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Archive for May, 2007

Digital Music and Immigration Have the Same Problem

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

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 [...]

Why Bradenton City Government Must Support the Village of the Arts

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

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

Monday, May 21st, 2007

“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 [...]

Florida on Fire!

Thursday, May 10th, 2007

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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 [...]

Obama Falls Into Consultants’ Clutches, Screws Volunteer

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

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 [...]

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