Icy Hot Stuntaz

Icy Hot Stuntaz is the best thing since RealUltimatePower.

iTunes

Slashdot | Apple Introduces iTunes Music Store, iTunes 4, new iPod. This is big news to me, because I think the music companies are finally understanding how to do music biz online – you have to sell the mp3s, not license them.

Domo Darko

If you like Donnie Darko and Domo-Kun, you’ll love this: Domo Darko. (Via B3TA).

Creative Commons Warranties

There is a conversation going around regarding the warranties that you assert when licensing stuff under the Creative Commons License, which is becoming increasingly popular. The thing is, I’m new to the law in this area – but I get the impression that the debate is somewhat understandable. As it stands, when you license something under the CC license, you are asserting that you grant permission for others to use it under whatever terms the CC license states. You are also providing some assurance that you have the authority to do so. Did that make sense?

I think what some people want is a license from CC that says only – I won’t complain if you follow this license, but I can’t say whether or not anybody else will. It seems to me that the purpose of the CC licenses is better served with the way they work now, and shouldn’t be changed. Maybe made clearer, but not changed in meaning. If you have any thoughts, maybe you can read more at the Creative Commons Weblog: On Warranties.

Law

So I’ve been thinking about going to law school, and I thought I would start a new category for that subject – maybe to encourage me to write about it. I’m going with Judge Dredd as the first entry here because I think the movie was great. So sue me. I am the law.

Remember Krang

Remember Krang? From the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Well, I do. And one other thing: I think it is safe to assume that all human beings will one day resemble Krang. Maybe we won’t all end up evil, I’ll grant you that, but we are likely to end up as spineless globs of pink goop. You know what I’m talking about. You and I both know that Krang is too weak to suvive without his big yellow body-container to protect him. Do you want to end up having to live in the belly of a big yellow man?

Sure it all starts with glasses and crutches and hearing aids and hand lotion and soap and fake teeth and toothbrushes – but mark my words: we are sidestepping evolution! We are flying in the face of all that is Darwin. Can’t you see that? How are we supposed to evolve as organisms when we help the weak to live? How can we evolve when the weakest of our people continue to procreate? When we put on glasses so that we may see better – and not be hit by busses and MACK trucks – we are inviting Krang into our hearts and minds. I mean – look at babies. I mean it. Take a good long look at a little baby, and then take a good long look at Krang. You see what I’m talking about now, huh? It is clear as day. One day we will all end up looking like Krang. And I wouldn’t put it past us to be evil, too. Some people might even say we are already an evil plague that infects this world like so much poison.

I am the Warlord Krang, wrongfully exiled from my homeworld for crimes that I did not commit, despite what the evidence and two million witnesses might say! I was framed! Since my unlawful and unjust exile to Dimension X, I have been attempting to prove my innocence so that I may rejoin my people and serve them as a proper Warlord would… by beating them into submission and forcing them to pledge allegiance to me! Bwah hah hah hah!!!

Now, is that what you want to end up as? An evil glob of pink goop?