Oh the sweet, sweet irony!
A small software company has accused major label Sony/BMG of software piracy, in a reversal of the normal orientation of piracy cases between major labels and the rest of the world.
[From Sony/BMG Under Investigation for Software Piracy | Listening Post from Wired.com]
Today, hundreds of thousands of people, and hundreds of cities across the world are participating in Earth Hour. From 8 pm – 9 pm local time, people all over the world will be turning off their lights. In homes, businesses, city & state government facilities, the lights go dark as a way to raise awareness …
Thanks to Neil Gaiman for turning me on to Mitch Benn:
There’s more over on YouTube, but these were my favorites.
Take the Earth, place it in a kind of time bubble that slows our time down to an infinitesimal crawl compared with the rest of the universe and shut out the stars and you create a world that poses a highly unique set of challenges to the characters involved. Sort of like the whole world …
Ahh, it’s nice to know that dumb people live in places other than America. And by dumb, I don’t mean regular, run-of-the-mill ignorant dumb, I mean dumb to such an extent that it is almost awe inspiring:
Of course, we freely give airtime and political power to people as myopic as this guy when it comes to evolution so we shouldn’t smirk too much.
K I S S I N G Oh what fun to have the President of the United States of America not only support torture but also, and outright, support military coups and dictators: In a memo to the secretary of state dated Monday, Bush used his authority to exempt Pakistan from a law that restricts …
On the McCain news, a few interesting tidbits: The Maverick thumbed his nose at the FEC when his latest campaign finance report showed that he blew past the public financing spending limit. He had agreed to take public financing when his campaign was in the crapper and he needed the matching funds. Once his political …
In the spirit of “88 Lines about 44 Women” I’d like to offer a small memorial to a number–22 to be exact–of people that I have lost along the years. Honestly, these lines are not brilliant, and some of them are not even good, but I have tried to communicate at least one essential element of each person, or my relationship to them. In a very clumsy and earnest way, I am trying to pay all of them a small tribute. The rhyme scheme is too Dr. Seuss and I should have gone for ABABCDCD instead of AABBCCDD – but you live and learn.
Enough dissembling! Here then, are 44 lines about 22 people:
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Our cat is a stubborn cat. She does not like doors that are closed and in her way. This morning, at about 6:30 am, I kicked her out of the bedroom and closed the door so I could get some extra sleep. Until recently, her tactic for getting through the door would be to start …
Kids in the Hall are still one of my favorite comedy troupes. I recently started Netflixing the first season of their tv show and it stand up remarkably well, even all these years later. At least, it does for someone who came of age during the 80s – some of it may seem hopelessly dated to younger generations.
Somehow, the Kids have gone to middle age, which means I’m far to close to that vaguely unsettling and amorphous age myself.
Sigh
Dave Foley has a new internet talk show series that is pretty darn funny and very worth watching if you are fan of the Kids: