Topeka, Kansas mayor Bill Bunten has announced today that the city will temporarily be renamed Google, in an effort to get the search giant to bring their proposed 1000Mbit free Internet to the city, via the “Fiber for Communities” program.
“It’s just fun. We’re having a good time of it,” says Bunten. “There’s a lot of good things that are going on in our city.”
Cities were given a March 26th deadline to explain to Google why they are interested in the broadband, and Google will then choose a couple of cities for the pilot project, with no more than 500,000 in population total.
When asked if they would make the name permanent if Google invested in them, Bunten laughed.
“Oh, heavens no, Topeka? We are very proud of our city and Topeka is an Indian word which means ‘a good place to grow potatoes.’ We’re not going to change that.”
Result for: good time
Yesterday, the large public torrent tracker The Pirate Bay was taken down by Swedish police, and many users believed it was the end of the site, for good.
Today however, TPB admins have re-opened the site using a new ISP, with the tracker itself expected to be back up soon as well.
In re-opening the site, the Pirate Bay team has also posted a statement that uses one of Winston Churchill’s famous World War II speeches. It may be over the top, but their message is pretty clear.
The speech:
“We have, ourselves, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once more able to defend our Internets, to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of tyranny, if necessary for years, if necessary alone.
Even though large parts of Internets and many old and famous trackers have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Ifpi and all the odious apparatus of MPAA rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the ef-nets and darknets, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Internets, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the baywords.org, we shall fight on the /. and on the digg, we shall fight in the courts; we shall never surrender, and if, which I do not for a moment believe, the Internets or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the Anon Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in Cerf’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.
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Result for: good time
SlySoft sent us a note that they will be changing their upgrade policy soon. Currently, if you buy any of SlySoft’s products, you’ll get free updates for your lifetime. To be fair for its current and past customers, this policy wont change for existing customers, but soon new customers will get the updates only for one year, a familiar policy with many software products nowadays.
So if you plan to purchase AnyDVD, AnyDVD HD, or any other of their products, now is a pretty good time — and they’re offering 20% discount for all purchases made before December 31st, 2008.
Further details, prices, etc about SlySoft’s products can be found from SlySoft’s website. CloneDVD
