Daily Blend: Saturday, November 27, 2010

Cheeky bastards, aren’t they?

• It begins: Homeland Security goes on website-killing spree without any court order, including shutting down a torrent search engine that wasn’t even against the law.
  (via @todayspolitics)

• Looks like Canada is going to be getting Sun TV News (ie. “Fox News North”) after all, despite a supposed defeat a few weeks back.
  (via @ebertchicago)

• Unsurprising: Fox Nation reposts an anti-Obama article from The Onion without mentioning it isn’t, you know, real.
  (via @todayspolitics)

• A Swedish appeals court shortens the prison terms for founders of The Pirate Bay while increasing damages to be paid.

• The Orwell Party. Sounds accurate to me.

• Seems like Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes) may have been on to something, back in 1995.
  (via @todayspolitics)

• Today’s mathematical formula: [parents] + [smart-phones] + [auto-correct gone awry] = [oh, dear].

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