Ralph Lauren doesn’t like that you don’t like their ad

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Ralph Lauren has a new ad out with an impossibly skinny model in it.  As Boing-Boing put it, "Dude, her head's bigger than her pelvis". The ad was highlighted on PhotoshopDisasters, as an example of (we really hope) bad Photoshopping.  However, Ralph Lauren filed a (bogus) DMCA takedown notice on the ...

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A public book-burning might not help hide that book.

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

According to Techdirt, a group of people in Wisconsin are petitioning a local library for permission to burn "Baby Be-Bop", the story of a gay teenager. Of course, by making this big stink about wanting to burn the book (and suing for $120,000 because they were exposed to it), the book ...

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