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Given the title of the thread, are some considering the blackout less of a political manoeuvre and more of a portfolio addition?
Obviously they need to be attention grabbing enough to highlight the cause, but as a metric surely effectiveness is better than impressiveness?
Green Peace is also using this, not sure whether the German Pirate Party ripped it off from them or vice versa. http://greenpeace.org
LibreOffice.org seems to be the one that started popularizing this script.
I find it strange that a method of protest appears to be an opportunity to see who can make the nicest looking one. Given the title of the thread, are some considering the blackout less of a political manoeuvre and more of a portfolio addition? Obviously they need to be attention grabbing enough to highlight the cause, but as a metric surely effectiveness is better than impressiveness?
Why not? Is a protest sign less credible if it's not made of cardboard and Sharpie™?
You should make everything you touch beautiful.
There are a lot of people using this, I am at http://jenius.me as well. This was posted 3 days ago and rose to the top of hacker news when the original author released it, I don't understand why some other site is now getting credit for it or why a duplicate link is on the popular page of HN again... Here's the link from 3 days ago, with over 170 upvotes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3468386
Great work by Zachary Johnson.
So is this some kind of meta-pirate joke? The source is ripped directly from the German Pirate Party website. http://www.piratenpartei.de
>ripped directly Author of the code: "I place this code in the public domain. I require no attribution." : https://github.com/zachstronaut/stop-sopa Your research-foo leaves much to be desired.
This code as it stands is still fully copyrighted and copying it is technically a felony.
Never saw the site before the blackout though, so I'm not sure if it is just a slight modification to their original homepage.
Here's an HTML5 blackout that I found pretty impressive as well: http://acko.net/ Never saw the site before the blackout though, so I'm not sure if it is just a slight modification to their original homepage.