A nice shaggy dog about a shaggy bear.

Via Presentation Zen, here’s a great talk by Lawrence Lessig on the tension between creativity and copyright. It’s long, but should not be missed.

Well, it’s official. We may not see the sequel to the remake of “Herbie the Love Bug” for a few more months.
Screenwriters moved to the picket lines this morning, as last-minute negotiations between the writers’ unions and producers failed to avert a strike over payments from producers for so-called new media, among other issues.
It’s somewhat [...]

43 Folders links to a really interesting interview about our increasing inability to filter all the information in our lives, and the madness that can ultimately ensue as a result.
The original interview is good, but it’s the commentary on the 43 Folders site itself that totally nails it for me:
I think one of the emerging [...]

This story is sure to get pretty stinky.
An activist group is alleging that Quebec undercover police may have tried to instigate violence at the recent “Three Amigos” summit at Chateau Montebello. Protestors claim that three cops, who have admitted to posing as protesters, were trying to get everyone all fired up, with the ultimate hope [...]

A great roundup of why I’m glad Don Imus is unemployed.
For his sake, I hope there’s a want ad out there calling for a stupid, bigoted, racist, misongynist, old, unfunny, lazy, pathetic, hair-weave and cowboy-hat wearing, mumbling, deeply unlikeable out of touch asshole fucktard with no discernible talent.
Otherwise, I think he may need [...]

My buddy Eugene is the ultimate Transformers fan — so much so that he’s inked himself pretty much head to toe with Transformers imagery.
If you have a sec, sign up and vote for his wee movie.

So we can all stop speculating about Steve Jobs’s post calling for the end of DRM a month or so ago. He was just laying the PR groundwork for this.
The exec summary? EMI will offer DRM-free versions of their offering at the premium price of $1.29. The DRM versions will still sell at $.99.
Kudos [...]

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