Visit Wikipedia’s article on Operation Clambake:

DMCA and Google delisting

In various incidents documented in such publications as The New York Times, Slashdot and Wired,[21] Scientology has also used the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to force notable Web sites (including the Google search engine)[22] to remove the Operation Clambake homepage, and several leaflets containing copyrighted information, from their indexes.[23][24] Because the Xenu.net site itself is based in Norway, it does not fall under the jurisdiction of the DMCA.[25][15][26]

In March 2002, Google agreed to limit access to material critical of Scientology on www.xenu.net, after it was sued by the Church of Scientology for copyright infringement.[26][27][28] Information the Church of Scientology had objected to included an internal report on the death of Lisa McPherson, and images of L. Ron Hubbard.[29] Google received criticism for its actions, and The Guardian reported that Operation Clambake suspected the Church of Scientology was mainly concerned about secret documents where “L Ron Hubbard is said to describe how an alien galactic ruler called Xenu is the root of all human woe.”[30] After Operation Clambake was delisted by Google, free speech advocates besieged Google, complaining that the company was censoring search results.[31] Prior to Google’s delisting of the Operation Clambake site, CBC News reported that the site was listed fourth in a search for “Scientology.”[32] However after Google’s actions, Xenu.net did not appear in searches for “Scientology”.[33]

Hi all!

Hope you had a mad-as weekend. I know I did. The TripleJ Hottest 100 countdown was simply ecstatic this year, with some really great songs receiving their deserved position in the biggest music countdown of the year.

You can review the final 100 listing and re-listen to the event at the TripleJ website; I’m a little disappointed that Muscles, Midnight Juggernauts and PNAU didn’t receive more recognition, but there really isn’t a song in that list that I don’t like (except maybe that fucking Soko song …)

This year saw 53 of the top 100 songs from Australian artists, which I think is a fucking top effort. Good work Australia!

Attention all consumers:

Please read your warranties, either before or immediately after purchasing a product. Most companies will have their warranty agreements available either on-line, or you may request at your place of purchase to read the warranty before handing over your hard-earned.

Please, for the love of all customer service people worldwide, read your warranties and understand what obligations you as the customer have to the company you are purchasing from, and what obligations that company has to you as the customer.

If anything is left out, or appears ambiguous, ask about it. Sometimes sneaky companies like to leave things a little cloudy so they have some leeway in the event of a problem. If this concerns you, perhaps buy from another company.

I’m sick of talking to people who invent portions of warranty agreements to suit their own selfish needs. They cause arguments and waste time; precious time I could be spending solving genuine problems of customers who aren’t ignorant, arrogant, or outright stupid.

You can’t work around a warranty. They’re written by teams of smart lawyers who know more about the law than you do. You either accept it or you don’t. There’s no leeway. Don’t like it? Don’t buy the product.

Once again, I state: please, customers, please read your warranty agreements; thoroughly and thoughtfully. They’re typically only a page or two in length. You have five minutes to read it. I don’t have five minutes to argue the finer points of it with you all several times a day. I have work to do, and you probably do too.

Stop wasting everyones’ time.