From KickAsss (yes, they have 3 “s” at the end of their name!), a clothing company located in the town of Biarritz a.k.a. the French Mecca of surfing!

Adwords Revenue Shares finally revealed

  • AdSense for content: 68% revenue share
  • AdSense for search: 51% revenue share

Source: Adsense Blog

Ireland is the first country in the world where a system of “graduated response” is being put in place. Under the pilot scheme, Eircom customers who illegally share copyrighted music will get three warnings before having their broadband service cut off for a year.
That’s not the reason why I closed my account with Eircom today, but I’m glad I’m not with them anymore. Irish Times via Boing Boing

French Cinema: Controversy 2.0

Notre jour viendra (Our day will come) by Romain Gavras, who directed the controversial Justice’s Stress and MIA’s Born Free music videos.

Enter the Void by Gaspard Noé, who directed the controversial Irreversible film.

Count Ketchup, available for sale on Spread Heads [hat tip to Radek]

(Reblogged from thedailywhat)

Clap your hand and say yeah!

Heather from Fuel Friends Blog has compiled 32 tracks in a Double-CD/Gatefold LP supermix that I garantee will have you clap your hands and stomp your feet in no time.

Treat yourself to songs that, as Heather writes, “bubble up effervescently with that passion which has to explode out your extremities in the form of claps, stomps, and other forms of bodily percussion.

Your browser settings are unique and identifiable

New research by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has found that an overwhelming majority of web browsers have unique signatures — creating identifiable “fingerprints” that could be used to track you as you surf the Internet.

The findings were the result of an experiment EFF conducted with volunteers who visited http://panopticlick.eff.org/. The website anonymously logged the configuration and version information from each participant’s operating system, browser, and browser plug-ins — information that websites routinely access each time you visit — and compared that information to a database of configurations collected from almost a million other visitors. EFF found that 84% of the configuration combinations were unique and identifiable, creating unique and identifiable browser “fingerprints.” Browsers with Adobe Flash or Java plug-ins installed were 94% unique and trackable.

EFF Web Browsers Leave ‘Fingerprints’ Behind as You Surf the Net

added to my Amazon wishlist.
[via Fluctuat]

added to my Amazon wishlist.

[via Fluctuat]

In 1995, the Chicago Reader profiled a little-known professor (and lawyer and philanthropist and author) who had decided to run for office to get back to his true passion: community organizing.
Do you know who the professor was? Via Longform