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Quick Hits, 9 Apr

Boing Boing: Korean War Hero on No Fly List for Anti-Bush Speech 

X in the City: Some girls's freaky.
("X in the..." may not be the most moral or frequently updated bit of weblogerry, but it's always interesting.)

Ryan Irelan: A Google 411 Video demo
(via Airbag, who I agree with, I can't see how this can stay free forever. But, it's Google, after all.)

The New Gehry Building Inside and out (via Kottke)
(Don't get a lot of opportunity to see the inside of an architectural office-building.)

Kottke: The Overton Window
(The realm of possible policy choices that might actually get implemented.)

Microsoft is Dead, and the follow-up, Microsoft is Dead: the Cliffs Notes (via DF)

Cockeyed: Fire from a coke can and toothpaste.
(Didn't so much work, but it's interesting.)

Wonderful D-Day cover for a new translation of the Illiad. (via Boing Boing)

Airbag: How Airbag got to be an LLC.

Last week's quake lifted the Solomon Islands several feet out of the ocean.
(If you've not seen this, it's awesome.)

TV Squad: Video: Jimmy Kimmel woodsheds Gawker Editor
(Over, well, lying and stalking and such. Oh, and he's filling in for Larry King while doing it. And dressed like him, too.)

Techdirt: High-school principle sues students over fake My Space pages.
(Parody is still an exception, right? And how can this be not-parody?)

Gizmodo: Floating Windmills of Awseomeness

Dethroner: '70s Southwest Airlines Stewardesses

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About the fake myspace thing. . .there was a principal at Clark that this happened to and she sued the students. I would too, if students did that to me. It's defamation of character.

Maybe it's defamation. Clearly political figures can be mocked. I'd imagine that this profile of George Bush http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=151319634 isn't legit, but it's clearly protected speech because it's parody--particularly with the tag line "I'm destroying America one day at a time"--so, I guess the question is, are only public figures protected targets for parody, and are teachers (and, even more so, administrators) public figures?

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