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Days after CEO Thorsten Heins promised that Research In Motion was not “in a death spiral,” it lost a patent litigation case filed by Mformation, maker of remote wireless management software. The jury awarded Mformation $147.2m. The verdict on Friday in a San Francisco federal court comes at a bad time for RIM, whose stock

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RIM hit with $147.2 million patent verdict

The Boston Globe reported that presidential candidate Mitt Romney still controlled Bain Capital for years after he claimed to have left in 1999—a period marked by layoffs and bankruptcies. An Obama campaign official suggested that he committed a felony by claiming otherwise on official forms. The Globe’s Callum Borchers follows up: “Romney’s campaign asked for

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Romney demands apology over Bain claims

How much comfort and ease does a hunter need? In St. Louis Country forest, shooters are not only building “Deer Stands” larger than some houses, but cutting down swathes of forest to make it easier to nail their targets. John Myers writes: “We’re getting over-built. We’re seeing mansions out there — basically hunting shacks on

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Deer-hunting "mansions" on public land

Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority has upheld complaints leveled against a men’s rights group’s controversial ad campaign. Fathers4Justice’s ad depicted a crying baby, his body emblazoned with perjoratives such as “pig” and “rapist”, with text attacking Mumsnet, a popular online hangout for mothers of young children. According to Fathers4Justice, Mumsnet presided over an anti-male hate campaign

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Nasty men’s rights ad banned

The European Union’s Court of Justice ruled today that software licenses may be resold. By its judgment delivered today, the Court explains that the principle of exhaustion of the distribution right applies not only where the copyright holder markets copies of his software on a material medium (CD-ROM or DVD) but also where he distributes

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EU: software licenses may be sold by consumers

AOL is the latest advertiser to bail on radio host Rush Limbaugh following his description of activist Sandra Fluke as as a “slut” and “prostitute”. Reuters’ Anthony De Rosa cites an AOL source as saying it’s “working on” removing Rush-linked promotions from the site. It’s strange to think of website so vast and operationally complicated

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AOL quits Rush, "working on" removing ads

Jeff Roberts at PaidContent claims that TechCrunch’s traffic is plummeting. TechCrunch, the long-time darling of the digerati, is smashed to bits and all of AOL’s horses and men will be hard-pressed to put it together again. The site has lost almost every one of its top writers and traffic has dropped sharply, dropping by 35

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TechCrunch not dead yet

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Trompe l’oil

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Photojojo’s iPhone Rangefinder clips onto your iPhone, making it look like an iPhone inside a case that looks like a bit like a rangefinder. It’s compatible with Photojojo’s magnetic fisheye, wide-angle/macro and tele lenses: you can get it with a full set for $99. [via This Isn't Happiness]

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Rangefinder iPhone case

A charming advertisement for a college down under, by Henry and Aaron. Stay to the end. Send the kids out the room. [via Gizmodo]

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Education is a snap at the Central Institute of Technology in Australia

You’d think that the proponents of SOPA[1] would give up that legislative dead parrot’s ghost. But they’re still doing the rounds on radio and in print, claiming that millions of Americans were ‘duped’ into opposing their harmless little internet censorship law. The fresh (!) talking points go like this: Wikipedia, Reddit, Boing Boing and others

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Oh my God, entertainment industry people are still pitching for SOPA

Britain’s Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA) seizes domains in similar fashion to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But whereas American authorities’ placeholders are all businesslike neoclassicism, Britain’s look like something a phisher would email to scare you into giving up your PayPal password. The daftest part?

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Britain’s threatening and clueless domain takedown message

Bill Keller, former executive editor of The New York Times, rails against those who mock him. The newspaper published someone else’s column without permission while he was busy insisting that copyright infringement is theft, and has been subjected to much ridicule as a result. The law should not go after minor transgressions. Moreover, I specifically

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Irony Vigilante Bill Keller: NYT copyright infringement was "illustrative uploading"

Conservative legislators in India resigned Wednesday after being caught enjoying mobile phone smut during a session of parliament. Karnata state’s Minister for Cooperation Laxman Savadi and Womens’ and Childrens’ Development Minister C.C. Patil were broadcast on TV sharing the porn clip, according to Reuters’ Nila Bhalla.

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Porn in parliament ends ministers’ careers

British advertising regulators have dismissed a complaint against an ad that portrayed terrier-headed playboy “Trevor Mountleg” and sexual antics in the presence of animals. The commercial, for Electronic Arts’ Sims 3 Pets, has the hybrid creature describing what players can get up to in the game. “Are you an animal person?” he says, waving a

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Saucy dog head ad complaint dismissed

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Never change the oil in Michael Bay’s car

Two U.K. tourists landing in L.A. were detained and deported because of tweets joking about “diggin’ up” Marilyn Monroe and “destroying” America.

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Tourists deported from U.S. for Twitter jokes

A modern electronica duo can only dream of being as good as Future World Orchestra. [via Robert Popper]

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Future World Orchestra: Desire (1982)

Brian Lam on finding happiness after absorbing too much Internet as a too-busy website editor. With my three extra hours a day, I will often go to the beach. Cook a healthy meal. Do a bunch of exercise. Have a drink with friends.

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Three extra hours a day

The New York Times on the human cost of industrial accidents at Apple’s foreign suppliers: Troubling, the groups say, is some suppliers’ disregard for workers’ health. Two years ago, 137 workers at an Apple supplier in eastern China were injured after they were ordered to use a poisonous chemical to clean iPhone screens. Within seven

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The human cost of technology

BB reader Ipo sends in an illustration of future U.S. president and moon lord Newt Gingrich, based on this photo by Reuters’ Eric Thayers.

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That’s no moon. It’s Newt Gingrich

Among others, the BBC interviewed two snipers. Both have killed many people, but they are very different men. One affirms the humanity of his targets, and worries at how ideology sends them into battle. One considers them subhuman, and worries about himself

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The Mind of a Sniper

In this year’s Reporters Without Borders international press freedom index, the U.S. slumped to 47th place, a fall of 27 places, largely due to arrests of journalists covering protests. The full report is available in PDF format. [RSF]

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US slumps in press freedom rankings

Fadades is also available at the pyramids, at the park, and at the the municipal cemetery.

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French Metal