Better than I could have said it myself…

Well, that shouldn’t be a surprise, but I do keep harping on the disgraceful state of the music industry and how they have twisted and perverted intellectual property law into a cash cow all the while turning the artists themselves into virtual indentured servants.

But when I ran across this blog article the other day while reading an article about the RIAA vs. Jammie, I just had to save it to post here. I hope you enjoy it, as it’s a pretty comprehensive look at what is wrong with Big Music.

When Pigs Fly: The Death of Oink, the Birth of Dissent, and a Brief History of Record Industry Suicide.

Internet Fad of the Week

Tom is my Friend

I got a friend request from a Shy Guy Shawn on MySpace today. I got a kick out of it right away because the whole site was nutty. So nutty, you had to like it.

But when I saw the friends list made of all Toms, at first I thought it was another joke. I thought he had doctored Tom’s picture and made a fake friends list. So I did what naturally would come next – I clicked on one of them.

To my surprise, it went to another MySpace page for the variant Tom. I looked in that friends list and it was even more Toms. The joke just got even better. Continue Reading…

Why we love Dell Computers, really….

Books translated to Morse Code

From the Wall Street Journal:

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