Saturday, August 11, 2007

Pearl Jam Censored

From Arstechnica:

The incident happened during a Lollapalooza webcast over at AT&T's "Blue Room" media showcase. Pearl Jam's performance of their big 90's hit "Daughter" morphed into the melody from Pink Floyd's "The Wall," and Eddie Vedder served up a pair of anti-Bush lyrics to the tune. "George Bush, leave this world alone," he sang. "George Bush, find yourself another home."

Fans at the event got to hear the words in all their glory, but in the webcast, the lines were censored—AT&T made the decision to silence them, apparently believing that they would prove offensive to listeners. When Pearl Jam found out about the censorship, the band posted a strongly-worded message on its web site.

 

Frightening that in this day and age, big corporations are still trying to censor, even these somewhat innocent political messages.



Monday, August 06, 2007

KDE 4.0


Ars Technica has a very nice overview of the upcoming KDE 4.0. KDE is a windows manager for Linux, in case you stumbled on this page and have no clue what it is ;).

KDE.org announcement