Banned & Recovered: Artists Respond to Censorship underscores the current political climate and points to the vulnerability of guaranteed fundamental rights. More than 60 artists were invited to... More > choose from a list of hundreds of banned and challenged books as a source for inspiration, many considered classics or works that have created an important cultural legacy.< Less
This manual is the supplement to the FlossManuals book "HOW TO BYPASS
INTERNET CENSORSHIP".
"HOW TO BYPASS INTERNET CENSORSHIP", written in partnership with
Sesawe, provides an... More > introduction to the topic and explains some of the
software and methods most often used for circumventing censorship.
This supplement proposes tutorials for Your-Freedom, Freegate, UltraSurf
and HotSpot Shield - Sesawe. These proprietary software could not be
documented in the context of the FlossManuals book, because of the
philosophy of the Floss Manuals Foundation, whose mission is to create free
documentation for free (in a "free speech", or open source sense) software.
However, the software presented in this supplement are free (in a "free beer",
or gratis sense) and efficiently defeat Internet filtering, so it was thought they
would be of interest to users in censored jurisdictions, in a field where
diversity is a significant asset.< Less
This manual is the supplement to the FlossManuals book "HOW TO BYPASS
INTERNET CENSORSHIP".
"HOW TO BYPASS INTERNET CENSORSHIP", written in partnership with
Sesawe, provides an... More > introduction to the topic and explains some of the
software and methods most often used for circumventing censorship.
This supplement proposes tutorials for Your-Freedom, Freegate, UltraSurf
and HotSpot Shield - Sesawe. These proprietary software could not be
documented in the context of the FlossManuals book, because of the
philosophy of the Floss Manuals Foundation, whose mission is to create free
documentation for free (in a "free speech", or open source sense) software.
However, the software presented in this supplement are free (in a "free beer",
or gratis sense) and efficiently defeat Internet filtering, so it was thought they
would be of interest to users in censored jurisdictions, in a field where
diversity is a significant asset.< Less
These are two short stories: FCC and Management of the Mind. Management of the Mind was a severe re-write of FCC, and both of them are pretty short, so it was only right to put them together. Neither... More > have been professionally edited. They are anti-censorship short stories.< Less
Jared and Paige Henry live in the sleepy little town of Sleepy Hollow, and their lives are fairly sleepy. Until one morning, when odd things begin to happen around their house. Slippers leave... More > themselves on steps and turn to gold. Gingerbread men run away. Pumpkins glow and start to grow wheels. And mom starts acting like a wicked stepmother.
Meanwhile, at school, the librarian, Mrs. Beatty is having fiction books hauled off the Media Center shelves for corrupting children’s minds. At first the Henrys think there is no connection between the strange events in their home and the ominous events at school. But they are soon pulled into a world of secret societies, alternate dimensions, and secret identities—and their own home becomes the target of a plot to destroy the world’s oldest stories!
This novel, draft in three days by 13 students at Stetson University’s HATS Program, will entertain and amuse you—and make you think about the importance of books!< Less
Jared and Paige Henry live in the sleepy little town of Sleepy Hollow, and their lives are fairly sleepy. Until one morning, when odd things begin to happen around their house. Slippers leave... More > themselves on steps and turn to gold. Gingerbread men run away. Pumpkins glow and start to grow wheels. And mom starts acting like a wicked stepmother.
Meanwhile, at school, the librarian, Mrs. Beatty is having fiction books hauled off the Media Center shelves for corrupting children’s minds. At first the Henrys think there is no connection between the strange events in their home and the ominous events at school. But they are soon pulled into a world of secret societies, alternate dimensions, and secret identities—and their own home becomes the target of a plot to destroy the world’s oldest stories!
This novel, draft in three days by 13 students at Stetson University’s HATS Program, will entertain and amuse you—and make you think about the importance of books!< Less
Having always conjured her dolls out of used, thrown away parts, Eva never noticed her life imitating art. Orphaned in a censored world brought on by hate-speech and retaliation bombings, Eva thrives... More > among the scene of displaced musicians and washed-up ballerinas, all the while ignoring a constant inkling, that, if admitted to, would certainly destroy everything she’s struggled to maintain. After the disappearance of her cyber-terrorist best friend, along with her often-ignored sister, Eva is forced to consider the effects of abandoning what she loves most, and, as an artist, is made to see that she’s been the one on the drawing board.< Less
Comedic actor, writer, and superstar Mae West broke all the rules in her eighty-year career. In everything she did, from vaudeville to television, Mae had censors looking over her shoulder. She was... More > arrested, more than once, for "obscenity," and even spent time in jail.
Despite the typical media portrayal of women as thin, young, and helpless, Mae managed to present a powerful, curvy, and in-charge personality both in public and in private. She is one of the most quoted women ever.
Learn about censorship and entertainment history as you read about the woman who said it best when she joked, "When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better."
"Well researched, informative and fun to read. Highly recommended."
-- Roz Warren, humor expert
"Tabatha Yeatts is to be congratulated for having written this nicely balanced account."
-- John Culme, founder of "Footlight Notes"< Less
What is it with pirates?
From Somali fishermen to DVD hawkers to childrens parties, pirates are all around us and their ‘Jolly Roger’ motif can be found on everything from skateboards to... More > baby-grows. Yet the original pirates were mutineers, rebelling against the brutal and violent oppression of the princes and merchants who enslaved them.
How has their fight become ours?
In this wide-reaching and eye-opening book, Kester Brewin fuses history, philosophy and sociology to explore the place of piracy in our history and culture, and, calling on Blackbeard, Luke Skywalker, Peter Pan and Odysseus, chases pirates through literature and film into the deepest realms of personal development, art, economics and belief.< Less
Welcome to the parallel universe of 12-12-12. This not what actually happened during 2012. But what unfolds is not more implausible. Nor is it less implausible. It is reality with healthy doses of... More > surreality and comedy, spawned by the tragic absurdity of our times. It is laugh-out-loud brain food for hungry minds.< Less
