Municipal officials in Jerusalem do not want movie posters for “Sex In The City” displayed, according to the Jerusalem Post.
At first they asked to simply remove the word “sex” from the title, but that request was turned down.
A rep for “Sex In The City’s” Israeli distributor, Forum Films, said:
“We told them, the way you don’t remove the word “Coca” from “Coca-Cola” and just leave “Cola,” we can’t do it in this case…”
Categories: Movies · Television · religion
Tagged: Movies, religion, Television
YouTomb is a project by MIT Free Culture that tracks down videos taken down from and by YouTube for copyright infringement. The site tells you how long each clip had been up, and who asked it to be taken down.
For example, this video, a review of Cloverfield, was taken down due to a TOS violation after being up for 117 days.
According to their statistics page, the companies who ask for the most videos to be removed include Viacom, Warner Brothers, and World Wrestling Entertainment.
Categories: Internet · Television · technology · video · web 2.0 · youtube
Tagged: Internet, Tech, technology, web 2.0, youtube
Instructables explains how you can take all your used-up batteries and get big money for them — by paying attention to the international scrap market:
“The market goes up and down. Right now the dollar is low and China and India are buying scrap like crazy to sell it back to us as products. That drives up scrap values. Our military shooting bullets at villages all over the world doesn’t hurt the value of lead either.”
More at the link.
As for the author of the article, he had an ATM at the scrap center spit out $100 bills at him. Now that’s the type of eco-friendly thinking that actually pays off.
Categories: business · environment
Tagged: environment, recycle
A teenager participating in a peaceful protest outside a church of Scientology in England faces prosecution now for carrying a sign that had the word “Cult” on it.
The Guardian reports:
“The incident happened during a protest against the Church of Scientology on May 10. Demonstrators from the anti-Scientology group, Anonymous, who were outside the church’s £23m headquarters near St Paul’s cathedral, were banned by police from describing Scientology as a cult by police because it was “abusive and insulting”.”
The same article says that London police came under fire two years ago when it emerged that more than 20 officers received gifts from the Church of Scientology.
As for the prosecuted teenager, he is currently looking for legal advice.
Wacky Archives presents the world’s first “emo keyboard,” a suitably depressed bit of hardware that will give your computer setup the correct amount of gloom and doom. It makes me want to cut at my wrists with my keyfob.
Categories: technology · weird
Tagged: emo, technology, weird
