Day: March 8, 2007
You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You
Mambo Italiano
Arabic South Park
France Outlaws Filming Real-World Violence
Unless you are a “professional journalist”:
PARIS, France (AP) — A new law in France makes it a crime — punishable by up to five years in prison — for anyone who is not a professional journalist to film real-world violence and distribute the images on the Internet.
Critics call it a clumsy, near-totalitarian effort by authorities to battle “happy slapping” — the youth fad of filming violent acts — which most often they have provoked themselves — and spreading the images on the Web or between mobile phones.
The measure, tucked deep into a vast anti-crime law that took effect Wednesday, took media advocates by surprise with what they say is an undesirable side effect: trampling on freedom of expression.
Vegas in 2 Minutes
About 10 seconds of actual driving.
The Napkin Fiction Project
From Esquire:
We put 250 napkins in the mail to writers from all over the country — some with a half dozen books to their name, others just finishing their first. In return, we got nearly a hundred stories.