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GMacGuffin's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week

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Pre-postscript: I realized down at the end of this that it's all about uncool lawyering, and I didn’t get to the most uncoolest of them all, the DOJ. Steel up, because scary DOJ stories roll in at an alarming pace.

That said, we're working an attorney theme today from Hey, to Schadenfreude, then on to Censorious Douchebaggery.

The Hey:

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Xbox One Release: Tons Of Questions, Very Few Answers

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Unless, like me, you are looking at the release dates for the next generation of gaming consoles the way a starving hyena watches an approaching gazelle that's been eating nothing but butter for weeks, perhaps you're not up on all the information coming about regarding Microsoft's next console. Actually, as I'll discuss in a moment, even if you ar

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DailyDirt: DIY Soda (Pop Or Whatever You Call Carbonated Beverages)

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Making your own carbonated soft drinks has a few benefits -- from knowing where all the ingredients came from (eg. no brominated vegetable oil) to getting the satisfaction of creating your own custom flavoring. It's not quite as simple as punching a button on a vending machine, but it's not exactly rocket science, either. Here are just a few links...

Fair Use For Me, But Not For Thee

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Here's a wacky one. Blogger Mark Reinhardt, who blogs about Idaho, had written a blog post critical of local TV station KTVB and its news reporting. With it, he included a YouTube clip of the reporting in question, along with some of his own commentary about why the reporting was "one sided journalism." While the disclaimer he posted with it,...