You hear a great tune on Internet radio or at a friend’s house and want to download it. You look for a legal service that carries it, but the only one you find is overpriced and is hampered by anti-copying technology and other restrictions so that it will only play on one kind of player [...]

Last night Bradenton city officials met with Village of the Arts residents and gallery owners for the first time in three years. The local paper ran a story about that meeting this morning that got the gist of it right, but didn’t come to grips with the main issue: that the Village of the Arts [...]

“Overpopulation” is a word we don’t hear much these days. Once upon a time (like 30 or 40 years ago) we worried that too many people would put too much strain on our planet’s resources, and a whole lot of us thought it might be a good idea to limit populations or even to reduce [...]

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Shot from the N. side of I-75 about 2 miles west of Naples, Florida. Cut to 30 seconds because there’s really not that much *to* a wildfire; it just goes on and on. (I have the original tape — a few minutes more of the same — in case anyone is interested.) Note [...]

This hasn’t spread widely beyond Net-oriented media yet, but the independently-created Barack Obama MySpace page was taken away by the official Obama campaign from the man who built it — and who pumped it up to over 160,000 friends. The guy seems to have cooperated with the official campaigners all the way, right [...]