Time Magazine has some great Martin Luther King photo galleries including Rare Photos at Home and Dr. Martin Luther King, JR. Rare and unpublished photographs of the civil rights movement. I’m sure web surfers around the globe would love to see these twice as large. Which is kind of possible, should you take some time to dig through Google Images with source:life.

Some amazing shots including, The Firing Line (large), Military Escort and, pictured above, Conversation… MLK on explaining to his daughter why she could not go to Funtown, a whites-only amusement park: “One of the most painful experiences I have ever faced was to see her tears when I told her Funtown was closed to colored children, for I realized the first dark cloud of inferiority had floated into her little mental sky.” To keep the Time links going, they do an interesting multimedia piece on the assasination of Martin Luther King as well.

On civil rights fronts, there’s been some great content on the two gay marriage cases that are headed to the Supreme Court. A Risky Proposal: Is It Too Soon to Petition the Supreme Court on Gay Marriage?, and Terry Gross discusses with the author, Margaret Talbot, what the decision of this case will mean for gay rights. Margaret Talbot is also blogging the progress of Perry v. Schwarzenegger for the New Yorker. Go go human rights!

In the news:

OiNK Website Shutdown – BBC video on You Tube

Huge pirate music site shut down – BBC News
The BBC quotes a police spokesperson:

“This extremely lucrative and creative scheme consisted of a private file-sharing website being set up.”

Creative scheme? Bit Torrent is a “creative scheme”, created by Oink? Are the police just trying to put this into news friendly terms? Or do they seriously misunderstand the site they’ve been investigating for the past 2 years?

Interview with Oink web host
“We’re just hoping they return our 30,000 euro servers as soon as possible.”

Oink Busted
“Users were, ‘potentially evading licence fees, subscription fees to digital services…’” “Potentially? So now they’re nailing people for something they might, or might not, do.”

OiNK Admin Released From Custody
“More interesting perhaps, how did they gain access to the OiNK domain, and why are they allowed to spread this propaganda? They are not a law-enforcement agency.”

Defending the Pig – Oink Croaks
DJ Rupture on Oink and why it’s good for music.

OiNK Database Didn’t ‘Self Destruct’, Wasn’t Encrypted But Users Safe?
“Following the raid at OiNK, many of the 180,000 members are very concerned about what’s happening with their details. The rumor: The OiNK database was encrypted and self-destructed. The truth: It wasn’t and it didn’t but ex-users still might be safe.” … “the logs we store aren’t enough to incriminate users.”

Alan Ellis (Oink) answers some questions
It’s great that after all this, he still made himself available to the users, and was able to do so.

“Bush goes ballistic about other countries being evil and dangerous, because they have weapons of mass destruction. But, he insists on building up even a more deadly supply of nuclear arms right here in the US. What do you think? Is killing thousands of innocent civilians okay when you are doing a little government makeover?

Our country is in debt until forever, we don’t have jobs, and we live in fear. We have invaded a country and been responsible for thousands of deaths.

We have lost friends and influenced no one. No wonder most of the world thinks we suck. Thanks to what george bush has done to our country during the past three years, we do!”

A few photos from The Best of Photojournalism 2006.

Alton Verm’s request to ban “Fahrenheit 451″ came during the 25th annual Banned Books Week. He and Hines said the request to ban “Fahrenheit 451,” a book about book burning, during Banned Books Weeks is a coincidence.

In a related story, also in Texas, a teacher was fired because some of her students saw nudity in a museum. Do we really count Texas as a state?

There was a little controversy recently, regarding the use of the Love park sign on http://skate.etnies.com/, which – coincidentally enough, was removed a couple of weeks ago…
Traffic skateboards was hating on the Love park recognition (read the blog entries on their site, can’t link directly to it based on use of iframes). I can see the pride at stake, but the idea was to raise recognition of Love, or so it seems, regardless of who etnies does & doesn’t sponsor. You’d think people would be excited to see it exposed to as many people as possible. Philly could use all the help it can get especially at a time like now . Had they dug deeper on the site, they would have found links to the various non-profit organizations in place to raise money & awareness for a public ‘plaza’ (skatepark) in Philly. I think those too, have been removed. Note the philly style garbage can still pictured in the banner.

Buy it now for $15 or bid it up and pay EVEN MORE! I wouldn’t wear this thing, but I think YOU should.

• He had a C average in that Ivy league school.
• He scored a 25 out of 100 on his national guard exam.
• He ran that oil business into the ground.
• He fronted for the Texas Rangers.
• He’s done blow at camp David.
• He was handed the governorship of that one redneck state.
• He has that brother running Florida.

Thanks to php gallery, this handy iPhoto plugin, and my girlfriend, we’ve got some very serious election coverage.

Susan Lee is standing by (watching TV) in Philadelphia, the city that started it all; armed with a CNN sponsored map and a sheet of donkey & elephant stickers. As the votes come in, and the states are determined demo or repub, she will be adding her stickers accordingly and updating the election 2004 gallery. She’ll be updating this throughout the night (unless it runs too, too long) so stay tuned here for g-cools first ever, LIVE election coverage.