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Submission + - AT&T Removes anti-Bush Lyrics From Webcast (rollingstone.com)

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Walter Wart

on Thursday August 09, 2007 @12:49PM

Walter Wart writes: "AT&T removed the lyrics ""George Bush, leave this world alone." and "George Bush find yourself another home." from Pearl Jam's Lollapalooza broadcast. AT&T claims that its content monitor had done so "by mistake". This has serious implications for political expression in an increasingly corporatized Internet. Pearl Jam said that it highlights the need for Net neutrality."

Submission + - Queen guitarist hands in his astronomy PhD thesis (bbc.co.uk) 1

Submitted by ianare on Friday August 03, 2007 @10:52AM

ianare writes: Queen guitarist Brian May has handed in his astronomy PhD thesis — 36 years after abandoning it to join the band. May recently carried out observational work at the Observatorio del Teide in Tenerife, where he studied the formation of "zodiacal dust clouds". He made his first astronomical observations for his thesis in 1971, before his pop career took off.

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