stop-sopa

Another way to participate in the Jan 18 blackout.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Submissions	Comments
Jan 16, 03:00	2012-01-16 03:00:00 UTC	2012-01-16 06:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
Jan 16, 06:00	2012-01-16 06:00:00 UTC	2012-01-16 09:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jan 16, 09:00	2012-01-16 09:00:00 UTC	2012-01-16 12:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jan 16, 12:00	2012-01-16 12:00:00 UTC	2012-01-16 15:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jan 16, 15:00	2012-01-16 15:00:00 UTC	2012-01-16 18:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jan 16, 18:00	2012-01-16 18:00:00 UTC	2012-01-16 21:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jan 16, 21:00	2012-01-16 21:00:00 UTC	2012-01-17 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jan 17, 00:00	2012-01-17 00:00:00 UTC	2012-01-17 03:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jan 17, 03:00	2012-01-17 03:00:00 UTC	2012-01-17 06:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jan 17, 06:00	2012-01-17 06:00:00 UTC	2012-01-17 09:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jan 17, 09:00	2012-01-17 09:00:00 UTC	2012-01-17 12:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jan 17, 12:00	2012-01-17 12:00:00 UTC	2012-01-17 15:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jan 17, 15:00	2012-01-17 15:00:00 UTC	2012-01-17 18:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jan 17, 18:00	2012-01-17 18:00:00 UTC	2012-01-17 21:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jan 17, 21:00	2012-01-17 21:00:00 UTC	2012-01-18 00:00:00 UTC	1	1	0

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eliot_sykes·Jan 17, 2012Submission

List of Stop SOPA Day page templates

A list of Stop SOPA Day page templates for anyone with a site joining the anti-SOPA action tomorrow, Wednesday January 18th: SOPA Strike has HTML and JavaScript options. The HTML template has a nifty newspaper graphic Site (links to JS option): http://sopastrike.com/ HTML template: http://sopastrike.com/strike/ zachstronaut's spotlight/going dark HTML template (already mentioned on HN) GitHub: https://github.com/zachstronaut/stop-sopa HTML template: http://www.zachstronaut.com/lab/text-shadow-box/stop-sopa.html nitrogenlogic's fork of zachstronaut's template, has some different versions linked to from the GitHub README: GitHub: https://github.com/nitrogenlogic/stop-sopa HTML template: http://www.nitrogenlogic.com/sopa.html Drupal module: https://github.com/mcantelon/drupal-sopa-blackout SopaBlackout.org has both JavaScript and WordPress v

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ersions. Go to the URL to see what it looks like and click anywhere that isn't a link to find the code: http://sopablackout.org/ WP-SOPA-Blackout is a WordPress plugin to replace your blog for the day with a splash screen, which you can see a screenshot of at the link: https://github.com/chrisguitarguy/WP-SOPA-Blackout Please comment below with any others you find.

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nitrogen·Jan 16, 2012

I made an overlay version of the spotlight effect that still allows the site to function, if you like the effect but don't like the total blackout: https://github.com/nitrogenlogic/stop-sopa (there's also a nice dark version available in the dark branch). Preview of an actual page with the overlay: http://www.nitrogenlogic.com/sopaindex.html

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