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Monthly Archives: July 2009

The Sunday Video: The Hellstrom Chronicle

Sunday, July 12, 2009

The Hellstrom Chronicle, 1979. “The Earth was created not with the gentle caress of love, but with the brutal violence of rape.” – Nils Hellstrom, M.S., Ph.D. Produced in 1979 by Walon Green for the Entomology department of Florida Atlantic University, The Hellstrom Chronicle stands alone as the most unnerving, creatively directed and frankly brilliant [...]

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The Pirate Bay – A legacy of exasperating morality

Monday, July 6, 2009

Detail from a congratulatory diploma given by The Pirate Bay to the King of Sweden. Technology news has been dominated these past few weeks by coverage of various sagas involving The Pirate Bay [.org], a file-sharing website that was founded in 2003 by the Swedish file-sharing advocacy group Piratbyrån, but which has been run independently [...]

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The Sunday Video: The Max Headroom Broadcast Signal Intrusion Incident

Sunday, July 5, 2009

This weeks Sunday Video is the longest of two acts of video piracy featuring someone in a Max Headroom mask that briefly violated TV networks in Chicago, Illinois, on the evening of November 22nd, 1987. Known as “The Max Headroom Broadcast Signal Intrusion Incident” for obvious reasons, the illegal communications successfully interrupted two television stations [...]

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