How the Internet covered the West Bank Fire

The ZITE app scrapes the web and assembles stories automatically - like Flipbook, without the sense that the pages never end and you'll never read it all. You can scan articles, decide you want to read them later, shoot them to a read-it-later service, then ignore them until you delete them later. Anyway, the Minneapolis subhead was full of stores about the West Bank fire; here are a few.

Downtown? I don't consider the West Bank to be "downtown," but maybe that's just me. The highway is like a moat, or the Miss - it defines downtown, contains it. Decades ago when the streets behind Cedar Square West (oh, all right, Riverside Plaza) connected with downtown, it might be considered the outskirts, but now? Looks odd. But then there's this:

A "Minnesota" building. Well, better than "North American," I suppose. From the Daily Mail in Northernmost Europe:

Now it's a house. Finally, the Free Republic:

Hint, hint, I guess. And it's not a complex. It's an old apartment building. The Complex is the thing behind it.

UPDATE In case anyone's wondering about the Shia LaBeouf plagiarism tale, there's this:

(Photo from his twitter feed, here.)

Bleeding Cool says they interviewed him, and the conversation is a masterpiece of pretentious drivel.

This may be my favorite part - the interviewer asks if people who create things - like, oh, an illustrated novel - should be paid for their labors. Says LaBeouf:

"Authorship is censorship Should God sue me if I paint a river? Should we give people the death sentence for parking violations-You'll not only have less parking violations but less DRIVERS."

The interviewer gently notes that "God's rights to rivers have entered into public domain now," and says that you should pay your driving fines and refrain from parking on other people's lawns, or stealing other people's cars. In other words, he's maneuvering the subject towards the subject of appropriating Daniel Clowes' work. Here's LaBeouf's bold statement:

The article's update informs us that the last sentence is actually a quote from Lawrence Lessig. Follow it here, as people dig through the quotes to see if he said anything original.