From the monthly archives:

June 2009

Bringing down NRM’s for LULZ

June 28, 2009

An interesting paper was presented at the recent CESNUR conference in Salt Lake City on anti-Scientology group Anonymous, and their activities on 4chan. It’s not the most polished paper I’ve ever read and it provides a glossary that explains a number of terms not referenced in the paper, but it’s definitely worth reading. I particularly [...]

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Go to Hell. Do not pass Florence. Do not collect a free tour by Virgil.

June 25, 2009

More on the Dante’s Inferno videogame.
The recent E3 exposition revealed more details of EA’s imagining of Hell (I would have picked ‘unionised labour’): this time Limbo and, according to different accounts, Lust or “Anger”. After going on about using the original names for each circle, what was wrong with good old ‘Wrath’?.
We also now know [...]

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Towards a kosher internet

June 16, 2009

Orthodox Jews can now click their mouses with relief as new web portal Koogle will filter out taboo sites. The site’s name is not only an amalgamation of kosher and Google, but also the Jewish dessert kugel. The portal features Jewish news and a search engine that automatically filters out objectionable material, such as ‘immodestly [...]

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Facebook says ‘No’ to hate

June 14, 2009

Facebook has disabled the ‘I Hate Muslims in Oz’ group from their site. This was due to its “explicit statement of hate”, rather than any sense of religious vilification. Holocaust denial groups have also been removed in the past, but only when similarly related to a message of hate.
apud AFP ‘Facebook shuts down Aussie Muslim [...]

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Wikipedia is a battlefield

June 1, 2009

Not “love”, as certain pundits would have you believe. You heard it here first.
So Wikipedia has banned a slew of IP’s orginating from the Church of Scientology, as well as bunch of Wikipedia editors who got involved. I wonder if they had to turn the lights on and off to break it up, and then [...]

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