Interview With Nina Paley, at QuestionCopyright.org

I just spent weeks learning more than I ever wanted to know about the sorry state of video editing on Linux, but the result is worth it: It's an in-depth interview with animator and cartoonist Nina Paley, whose award-winning, feature-length film Sita Sings The Blues cannot be distributed because of copyright restrictions. She built the film around episodes from the Indian epic the Ramayana and songs recorded by torch singer Annette Hanshaw in the 1920s. The recordings are no longer in copyright jail, and the Ramayana never was, but the compositions are. Nina Paley is therefore expected to pay tens...
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The Briefing.

Apparently Barack Obama has now gotten his first intelligence briefing. Hearing that made me think of one of my favorite

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Endorsement.

Rants.org endorses Barack Fitzgerald Obama for President of the United States. U.S. readers, please vote tomorrow.

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Now that’s a pro!

Watching Joe Biden handle being interviewed by this shameless propagandist is a particular kind of pleasure. It’s sort of like

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Unpacking.

I was reunited with my piano today: Incredibly, it’s still in tune, give or take few cents, despite having spent

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