Popcorn time! ASCAP Makes Outlandish Copyright Claims on Cell Phone Ringtones | Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Awesome. :: v a n . d e n . b r a n d e ::.

Sen Coburn happily blocked funding for the Metro last year. If the #metrocrash turns out to be a maintenance issue, then he will be held accountable.Senator Happy to Block Metro Funding – wtop.com.

Favre is a Viking? I thought this was already a no-go… ProFootballTalk.com – Favre Already Under Contract With Vikings?.

About time carpetbag bloggers get smacked down for not disclosing their freebies well enough. The Associated Press: FTC plans to monitor blogs for claims, payments.

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So what will happen next? Both sides have learnt the lessons of the fall of the Shah. In 1978 elements of the Shah's army lost their composure and fired on demonstrating crowds, causing a chain reaction of violence that led to the end of the Pahlavi dynasty. Yesterday I was told by a friend that the security forces withdrew when up to 100,000 protesters gathered in central Tehran: the Government is not ready to turn the Revolutionary Guards on the people. The demonstrators too are showing restraint: Iran is not like Gaza or the West Bank where people feel they have nothing to lose and are willing to accept martyrdom.

via How Mir Hossein Mousavi trapped the Supreme Leader | Shahram Kholdi – Times Online .

TG Daily (c) – Ballmer announces 2010 Xbox 360 at The Executive Club Chicago.

Is this even legal?! City in Montana requires job applicants to hand over all social network logins and passwords for background checks – Boing Boing. (via @justinherman)

The U.S. economy will not recover until the end of this year, and even then growth will remain meek and vulnerable to higher interest rates and commodity prices, economist Nouriel Roubini said on Tuesday. via Roubini sees weeds amid green shoots | Industry Summits | Reuters.