Open Mic News

July 21, 2008

R4nger5 Radio Episode 35

Filed under: r4nger5 — admin @ 12:03 pm
 
icon for podpress  R4nger5 Radio Episode 35 [119:22m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (6)

(Admin note: Archiving has begun again. Associated text is taken verbatim from the R4nger5 LJ. Using the 64Kb recoded version from Archive.org to ease downloads.)
EDIT: Now using a recoded 32K version, as the inital file was a partial and the full one was huge.

NEWS

Guardian ColumnisT backs our POV on CCTV! Thanks Harlequin!
Link : http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jun/28/civilliberties.privacy

Viacom Suing you Tube and Google for copyright infringement - Thanks again, Harlequin!
Newspaper argues impeachment of Bush is a waste of time! Thanks Macavity!
Get the full article here: http://www.salem-news.com/articles/june162008/exler_are.php

And in related news, Also from Macavity :

San Luis Obispo political activist Sandra Marshall thinks President Bush should be impeached and is upset with Congress and her representative, Lois Capps, for not getting the job done.
Link : http://www.sanluisobispo.com/183/story/373634.html

Additional links :
http://www.progressive.org/mag_wx0613b08
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/obamas-florida-co-chairman-backs-bush-impeachment-2008-06-12.html

Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched any video on YouTube, a US court has ruled. The ruling comes as part of Google’s legal battle with Viacom over allegations of copyright infringement.
Link : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7488009.stm

Shneelock’s News regarding the EU’s need to crack down on evil interwebs users:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/28/washington/28privacy.html?partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all

Also, there’s apparently plans to crack down on blogs and other
user-generated content:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/public/story_page/058-31021-161-06-24-909-20080605STO30955-2008-09-06-2008/default_en.htm

LONDON (Reuters) - A student who scribbled an expletive on an English language exam paper was awarded 7.5 percent for accurate spelling and effective communication, The Times newspaper reported on Monday.
(Advertisement) Thanks APIPA!
Link: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080630/tuk-uk-britain-exam-fa6b408.html

Macdonlds sued over Devo Look alike! Thanks Harlequin!
Link : http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/29/devo-sues-mcdonalds.html

Lloyds-TSB has been criticised for sending debit cards to children as young as 11 so they can buy goods online without parents knowing. Thanks APIPA!
Link: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/skynews/20080630/tbs-bank-slated-for-giving-kids-visa-car-327c223.html

FEEDBACK
–Xenovalent, Psyranger,Harlequin and Raindog951

HALFTIME MUSIC
Track 1-
Track 2 -
Track 3-

DISCUSSION
LINKS
www.rantmedia.ca - the godfathers of independent media!
www.wogrant.com - guys like us trying to get a bit of real information out there to you!
www.wognetwork.com - a new resource for the independently minded - go and register and add something to this new collective effort!
www.empowerthyself.com - organisational help and practical advice for getting your own projects of the ground - great work, Alex!
www.kevinisageek.org - Great guys from the caledonias who mirror a lot of cool stuff for the people out there - keep up the great work, Kevin!
www.r4nger5.tk - our site!
www.r4nger5blog.tk - our blog!
http://aioe.org/ - A news reader to allow EVERYONE to get hold of usenet news groups, whatever their ISP - Nice one, guys - Thanks to Harlequin!
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/ - an archive on the history of anarchy -Thanks to Harlequin!

RECCOMEDIA

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3338076.ece - An article on the Times Online about how to disconnect from the ever-tightening noose of monitoring and surveillance in today’s Britain. Thanks to Harlequin!

www.adbusters.org - lots of cool videos - not a bad magazine, either!

OUTTRO MUSIC
Track 1-
Track 2-
Track 3-

2 Rant -
RED LINE

July 9, 2008

Picking up the pieces

Filed under: site news — admin @ 1:27 am

Okay, so I’m not quite sure what’s going to be happening to the OMN site, but for the moment the database is back together and WordPress is all up to date. The archive is re-uploading. So what’s been is here for you to go through.
Still not sure why the custom theme we had stopped working. That was before the downtime, and nothing’s changed from the original scripts, so I guess it must be an incompatibility with newer WP builds than it was made on.

Powered by WordPress