You can't read it all (I'm still going to try)

NPR article which I find overwhelmingly relevant to my mindset many days - I'm an infojunkie.

Brave New World Revisited

 In Brave New World Revisited (1958), Aldous Huxley was eerily precognizant of today's media and our reaction to it:

In their propaganda today’s dictators rely for the most part on repetition, suppression and rationaliza­tion — the repetition of catchwords which they wish to be accepted as true, the suppression of facts which they wish to be ignored, the arousal and rationaliza­tion of passions which may be used in the interests of the Party or the State. As the art and science of manip­ulation come to be better understood, the dictators of the future will doubtless learn to combine these tech­niques with the non-stop distractions which, in the West, are now threatening to drown in a sea of irrele­vance the rational propaganda essential to the mainten­ance of individual liberty and the survival of demo­cratic institutions.

The quandaries of modern web development

As the browser wars begin anew, Slashdot has an interesting post on the issue. The answer is, of course, develop to standards and let the browser do what they will.

Monty Python Star Trek mashup

Found on Space 1970:

Stop time?

My stove has a button that stops time! Tremble, puny humans!

Classic essay: The Right to Read

The Right to Read by Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation chronicles the inevitable result of DRM technologies. Timely, with the recent "forced obsolescence" espoused by publisher HarperCollins.

Bravery

Live Rocket Propelled Grenade removed from soldier.

"If law fails, CIA will assassinate Assange"

Oh, the irony

Quote from Pharma Buys A Conscience:

The American Medical Association's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs is planning a $590,000 initiative to educate doctors about the ethical problems involved in accepting gifts from the drug industry. That initiative is funded by gifts from Eli Lilly and Company, GlaxoSmithKline, Inc., Pfizer, U.S. Pharmaceutical Group, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, Bayer Corporation, Procter and Gamble Company, and Wyeth-Ayerst Pharmaceutical.

Comic Sans

For all you Comic Sans haters...

Calvin And Hobbes: Fight Club

via BoingBoing.

How to make a Real Rorschach mask that changes and moves.

Fun with HTML5 and comics

Microsoft released this great demo site that shows off what you can do with HTML5. If you have a very modern browser (I got it to work in Safari 5.0.3 and Chrome 8 on a Mac, though without the background soundtrack; it's built for Internet Explorer 9 [which is still in beta]; neither Firefox 3.6 or Opera 11 seemed to work entirely), it's a pretty interesting look at where web comics might go once all browsers are up to speed.

Alice Cooper makes the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Yes, it's extremely odd that he wasn't in there years ago. He should have been a founding member, almost. But finally, after all the lobbying we've done (and not lobbying in that sleazy Washington DC way, but more like thousands of fans going "WTF" every time the nominees were announced), Alice Cooper has made it into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Hear him say thanks here.

Immigration, World Poverty and Gumballs

Immigration, World Poverty and Gumballs

Is a Digital Comic Really Yours to Own?

This is something I've posted about in various places -- I'm glad to see it getting some notice in the online comics press.

Roger Waters - The Wall Live - Pittsburgh, PA setlist - Sept. 26, 2010

• In The Flesh?
• The Thin Ice
• Another Brick In The Wall, Part 1
• The Happiest Days Of Our Lives
• Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2
• Mother
• Goodbye Blue Sky
• Empty Spaces/What Shall We Do Now?
• Young Lust
• One Of My Turns
• Don't Leave Me Now
• Another Brick In The Wall, Part 3
• The Last Few Bricks
• Goodbye Cruel World

Intermission

• Hey You
• Is There Anybody Out There?
• Nobody Home
• Vera
• Bring The Boys Back Home
• Comfortably Numb
• The Show Must Go On
• In The Flesh
• Run Like Hell
• Waiting For The Worms
• Stop
• The Trial
• Outside The Wall

Elected

Alice Cooper has been nominated for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Yes, he should have been in there years ago, but at long last, he's in the running.

Rush setlist, Allentown Fairgrounds, Aug 31, 2010

• The Spirit of Radio
• Time Stands Still
• Presto
• Stick It Out
• Workin’ Them Angels
• Leave That Thing Alone
• Faithless
• BU2B
• Free Will
• Marathon
• Subdivisions

[intermission]

• Tom Sawyer
• Red Barchetta
• YYZ
• Limelight
• Camera Eye
• Witch Hunt
• Vital Signs
• Caravan
• Love 4 Sale
• Closer to the Heart
• 2112 Overture / Temples of Syrinx
• Far Cry

Encore:

• La Villa Strangiato
• Working Man

Norah Jones setlist: August 7, 2010 at MusikFest in Bethlehem PA

1. I Wouldn't Need You
2. Tell Yer Mama
3. Light As a Feather
4. Even Though
5. Young Blood
6. It's Gonna Be
7. Chasing Pirates
8. Broken
9. What Do You Think Of Her Now
10. Sunrise
11. Waiting
12. Back To Manhattan
13. Sinkin’ Soon
14. Dauphin Island
15. Man Of The Hour
16. Don’t Know Why
17. Stuck
18. Come Away With Me

Encore:

1. Creepin In
2. Lonestar 

Thanks to the International Press Association for the setlist.

Reviews:

• Norah Jones throws intimate party with Musikfest audience as guests (Lehigh Valley Live)
• Norah Jones's Musikfest show is different, but still cool (Morning Call)