Musicians Need Recording Studios? -Well, Open Studios is a nonprofit org that assists communities to build and operate community-based recording studios. These facilities provide communities with free recording services, while replenishing our Public Domain. Who benefits? Schools, churches, civic groups, musicians and artists. So check it out.
9:52:47 PM
The Pledge Of Allegiance Case Takes A Weird Turn - The Associated Press reports in an article that the whole case is basically a fraud. via [How Appealing]. Oops!
9:39:01 PM
Retaliation, perhaps? - The videographer of the Los Angeles police beating was arrested as he waited to be interviewed by CNN. And read this phone transcript. via [InstaPundit]
9:32:13 PM
Do the crime and do the time - in this case, one stolen can of beer equals six months in the slammer.
8:35:24 PM
One Nation "Under God" - boy do I agree with this article on the now-infamous Pledge case. These sorts of controversial rulings seem to confuse people about what it is that judges are supposed to do. Charlie Parker was a great jazz musician, but his keenest skills would not have served him well as a judge. Judges are supposed to follow the law. Improvisation and guesswork are frowned upon, as well they should be. Same with pandering to the ill-informed expectations of public opinion.
2:27:33 PM
CEO's on Trial? - Well Scott Adams is ready to serve on the jury.
The creator of Dilbert, and the author of one of the Greatest Books I Have Ever Read, is ready to serve on a jury to decided the fate of the CEOs of the big bad companies. But he has mixed feelings, as this excerpt from his N.Y. Times article suggests:
"The typical C.E.O. legal defense — and it's a good one — is to place the blame on plain old massive incompetence, not on evil. If I end up on the jury for one of those trials, I'll be torn. On the one hand, I'm predisposed to believing that executives are indeed clueless. But on the other, I'm enough of a weasel to vote guilty just to watch a C.E.O. cry. I lost a lot of money on Enron, Tyco and WorldCom. (Yes, I owned stock in all three.) So I might enjoy being a juror on one of those cases. I might even volunteer. And when I sign in to the jury room each morning, I'll steal the pen, because frankly, I deserve it."
I think he deserves more than a pen. And seriously, his book -- God's Debris -- is a very thought provoking book (no humor in it whatsoever). And definitely one of the best books I have ever read.
1:56:45 PM
Rick references a poem entitled "One Train May Hide Another", based on a reference to a sign in the Kenyan desert that puzzled the poem's author. Rick says he is not poetry maven, and then concludes that for him "it's the line 'one idea may hide another' that simply rings true." Apparently, inside of a poem, Rick has found the desription of an idea about knowledge management.
More irony, anyone?
1:00:11 PM
Let us go then you and I while the spread spectrum is spread out across the sky
Change is afoot in the world of invisible waves that are governed by the High Council of Transparency Regulation (known popularly as "the FCC"). Many people are unaware of the presence of the waves that are passing through them and the buildings they work in, or of the immense legal wrangling that goes on to control these invisible waves. Recently, a yodeler appeared on the mountain top and signaled that a great decision was to be made (after, of course, a "great study"). It's all very confusing to us people living in the valley. But here is the report from one kind soul who has learned about what goes on in the High Council, and who seems to have the interests of us villagers at heart.
9:44:52 AM
