Breadpig Blog: Purveyor & Publisher of All Things Geek — billboards

It started as a random idea. Thanks to crowdtilt it became a reality: two billboards outside the offices of Lamar Smith in Austin and San Antonio. Then came the shirts. You can still buy them for $20 -- 15% of each sale goes to Fight for the Future! Thanks to all of you, we raised $591 for internet freedom from the first pre-order batch alone. We wrote Fight For the Future a check and added it to the public spreadsheet (now over $200,000 funds raise and profits donated!). Many more projects to make the world suck less to come! Always,...

Mad props to @iamweswilson for snapping this photo in San Antonio earlier today January 18, 2012 was a watershed moment in the history of the internet. Millions came together to stop SOPA and PIPA and the fight isn't over. In March, we fundraised a reminder to the author of SOPA, Representative Lamar Smith -- in the form of a billboard right outside of his office in Texas. Thanks to all of your support (and NY startup Adstruc for the billboard assistance), we funded this project in less than two days. Even better, we had enough for two billboards. The first...