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With the sun out, the temperatures high, one can only think of one thing-- what's going on in the World of the -ist's? Bostonist dug deep to uncover Barack Obama's unpaid parking tickets, their Governor's latest ethical lapse, and a plagarizing sports writer. Chicagoist had everything in twos: two views on having the Olympics, losing two members of their Super Bowl team, and two music festivals. DCist put their noses in legal books as...

Who needs advance reviews when this Bostonist's got an excuse to wear her vintage stewardess uniform to the theater? Thursday 8/17 Snakes On A Plane Jon Stewart: What's the plot? Samuel L. Jackson: Uhhh... Bad guy wants to bring down the plane... Stewart: What's on the plane? Jackson: Victims. Stewart: No no no no. Jackson: Reptiles? Stewart: Yes! Jackson: Poisonous reptiles! Stewart: Yes! Jackson: Snakes on a mother***ing plane! Stewart: They wanted to make it...

A sly mention earlier this week of the wonders of Creative Commons licensing in a post about the Free Culture movement might have been a clue. Perhaps the repeated italicized credits for photos from Flickr users at the bottom of other posts were the tip off. Either way it is clear to us that Flickr is a great Web 2.0 application and a wonderful resource for us poor bloggers looking for great imagery without access (well, money to cough up for the huge fee) to the AP photo wire. Not only do we integrate Flickr photos into our posts with appropriately licensed photographs and attribution but we, just the other day, added event photos to our site.

One of the problems with being as terribly derivative as Bostonist sometimes tends to be is that it's hard to find photos. It's easy to re-hash a Globe story and add some snarky commentary, but using the Globe's actual pictures that they paid actual photographers to take is, well, frowned upon. Because of this, we're very interested in the Free Culture movement, which seeks to challenge existing rules about the ownership of artistic creations. Most of the Free Culture movement isn't as crass and self-serving as we are, and we imagine its better elements will be on display on Thursday, when Northeastern hosts a panel discussion on the movement.