Another fine rant on the RIAA's crusade against it's customers. Here's a snip:

...the people complaining about all the internet "thieves" are, by any reasonable measure, rapacious profiteers who have been parasitically sucking the blood out of copyrights on other people's work.

Orson Scott Card on mp3 File Sharing [Slashdot]
9:37:23 PM     comment []

This is an entirely inappropiate use of so-called Truth in Advertising laws, the end result of which is to deprive the market of the opportunity to both educate consumers and allow their choices to be validated.

It also illustrates exactly the way in which large corporate entities are subverting the American farm. Monsanto has been on my shit list for a while, but this bitching and moaning about people not using their products really takes the cake!

Sour Grapes Over Milk Labeling. Some dairies label their milk to let customers know that they do not use hormone-treated cows. Monsanto, which makes the hormone in question, says this creates a false image and hurts sales. Monsanto sues. By Kristen Philipkoski. [Wired News]
8:57:21 AM     comment []

Man, Jan over at Secular Blasphemy has been batting 1.000 lately: he dug up this fine piece from The Globe and Mail on fables of the reconstruction,from Berlin to Baghdad. I would've subtitled it "or why history is important..."
8:01:10 AM     comment []