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• Aug 11, 2009 @ 07:40pm

  longest running Broadway play

  on Would The Beggars' Opera Be Possible Today?

  you know we might never have heard Andrew Lloyd Weber's "The Phantom of the Opera" if he hadn't borrowed that melody from Pink Floyd's "Echoes"
  
  but isn't taking a melody and incorporating it into a larger work with a stage production, acting and i'm sure some amount of original musical input make it a transformative use of the music?
  
  sounds like fair use to me, we're talking melody lines not entire songs getting ripped right?

• Aug 10, 2009 @ 10:12pm

  smacks of a hoax

  on Cyberattack That Brought Down Twitter & Facebook Only Highlighted The Guy It Hoped To Silence

  this story almost seems fake. this article was written by the NY times are we sure that they didn't just regurgitate the first hot lead that was whispered in their ear?
  
  I just think this sounds like that kid who planted false info on Wikipedia about some dead French guy and nobody stopped to check any facts about it before writing his obituary.

• Jul 31, 2009 @ 12:14am

  Re: my first look at the cards.

  on How You Feel About Rorschach Tests On Wikipedia Says A Lot About You

  1. mask. angel. birds.
  
  2. clown. 2 bears.
  
  3. 2 people carrying a pedestal
  
  4. mountain. wizard with shadow above him.
  
  5. something is in flight. or pinned to the wall of a display case.
  
  6. bear skin rug. great statue.
  
  7. two girls looking at each other. one girl looking at her reflection.
  
  8. A fire. two animals standing over a fire next to water
  
  9. moose and a deer
  
  10. underwater scene. seahorses. blue crab. red sea eels

• Jul 31, 2009 @ 12:12am

  my first look at the cards.

  on How You Feel About Rorschach Tests On Wikipedia Says A Lot About You