Who owns the English language?

KFC have set their lawyers on the Tan Hill Inn, a pub in Yorkshire who described their Christmas meal as a "family feat". KFC claim that they have registered this phrase as their trademark, so it can only be applied to greasy stuff in buckets.
Full story here.
I've been to that pub. It's a good one. They are used to hill-walkers, so very dog-friendly.

Blog Censorship

I found some stuff on censorship, involving everyone's favourite medium, the humble blog.

http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2007/05/army_bloggers

Here we can see censorship in a very practical effect. It is necessary for a government to ensure the truth about the wars they are fighting does not permeate into our society; as if we were exposed to it we would be less willing to accept the bloodshed.

In reference to yesterdays lesson

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/commentary/sexdrive/2007/05/sexdrive_0504

Interesting...

Der Fuehrer's Face

Here's an extract from the original cartoon:

Is it right to involve children in such a way ?...

The Israeli regime is cruel, careless and oppressive... but is it right for children to be taught messages of resistance like this ?
Of course, our media will inflate this to beyond it's relevance – after all we do love having an stronghold in the Middle-East... Oh, did I say that ? I meant... an 'ally' in the Middle-East. To be honest, I'm more worried about Israel nuking all the Muslim countries around it than I am that a child might be slightly more likely to RESIST ITS OPPRESSORS. Not that this is the same as Occupied Europe (in the Second World War) and the American War of Independence etc. .... No, they must be submissive, and enjoy suffering.

"It's not just Mickey, it's indoctrinating children like this, teaching them to be evil. The world loves children and this is just going against the grain of humanity ... What we're dealing with here is pure evil and you can't ignore that." -Diane Disney Miller

As is demonstrated by both sides of this conflict : the concept of Good and Evil is a dangerous invention of Judaeo-Christianity that has caused countless wars for the past 2000 years. (And it started by invading Northern Europe and eradicating our old culture and ways.) Now we have wars like this – between two religions that are effectively the same – Judaism and Islam.

Cake

Here's an extract from BrassEye on Cake.
Questions:

1. How did they get these celebrities to appear on the programme?
2. Why do most programmes use famous faces or voices?
3. Should you ever believe anything a celebrity tells you?

Second Life

Here is the news article I mentioned.
Definitely very strange stuff.
This is a link to Second Life. They've got six million members, apparently, some of them with wings...

It's a place where people can act out their fantasy personas. The trouble is that some people's fantasy personas are not very nice.

Cultsock

Do you know the Cultsock website?

It's got even more information than the Aberystwith site, but is easier to find your way around.

Ideal for revision. Just look up any subject in the Table of Contents.