how to navigate the slippery slope of SOPA & PIPA

don't sit this one out
don't sit this one out
© 2012 Dave Weinberg

What’s in a name (or acronym)?
SOPA – Stop Online Piracy Act
PIPA – Protect IP Act

And are they really about piracy or censorship?

Complicated issues. No easy answers except the one the US is trying to pass. Don’t sit this one out! Learn more about SOPA & PIPA and keep the conversations going!

More about why SOPA is a bad idea (and PIPA too) – a 13 minute TED talk from Clay Shirky.

endearingly in deering

spirits of barking squirrel(s) descending
© 2010 Dave Weinberg

very few things in life eclipse a mid-evening snowshoe jaunt thru meteorologist’s UNDER-predicted fallen snow. (aka *LOVE* when Lou McNally says 2-4″ and it just keeps on fluffin’ up to just under 10″…)

The evening hike thru Deering Oaks Park in Portland (originally drafted by William A. Goodwin and later adapted byFrederick Law Olmstead‘s firm – a seeming mini-prototype of Central Park in NYC) was truly magical – even my inner parking genie (super power) totally delivered – despite the area being prime for parking ban overflow.

I am told that the well preserved period building in this image used to house a restaurant called the barking squirrel.