Month July 2010

Scaredy cat cop afraid of big bad anarchists

A Washington DC police officer who was caught on video last winter brandishing his gun at a snowball fight has blamed anarchist panic for his actions. Maybe someone that confused and irrational has no business being a police officer?

Tuli Kupferberg. 1923-2010

John Perry Barlow on Twitter. Alas, Tuli Kupferberg (1923–2010), NYC’s 1st Hippie, Fug, and co-author of “1001 Ways to Beat the Draft!” bit.ly/BeatDraft” Tuli Kupferberg; poet, beat, hippie, co-founder of the Fugs, and much more passed today after a series…

Consumer Reports can’t recommend iPhone 4

The signal / antenna problem is the reason. They say the problem is not AT&T or faulty signal bars. It the placement of the iPhone 4 antenna. They tested it under laboratory conditions and with multiple iPhones and other phones.…