Net Radio is a Dead Man Walking

Well, it looks like the courts don’t see any need to keep the CRB and SoundExchange in line with reality. This article spells it out pretty clear. By this time next year, most net radio “stations” will be broadcast from outside the US. Stupid. The revenue potential (advertising) being ignored is dumbfounding. I can’t find [...]

Dead Man Preaching

MSNBC has pretty much sealed this guy’s fate. “Excuse me, please, but who is ticking in the back pew?”

A collection of stupid news

We tolerate this because they have oil. She gets a “reprieve” except that they still call her the “porn teacher”. G8 should be called G7 since the US rarely agress to binding decisions. Justice prevails or fails, you be the judge. I can see it now: RIAA will levy a fee for each game session [...]

10 Truths about (hu)Mankind

1. Mankind is not “intelligent life” Most of you will just nod in agreement and move on to number 2. For those of you that pause and even begin to disagree with this: you’re an f-ing idiot. There is no intelligent life on Earth. It’s all relative. We’re smarter than cockroaches (well, maybe), but certainly [...]

Stop the Insanity

As if the proposed IPP Act of 2007 isn’t bizarre enough, we also have Microsoft sharpening the dull heads of their legal department to prepare for an attack on the open source community.  We also have another loss of sensitive employee data by an IBM “contractor”.   Yet another soldier has gone missing after a bomb [...]