The War of the Worlds (October 30, 1938)

Big collection of Mercury Theatre productions in MP3 format, including the famous War of the Worlds broadcast. For all your sampling and iPod needs.

Copyright on old radio shows is an extremely hazy area. Nobody seems to know who owns the rights to these broadcasts, and a good argument could be made that they're public domain...

The Mercury Theatre on the Net

] Perhaps something intense triggers it, like when there's a
] death in the family, or when you just found out your
] lover is going to break up with you. You're standing in
] the back yard and you're looking at a leaf and you see
] every vein on it. You see every detail, hear every noise,
] time just slows down and every second drips like
] molasses. Things becomes slow motion and every sense in
] your body is absorbing the moment, you're not on
] autopilot anymore.

Interview with the Flaming Carrot guy. I haven't read a lot of Flaming Carrot, but I enjoyed the stuff I saw. This interview is good...

The Comics Journal: Interviews

] Stephen Colbert, who plays a phony correspondent on the
] fake-news program "The Daily Show," is getting a real
] promotion.
]
] Comedy Central said yesterday that it was giving Mr.
] Colbert his own show: a half-hour that is expected to
] follow "The Daily Show" on weeknights and will lampoon
] those cable-news shows that are dominated by the
] personality and sensibility of a single host. Think, he
] said, of Bill O'Reilly and Chris Matthews and Sean
] Hannity.
]
] Where "The Daily Show" and its host, Jon Stewart,
] generally spoof the headlines of the day (and the anchors
] and reporters who deliver them), Mr. Colbert's program
] will send up those hosts who have become household names
] doing interviews and offering analyses each night on the
] 24-hour cable news channels. The program, which is
] expected to begin appearing on Comedy Central as soon as
] early fall, is being produced by Mr. Stewart's production
] company, Busboy Productions.

Yeah so think "the talking heads" version of the daily show...

'Daily Show' Personality Gets His Own Platform - New York Times

flynn23 wrote:
] Not really. CC license would allow you to commercialize the
] content as long as you gave proper citation.

Not to detract from your point, but I want to correct this as its a common misunderstanding. CC is not a specific license. It does not allow or disallow particular things. CC is a structured way of reserving some rights, rather then reserving all of them. The NIN license could be expressed as a CC license. So could more liberal licenses.

The CC people need to be more careful as many people think CC is the same thing as public domain. I constantly run into folks who are convinced enough about this to argue about it. (Of course, I also run into people who think they can put all rights reserved AND a gnu license on the same file, but thats another story entirely.)

RE: Boing Boing: NIN's Trent Reznor releases song as GarageBand file

This April a hacker broke through Negativland's UMN mainframe firewall and stole the final version of Negativland's top-sacred for-internal-use-only "Mashin' of the Christ" video project. Negativland prayed that their in-house project would not make it into the hands of the unsuspecting public, but we all know how hard it can be to stop those "peer to peer" criminals from illegally sharing the property of others.

And what exactly did these hackers steal from Negativland??

"The Mashin' of the Christ" was/is Negativland's top-secret-not-for-viewing video response to the number one film in America. Negativland decrypted, downloaded and mashed up the most violent religious film ever made along with over 27 other Hollywood portrayals of Jesus to create their own vision of the last moments of Christ's life... all in four minutes and 14 seconds. Is Christianity still stupid? Is Communism still good? Negativland hoped that no one would ever find out for sure.

But that hope was dashed on Easter Sunday, 2004, when the video project was stolen from Negativland's hard drive, and then, just last week, released onto P2P networks worldwide. Negativland's friends and lawyers who had seen "The Mashin' of the Christ" had strongly advised against a public release ever occuring (the "anti-circumvention" provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act says that doing this sort of decryption to make collage is illegal), but since God is said to see all secrets, only the public is left to be surprised by this unauthorized birth from Negativland. Voracious pirating of this work has spread across the Net and in the last few days high-resolution versions of "Mashin'" have even been appearing on P2P networks disguised as a complete copy of "The Passion of the Christ."

This was recommmended to me and I thought I would pass it on.

'The Mashin' of the Christ'

Trudeau has finally gotten around to addressing the passing of HST in Doonesbury. Start with the comic before the linked one and go forward.

Also, check last saturday. Its excellent.

Doonesbury - Uncle Duke's head explodes

] Public reaction to this radio show episode inspired
] Negativland to turn their idea into an actual book/CD
] release. Click the above link to listen to the segment.

Take 11 minutes and listen to this NPR segment. Its a reading of letters found inside totalled cars in a junkyard.

DEATHSENTENCES - Audio

] Eyedrum is a non-profit organization developing
] contemporary art, music and new media in its gallery
] space.

This is Eyedrum - Art Music Atlanta

My Tivo says this is playing again on the 12th of Feb!

PBS - Austin City Limits - The Pixies Live

] In the stairway, I said, "You couldn't just watch a porn
] channel?"
]
] "It's not the same," she said. "That's all packaged and
] commercial. I wanted to interview them before and after.
] I have to know -- what it's like."
]
] "Why?"
]
] She paused on the stairs, and I stopped too. The
] muscleboys, muttering, went out onto the street, and we
] were alone in the flashing green and red light.
]
] "Suze, I'm going to start the clock."
]
] Like she'd poured a bucket of ice water down my spine.
] "You're what?"
]
] "I'm going to take the treatments." She spoke quickly, as
] if afraid I'd interrupt her. "They've gotten much better
] in the past couple of years, there are basically no side
] effects. They're even making headway with infants. In
] five years, it looks like most babies won't have any
] arrestation effects at all, and -- "
]
] Tears had sprung to my eyes. "What are you talking
] about?" I cried. "Why are you talking like them? Why are
] you talking like being like us is something to be cured?"
] I punched the wall, which hurt my hand. I sat down on the
] step and cried.
]
] "Suze," Abby said. She sat down next to me and put her
] hand on my shoulder. "I love being like us -- but I want
] --"
]
] "That?" I shouted, pointing up to the top of the stairs,
] where they were grunting again. "That's what you want?
] You'd rather have that than us?"
]
] "I want everything, Suze. I want every stage of life --"
]
] "Oh, every stupid stage, as designed by stupid God, who
] also gave us death and cancer, and --"
]
] She grabbed my shoulders. "Suze, listen. I want to know
] what that up there is like. Maybe I won't like it, and
] then I won't do it. But Suze, I want to have babies."

A neat new short story of Sci-Fi released under the Creative Commons license.

Fiction: Start the Clock, by Benjamin Rosenbaum