Links 3-3-11: Four day Gmail outage over, WordPress DDoS-ed, Westboro wins Supreme Court case
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Top of the Interwebs:
The internet (and the country) continue to react to the Supreme Court’s ruling that the extremest church’s hurtful speech is still protected under the first amendment.
HuffPost’s Westboro Baptist Church big page. Notable: Sarah Palin is against free speech (via tweet), I thought she was a constitutionalist?
NPR has the low-down on the legalese.
In case you are wondering my opinion? Westboro Baptist Church says horrible things that they shouldn’t say. They are nasty and despicable. However, shouldn’t is not the same thing as can’t. Sometimes we have to let the wackos through because the alternative is even worse.
Self-aggrandizement:
Brainstorming ways that story arcs can find use beyond episodic TV or graphic novels. Click through and leave a comment if I missed anything.
Worth looking at today:
40,000 users went without access to their Gmail accounts for the last 4 days. As a result of the outage, attention has once again been brought on Google, its non-responsiveness to users and its general opacity.
In other ‘host it yourself’ news, WordPress.com was hit with a huge Distributed Denial of Service attack which caused slowdowns on the site and for all their users’ blogs.
Steven Spielberg has bought the rights to the story of the WikiLeaks sage, reports the Guardian. Will it be better than The Social Network? Anyway, the leading possibilities to play Julian Assange are Macaulay Culkin, Orlando Bloom and an actress named Tilda Swinton. When did Macaulay Culkin get to be 30?!
After 40 years, Harvard will allow the ROTC to return to the university’s campus.
BlackBerry Messenger app may be coming to Apple and Android devices.
TechCrunch has a post on ‘The Age of Relevance,’ which pits the interest graph and the social graph against the Information Discovery Matrix to try and discover where things are going.
In completely disgusting news: 72% of Grocery Carts have fecal matter on them.
Worth watching today:
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