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After the U.S. Government took action against several sites connected to movie streaming recently, nerves are jangling over the possibility that this is just the beginning of a wider crackdown. Now it appears that a free blogging platform has been taken down by its hosting provider on orders from the U.S. authorities on grounds of “a history of abuse”. More than 73,000 blogs are out of action as a result. Hot on the heels of recent threats from Vice President Joe Biden and Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator Victoria Espinel directed at sites offering unauthorized movies and music, last month U.S....

TUESDAY, MAY 04, 2010 "U.S. Treasury Site Compromise Linked to the NetworkSolutions Mass WordPress Blogs Compromise" SNIPPET: "UPDATED: Saturday, May 08, 2010: 5 new domains have been introduced by the same gang, once again parked at 217.23.14.14, AS49981, WorldStream."

Hat Tip to Ronin and Andrea for making me aware of these cockroaches. Found: 2 cockroach websites...first, YouTubeJihad.... Note the cast of characters: (More on them later.) Nice blogroll -- and it goes on much further. Anwar Al-Awlaki will come in handy for my complaint. Of course, the videos posted on the site are hosted by who else? YouTube. The Taliban's video hosting site of choice. Ahhh -- here's a nice, peaceful video: Which leads to the other blog in question, mujahidblog. This little terrorist supporting blog showcases videos such as this: So, like any good citizen and user of...

The Post & Email is reporting tonight that the Hawaii Dept. of Health has sent them a pdf file with a list of births on a computer print out. Obama's birth is not on it. The images of the pdf doc is available on their website. Does anyone know if the Hawaii Birth Index includes all the different types of bc's. Just curious.

Any tech savvy FReepers who can help me with a Word Press crisis? Please pm em if you can help. Thanks!

Can anyone educate me on how to make links in Word Press? I swear this is worse than algebra. I am stumped. I just want to be able to post a column & then link to other articles as references. The instructions I have found look like calculus. Anyone able to explain it to one as clueless as I? Thanks!

1:05 update: According to our private phone conversations with people in Tehran, hundreds of parents have gathered by a police station in Yousef Abad, now known as Seyyed Jamal Aldin Asad Abadi, with their hands raised to the sky saying “Obama, please help us, they are killing our young children.”  They were gathering there because their kids are missing and they were trying to find out where they are. Also, according to eyewitness accounts, gunshots could be heard last night until 3am in Elahiyeh, alongside chants of “God is great!” from people on their rooftops.  This was a widespread tactic in the 1979 revolution,...

(United States Army) This week the Army not only launched an official blog portal, but also an Army fan page on Facebook.

I am proud to announce a brand new Wordpress theme, commissioned by TaxDayTeaParty.com and ConstitutionWatch.org, designed by Jeremy Buff: The Conservative American FREE Wordpress Theme. I hope you guys enjoy it, any feedback/suggestions are always welcome! :)

I've been writing for years and most of the time I push the envelop quite a bit. But today, for the very first time, a blog server has censored what I wrote...all because some Nancy Grace Cult Members were offended by this post: Is it me or is Nancy Grace an utter and complete whack job? The Maury Povich of cable's prime time talking heads, CNN's helmet headed and confused crusader against all perceived evil people and their families, Grace is as rude as she is stupid.

WordPress secures $29 million in funding By Lisa Hoover on January 24, 2008 (2:02:00 PM) Printer friendly page Print Comment on this article Comments Automattic, the parent company of popular open source blogging platform WordPress, announced this week it received $29 million in funding from four investors who will take a minority stake in the company. Though this isn't the first round of financing for the not quite three-year-old company, it has drawn a lot of notice because one of the investors is the New York Times. It's an unusual pairing of two industries -- blogging and conventional media --...