized today against net neutrality, and SaveTheInternet promptly responded so that the likes of me don't have to. But since I came all this way, let me just add one tangential point: the Post editorial, like the telco talking points, makes predictable recourse to the facile libertarian schtick that's been such a reliable stalking horse of regress these many years: "the government ... should not burden the Internet with preemptive legislation."

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08:00 PM Jun 12, 2006 - 0 comments permalink

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