Tuesday Links

[yendi]

1. The Potter Puppet Pals in "The Mysterious Ticking Noise."

2. Free subscription to Wired Magazine or free subscription to TV Guide (use a spam-safe email address for any offers like these).

3. Common errors in English.

4. Green Day has released a new album under the name Foxboro Hot Tubs. It's available for free from their website.

5. If you live in the Bay Area, you can buy Tcho chocolate. You can then send it to me, if you're so inclined.

6. The ten most obnoxious hidden airplane fees

7. I can has really fucking large cheezburger?

8. Why the Kindle is exactly unlike the book-owning experience in every way. I'm still a fan of the e-book concept, but Sony's much more on-target here.

9. 23 songs that should never be covered again. I actually liked the "How Soon is Now" cover that was used for Charmed, but for the most part, I agree. I would have ranked "Hallellujah" #1, if only because it seems to be the most-covered song ever, even if everyone else insists that "Yesterday" bears that title (something I've long been skeptical about, as I've almost never enountered "Yesterday" covers, and have encountered covers of almost every other Beatles song more often).

10. Finally, the scumfuckers* at the RIAA are at it again, claiming that ripping CDs to MP3s on your own computer is illegal.

*Not a typo. RIAA employees actually stick their penises in scum as a part of their morning ritual.

Comments

[goblinpaladin.livejournal.com]

Thanks for that link about the Kindle. Interesting way of phrasing the thing.

[yendi]

No problem.

[catystorm.livejournal.com]

The RIAA needs to GDIAFF already. How, exactly, are they planning on policing that? Anyone with a .mp3 player can be served?

Did they do this when CDs first came out to people who made mix tapes? Bullllllshit.

[yendi]

No, but they're partners-in-assholedom, the MPAA, tried to nail the VCR industry.

[rubian77.livejournal.com]

Have you seen this site? (http://www.mcphee.com/categories/meat.html)

[yendi]

But of course (it's all but dedicated to me)! :-)

[stevietee.livejournal.com]

Even without the shades of 1984, I hate the fact that the Kindle will update books. This kind of garbage leads to things like Spielberg taking the guns out of E.T..

And the only reason libraries have e-books that expire is because when the publishers say "bend over," librarians grab the KY.

[rowancat.livejournal.com]

That has to be purely a nuisance suit with the RIAA hoping they get some
senile luddite judge to hear the "case".
The RIAA and their Hollywood Video equivalent are like some giant dying
beasts, lashing out at everyone and everything around them as they pass
into well deserved oblivion.

There is a link to a youtube video in the comments showing bush talking
about the music on his mp3 player,
it would be really hilarious if they went after him...

Those cheeseburgers. I saw the halfpounder? one from Fuddruckers? on a
PBS show, you would have to be able to unhinge your jaw to take a full bite out of one.

[wishiwasnt.livejournal.com]

the scumfuckers* at the RIAA are at it again, claiming that ripping CDs to MP3s on your own computer is illegal.


I don't like the RIAA either, but there's at least a decent argument that they're right on this issue.

[wishiwasnt.livejournal.com]

And by right, I mean legally correct, not that this would be a good moral or business step.

[dustyskinandall.livejournal.com]

I'm curious as to how that would be. Doesn't putting a CD you paid for yourself onto your personal mp3 player and not sharing it or charging people to listen to it qualify as "private use"?

[wishiwasnt.livejournal.com]

Doesn't putting a CD you paid for yourself onto your personal mp3 player and not sharing it or charging people to listen to it qualify as "private use"?

Yes, of course. The problem, though, is that the Copyright Act says that "the owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to . . . reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords," with no distinction between private and public use. Once you make a copy, any copy, you're technically violating the law. Obviously, there are huge barriers to enforcing it in this context, but this is what the law says.

[dustyskinandall.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I own my copyrights and not some record company...cause I am happy if people have me on their iPods.

"The only thing hollow about showbusiness is the music industry"

[wishiwasnt.livejournal.com]

That's really awesome. Things would be much better if people kept their own copyrights.

[jasmine-koran.livejournal.com]

At the corner of Bowery and Second in New York, there should be a panel of pure black granite, à la the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. At the top will be inscribed "Si Monumentum Requiris Circumspice" ("If you seek a memorial, look around"), with the names of the bands who should have never covered "Blitzkrieg Bop": Skid Row, Rob Zombie...

Aw, come on, I LOVE Rob Zombie's cover of "Blitzkrieg Bop". I think he did an awesome job with it.

[ckd]

And I like The Beautiful South's cover, though I think their "Don't Fear The Reaper" and "Livin' Thing" are better.

[bassfingers.livejournal.com]

The covers list was pretty far off the mark... Little Wing, House of the Rising Sun, Mad World, U2's "One", NiN's "Hurt" and others should have made the list over some of their other choices.

[jmfunnyface.livejournal.com]

There should be a ban on people covering Hallelujah. Someone on ONTD posted this list of everyone who has covered it: http://myoldkyhome.blogspot.com/2006/05/hallelujah.html

Jeff Buckley's version is my absolute favorite (with Rufus being second). I don't know how someone could want to cover it after him because he does it so darn well.

[thegreatjohnzo.livejournal.com]

4) im seeing a clock, weirdly set to my computer time. should i just let it load forever?