Oh wow, I am just speechless with how wonderful this is. Not only is it BEN AFFLECK, someone who we’ve wanted represented here at Celebrities Eating for far too long, but it’s BEN AFFLECK EATING A FUCKING BIG MAC. High five, internet. High five.
Yes, it’s just what you think it is, although perhaps allowing Nicole Richie more webspace than you’d have thought, from the look of her. Still, it’s a site about celebrities eating, not celebrities keeping food down. via Gawker.
so blogging will be a little erratic. That’s okay, though: I know that if you’re a reader of this blog you’re very into the erratic arts.
FYI you know how the tarmac on runways and taxiways has those rubber tire marks, in big swooping circles and straight lines and some, heart-stopping times, a series of juddering dark grey dots, fading off into the distance? Well there is one spot at YVR where some fellow who has too much time on his hands and a job that pays by the hour has taken it upon himself to apply the creative impulse to tire marks.
He’s made a happy face.
Yep, the first rule of Newfie Fight Club is, you don’t post the Newfie Fight Club on the Internet, duh. But, being Newfies, they did. And got Farked!
A Dozen Young People Arrested
September 25, 2006Police are investigating an incident in Corner Brook on the weekend in which about 150 young people had gathered near the Captain Cook Monument. RNC say a number of the youths were operating and participating in a web site promoting a local “Fight Club.” People could log on to the website and place their name on a roster for upcoming fights. Spectators would then be charged a fee to watch the fight.
If your blog has been scraped by Bitacle, they suggest posting this. Looks like a good idea to me:
Dear reader,
Please look carefully at the web address in the URL field of your browser. It should read ‘https://raincoaster.wordpress.com‘. In case you see a web address containing the word ‘bitacle’ or ‘bitacle.org’, you’re not looking at the original page on which this text was posted. If this is the case, the text you are reading right now might be incorrect or out of date. After I place a post on my weblog, I always try to keep published information up to date, or incorporate additional information, which I receive from readers. You will never find this information on bitacle.org.
Bitacle.org copies the content of weblogs without permission of the author, the holder of copyrights or the licensee. By visiting bitacle.org, you create income for the people who run bitacle.org, at the expense of me and other owners of a weblog, without permission and often without respecting copyrights and/or terms of use as in a license. So please, next time you want to view my posts, do so by using the web address of my weblog, which is ‘https://raincoaster.wordpress.com‘. Please make a bookmark of my weblog’s address, if you would like to visit it again.
Thank you!
It normally takes a helluva lot to jolt me out of my “information wants to be shared” communal anarchist complacency (and, if communal anarchists haven’t achieved complacency, who can be said to have done so?) but this may just be enough.
TimeThief normally objects to blogs that republish the entire posts of other blogs, but I think in this case she’ll give me a bye.
Silly me, live and learn.
We’ll just work it out in a creamed corn wrestling smackdown live onstage at Limerick Junction for charity. In any case, here’s her post on the subject.
And here is an anti-Bitacle blog that’s got pretty comprehensive coverage of the issue, from pro and anti sides.
Essentially, Bitacle is a for-profit business that steals the contents of blogs from all around the world and publishes it on its own website, on which it sells advertising. In addition, it republishes this information under a “Creative Commons” license, which essentially gives the readerthe right to republish it at will under certain conditions, including the condition they not be making any money from it. Unlike Bitacle. Now, CC licenses are great things allrighty, but Bitacle doesn’t have your permission to relicense them in the first place, so absolutely none of the CC licenses they offer on material they publish are binding.
In other words, all rights belong to the bloggers and Bitacle is breaking the law. As well, its CC claim is encouraging other people to break the law, by pretending to them that it’s legal. It’s not.
If you’ve got a blog, check your RSS feed stats or your IPs and look for Bitacle. They can be IP banned; they may well change their IP (their ISP has been notified, as has Google, whose ads they are running) but until they do, it’s a good idea to starve them.
Pass the word around; since WordPress has put in some “measures” against them, they’ll be all over Blogger, Blogspot, etc.
