June 2008

Day 1031: Kid Rock Rocks Kids

June 23, 2008

Wired: Kid Rock Boycotts iTunes, Champions P2P Atlantic Records went to their label’s Kid Rock asking him to make a PSA against illegally downloading music. His response: “Wait a second, you’ve been stealing from the artists for years. Now you want me to stand up for you?” … “ITunes takes the money, the record company [...]

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Day 1031: Rest In Raucousness, George Carlin

June 23, 2008

We lose another mensch. One of Carlin’s funniest and most poignant sketches: Tweet

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Day 1027: The Canary Sings The Same Lament In Iowa

June 19, 2008

AP: Midwest flood victims feel misled by feds “They all told us, ‘The levees are good. You can go ahead and build,’” said [Juli] Parks, who did not buy flood coverage because her bank no longer required it. “We had so much confidence in those levees.” Commentary from D: “I’ve heard that before, here. Seems [...]

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Day 1026: Dorkasm, Vol. 8395

June 18, 2008

Just read this headline as “Japanese robots join forces to compete with South Korea.” On cue, enter visions of a cardboard Seoul in cartoon flames, anime ninjas whizzing past a steel-grey background and Yoshimi and her pink robots. Tweet

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Day 1024: Floods Past, Present And Future

June 16, 2008

This past weekend’s visit to Wisconsin was tailed by an earnest and eerie soundtrack: everywhere we went, every TV channel we landed on were newspeople, chyrons and footage that screamed Flood! Flood! Flood! More rain coming! On Friday, Julie informed us that her grandmother was being evacuated from her southern Wisconsin home as were a [...]

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Day 1020: First Floods, Now Tornadoes

June 12, 2008

Today, my parents celebrate 44 years of being married. Holy cows, are the sixties that far back in our past? I called Mom and Dad this morning to, as we desis say, “wish them.” In typical Mom fashion, my mom told me to be very careful when traveling in Wisconsin this weekend and not to [...]

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Day 1019: Now I’m Really Worried About The Midwest Flooding

June 11, 2008

Bloomberg.com: U.S. Midwest Flooded as Mississippi, Cedar River Rise The National Weather Service said a total of 200 locations are flooded, and issued warnings for Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Oklahoma and Montana. The deluge in some Iowa towns reached an all-time high following days of heavy rainfall, according to the service. More rain and some storms [...]

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Day 1019: Fight The CDMCA!

June 11, 2008

Sweet ghost of Johannes Gutenberg, this is awesome! Gordon Duggan of Appropriation Art has put out a comic book about the ongoing, mostly covert efforts on the part of the Canadian government to lengthen that nation’s copyright terms (currently a moderate life-plus-fifty) and to stifle user rights. As Cory Doctorow says at BoingBoing, “this is just [...]

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June 11, 2008

“De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium” by Copernicus is on the auction block at Christie’s for about $1 million. Buy it before the crazies burn it and assert that the sun revolves around the earth. Snide commentary aside, sales like this make me cringe because, to my renaissance-driven mind, this book belongs to everyone and not snug inside a hermetically-sealed case [...]

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Day 1019: Water Water Everywhere

June 11, 2008

Hometown of compadre and VatulBlog commenter, Julie, sits in the path of the recent Midwestern rains. I-94 by Johnson Creek reopened yesterday after water from Rock River flooding left the highway. Minnesota and Iowa are being pummeled again right now and it will be Wisconsin-Illinois-Indiana’s turn to take another beating tomorrow. Adventurers that we are, [...]

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