Valenti is GONE.....

Pirates, drink rum with me!

Jack Valenti Dead at 85

So if there is a pilot swearing in the terminal, it's best to leave him to his own lest your flight get cancelled, wiseass.

Flight canceled after pilot curses at passengers - CNN.com

I missed this when it happened, but apparently the two guys who put up the ATHF figures in Boston were arrested and gave a press conference after the fact where they refused to talk about anything except hair.

I love it when the media is warped back on itself.

YouTube - Boston Ad Prank Suspects Talk About ... Hair

Well, I'm glad someone cleared that up for me.

For Social Networks, 2007 is about MONEY

I thought most companies had more corporate intelligence than this, but apparently I was wrong. Yes, they really did make The Wookie Argument.

Cell Phone Unlocking Supports Terrorism

SCO is teh f00k3d.

Groklaw - Kimball Rules: SCO's Objections Denied! Wells's Order Affirmed - Novell Goes 1st.

FORT WORTH, Texas — RadioShack Corp. notified about 400 workers by e-mail that they were being dismissed immediately as part of planned job cuts.

Wow, that's cutting costs to the bone -- even in HR.

AJC: Radio Shack Fires By Email

Patents are the original Open-Source.

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story?id=6066617

Clear Channel, sensing blood in the water, has bought the patent for Concert Recording from DiscLive. This patent in and of itself is interesting since it apparently shows no acknoledgement of prior art, of which there are literally thousands of examples.

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?TERM1=6614729&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&r=0&l=50&f=S&d=PALL

Manditory inflamitory quote from ClearChannel:

] "We want to be artist-friendly," says Steve Simon, a Clear Channel executive vice president and the director of Instant Live. "But it is a business, and it's not going to be 'we have the patent, now everybody can use it for free.'"

Other links:

http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2004/05.html#25
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/05/26/0224252.shtml
http://p2pnet.net/story/1527

I was just beginning to think that there was something worth buying in music, but this may spell the end to bootlegs, proving once again that they aren't happy until you're paying for every step you make.