Copyright
good copy bad copy
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- Sunday 18th November 2007
I’ve been able to watch about half this film (streaming hassles), and what I’ve seen is excellent; an hour-long documentary on copyright and intellectual property by Andreas Johnsen, Ralf Christensen, and Henrik Moltke, called good copy bad copy.
Shawn comin’ through. The clip is also lounging around over at
ace.
And by the way, the section of the film about Brazilian “tecno braga”…
Music & Sound
Dropping science on Fat Joe
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- Saturday 17th November 2007
Science is making great strides in analysing rap.
Thanks to Trent over at…
Thoughts on Life
Studs Terkel at 95
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- Friday 16th November 2007
I’m a fan of Studs Terkel.
“I have, after a fashion, been celebrated for having celebrated the lives of the uncelebrated among us; for lending voice to the face in the crowd.”
When I started this blog, one of the first recommendations I made was to check out Terkel’s book of Depression interviews, Hard Times. I wrote:
When I was in high school, I remember that the Depression was a time…
Thoughts on Life
Accumulation Creep Pt. 1
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- Thursday 15th November 2007
Too much stuff backing up, and I’m tryng to clear the decks before The Thanksgiving Trip To The Rural Relations. So here (with a few brief asides) are some links you might want to follow:
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FCC Chairman Kevin J. Martin is forging ahead in his bid to truly serve the owners of the large media conglomerates; consumer groups are pushing back. I have no idea if he’ll succeed…
Copyright
The MPAA and the RIAA get what they pay for
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- Tuesday 13th November 2007
Corporate schmuckery looms quite large in one of the Democrat’s latest congressional initiatives: institutions of higher learning must pay the RIAA/MPAA blanket fees, or Democratic lawmakers will take away all federal funding from students; including those who don’t own computers.
From CNET News.com:
New federal legislation says universities must agree to provide not just deterrents but…
Music & Sound
The King Of Digging
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- Friday 9th November 2007
Over at Ace Lounge, they’ve dug up a story about the real King of Digging.
Wonderful as he is, it ain’t Muro; it’s Bill Schurk, a librarian in Ohio who’s built a collection with 700,000 recordings.
Step back.
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Kristin Tuttle, 36, and one of Schurk’s three children, said there was always music in the house growing up and it was sometimes hard to get her dad to turn it…
Politics
What would happen if torture was, um, torture?
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- Thursday 8th November 2007
Editor & Publisher has an excellent column by Joe Galloway, a Bronze Star medal winner and a journalist 40 years ago in Vietnam.
Galloway writes about witnessing waterboarding, and muses on why the Republican scum are so determined to pervert logic and make medieval torture seem justified:
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“The president, Vice President Dick Cheney, and their cronies and legal mouthpieces such as…
Politics
Only slightly more subtle than Fox News (updated with a sense of embarassment)
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- Wednesday 7th November 2007
The Washington Post today features a story about Dennis Kucinich’s attempt to start impeachment proceedings against VP Dick Cheney.
The Republicans and the Democrats are engaging in some sort of parliamentary ballet about this measure; it’s a foregone conclusion that it won’t play, but the Republicans are trying to embarass the Democrats by actually debating it in public.
While I think…
Politics
Video analysis by my paranoid self (file under propaganda)
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- Tuesday 6th November 2007
While I was away, Jon Stewart posted a clip from The Daily Show dealing loosely with the California wildfires, and media coverage thereof. It’s quite funny:
Arnold Schwarznegger is quite a schmuck, no?
However, I would draw your attention to one particular piece of the video – the clip from Fox News “linking” the wildfires to Al Qaeda (about 2 minutes in). It’s typical Fox BS; some…
