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QOTD

Kottke on Lego: Man, when even the financial analysts are saying that you need more open-ended play toys, you’ve really gone off the rails. .
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Background/figure

New Yorker illustrator newyorkerizes the rat: The rat: Sandwiched between a parking reg, a for-rent sign, a scaffold, and a traffic jam of SUVs. Very New York. And, of course, it’s not the union rat — it’s the owner rat.
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TPB 1,2, 3, infinity; or, The Last Refuge of Scoundrels Is Deleuzianism

Rasmus Fleischer writes: “‘The Pirate Bay’ must be defined as an assemblage.” He prexplains: We are used to imagine The Pirate Bay as a legendary entity fighting an epic battle, on behalf of the millions of file-sharers. However, it is not exactly a legendary entity that is being sold. It is something different. So what [...]
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Tenured radical

Copyrights & Campaigns finds this curiosity in “the record label plaintiffs’ written discovery regarding Joel Tenenbaum’s fair use defense,” addressed to Berkman-founder Charlie Nesson: Admit that the image attached hereto as Exhibit 1, with the caption, ‘Destroy Capitalism, Support Piracy,’ is a true and correct copy of an image that was posted to the Internet [...]
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Pretty much

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