Look it up now
 

English Wikipedia will be shutting down Wednesday to protest SOPA.

Ha.

I heard about that. This overreach reminds me of our recent enshrinement in law of indefinite detention. "Let's shut down a whole website because they have a link to copyrighted material." Such a grand all-encompassing law showcases the weakness of our faith in our legal system. With these laws, we invent new crimes.

Yay England.
Don't knowledge-tax on our Wiki!

Or something.

And Reddit, and boingboing, and many more.

Actually, its the English language version of Wiki that's being shut down. So we can thank English speakers everywhere for a day of total confusion brought about by forced searches on Bing and other questionable search engines.

maybe somebody should throw some internet in a harbour, worked well enough last time.

Look it up now, Funk soul brother

I wish I had a class of students on the day Wikipedia was offline.

All right kids... homework ... Surprise essay! Due Tomorrow!! Bwahaahaahaaahahahaha!

My last year or so working in the bar, a guy used to play that all the time, late in the night.

It always gets stuck in my ear.

From Pete's link:

WHAT? I no can has cheezburger? :(

;)

I always thought that was dome by Beck



who the fuck is Fat Boy Slim, anyways??

So look it up, lazy.

Uh-ohh...

Mozilla? Does that mean my browser will stop working tomorrow?

What about the Cellar? UT should probably shut that down for the day. (Just think how the world's productivity will improve for those 24 hours!)

Right about now (listening to the video) all the workers should be around the bar doing a quick shot of their choice. :lol:

I know who he is, smarmy.. I was just saying who the fuck... like how dare he be the cause of ME being wrong! damn him. damn him straight to hellllll.

Clone thread: Look Up It Now

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She's got big feet.

And I cannot lie.

I notice that she's standing on a steam grating while wearing stiletto heels. No mean feet*, that.



*c'mon, you know me. :D

SPEAK UP AND OPPOSE PIPA/SOPA !!!
 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Wikipedia main page, enter your zipcode, it links to email contact for your congressmen / representatives.

https://www.usps.com/
US Postal service website can provide your zipcode+4, if required.

This is what I sent to all concerned:

Google has a nice doodle for the day as well.

More than a doodle, there is a link from Google's main page to an online petition.

Is it bad that I pretty much copied and pasted your message to Senator Toomey?
I actually have an internal email address for him as we've gone round about some TBI issues.
Hope it gets read and ...

Anyone who agrees with what I said has my permission to copy/paste my message, if that encourages them to SEND AN EMAIL.

I missed that - now done.
tx

Thank you.

C'mon, Americans, please do this. Some of us don't even have a congressman.

No repression without representation!

A lot of sites are dark today. But, apparently, it's Virus Day over at StumbleUpon. Opened the page, and AVG immediately went apeshit.

Hah!

The two of you can't agree on throttle body injection?

<<<<<smartass - TBI. . . . ;)

If I already sit there and refresh the page when I've read everything, what makes you think I won't do the same just because the site's down?

Oh.

I think it's ironic that you're giving a Wikipedia pointer in this tread today.

thanks. that was the point of the arrows <<<<
:)

I just read the cached wikipedia pages yesterday. I usually google first then go to wikipee

Wikipeekee posted this message today:

Thank you.
The Wikipedia blackout is over — and you have spoken.

More than 162 million people saw our message asking if you could imagine a world without free knowledge. You said no. You shut down Congress’s switchboards. You melted their servers. Your voice was loud and strong. Millions of people have spoken in defense of a free and open Internet.

For us, this is not about money. It’s about knowledge. As a community of authors, editors, photographers, and programmers, we invite everyone to share and build upon our work.

Our mission is to empower and engage people to document the sum of all human knowledge, and to make it available to all humanity, in perpetuity. We care passionately about the rights of authors, because we are authors.

SOPA and PIPA are not dead: they are waiting in the shadows. What’s happened in the last 24 hours, though, is extraordinary. The Internet has enabled creativity, knowledge, and innovation to shine, and as Wikipedia went dark, you've directed your energy to protecting it.

We’re turning the lights back on. Help us keep them shining brightly.

Funny part is - The lights were always on.
All you had to do was hit the escape key and the site was yours for the browsing.