Posts Tagged: Freedom
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Everything Is Free Now

"If Hollywood had a bad summer at the Box Office, I think we can all agree that was because Green Lantern sucked, not that 'David After Dentist' was so good on YouTube that we all stayed home." —What happens when all books are free, as they are at Baltimore's The Book Thing?

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Welcome Back, Squeaky!

Lynette Fromme is getting out of prison in the next few days! (She produced an unloaded gun and pulled the trigger while pointing it in the vicinity of a U.S. President, before you were born.) We have so much to teach her about life here on the outside about the last 30 years. Man, she is going to crap her pants when she sees an iPhone. (Or, you know, a sandwich that isn't bologna.)

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Rumors Say At Least One Nobel Peace Prize Winner Might Be Freed Today

Everyone thinks that Aung San Suu Kyi will be released from her long-time confinement. But no one knows why they think that—and this in a country largely without a free Internet. One politico does claim that sources tell him she'll be freed. So this sort of communication happens natively to people in general, not just in over-teched societies. Also, Jeff Goldblum is still alive.

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'Wired': Money Wants To Be Free!

This seems to be the March cover of Wired. That coverline is: "MONEY wants to be FREE"! So listen. No, it doesn't. That's the last thing money wants. In fact, as money moves closer towards free, it loses value. Money hates to lose value. Money's life goals include: 1. Not losing value and 2. Gaining value. Anyway, maybe this is a joke mock-up cover they made for some free Wired party, where all the food was free, and no one had a salary, because their work was free. But if it does arrive in people's mailboxes (for free), they're gonna have some serious explaining to do, which they [...]