I can just see the business school books of the future, addressing the music industry in their chapter on "How to Commit Industry Suicide"

This is the same cemetary where my grandmother was buried several years ago...I had no idea mr. disney was there too. It's a big place, and beautiful...just wish it wasn't right next to the freeway.

Great, this post really helps me to look forward to my holiday travels. Am I on the right blog here? Is this really boing boing gadgets?

Anyone have any idea where this film is to be produced? My first guess is Laika in Portland...for some reason?

Just amazing. I can't imagine what she's lived through. It's so touching, and still so incredibly relevant to our world this very moment.... Ahh! I'm officially teary-eyed at work.

What happens to all the other stuff thats unlucky enough to be in the 600 ft between the thing and the car? I guess I'll have to read up some more on this...car taser.

@ BUD ORACLE

you know, I really can't decide how the ancient greeks would feel about the olympics today...I think their only contention would be that women are now allowed to compete/attend.

what happens in delphi should stay in delphi (albeit totally awesome)...man i felt drunk just walking around those volcanic fumes.

i love the idea of using these mythical creatures!

#1- Haha! I would've expected to see at least maybe one physician on there...but four chefs?

I agree #2, this is really an idea that someone should jump on! It would be so exciting, even as an extension of an already existing online service, like last fm or something.

@boinkboink:

Who, then, deserves the revenue generated from new media? There is no ignoring it, and it will only continue to grow. There has got to be a boiling point (like now) in which the creators of the content finally demand some kind of renegotiation and acknoledgement.

The best part of the writers strike is the fact that they are really pointing out how ridiculous all these old execs are...these old dudes probably barely understand how the culture has progressed and media has evolved since their youthful romps in the penny arcades... The trouble is, these dudes seem to be more than happy to collect the revenue from something they don't seem to understand, but they are just appalled when they are addressed on the issue and asked to share this new media revenue with its CREATORS.

In my ideal world, ten years from now there won't be any such thing as an ill informed old man executive dictacting what happens to the talent, acting only a sponge to soak up the revenue...is there really any need for these guys??? The writers may not have gotten a settlement yet but they have sure got the upper hand as far as the public is concerned.

I ride this train back and forth every day and have yet to see this, I can only hope I'll find it sometime....hilarrrrriousss!

This is quite shocking, and takes Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation to an entirely new level of horror...

I don't know about all those claims, but I have to say I've become a believer in apple cider vinegar...at least it's very helpful to control a troublesome digestive system/heartburn.

I'd like to think that most doctors would advise a patient to try these other things (excercise, more iron) before prescribing this drug, only as an absolute last resort...Does it ever work that way?

And I thought there wasn't anything they could do to make me hate them more than I already do, but then they go and propose a thing like this. I agree with those that have stated- these two issues are unrelated! This is far more unethical than some kid downloading free songs...these MAFIAA jerks are digging their own industry's grave.

This looks like fun! if you want to make a speaker to play a vinyl record (a crappy one that you don't mind scartching up) you can hold a plastic cup with a regular needle or pin stuck through the bottom gently on the record as it spins on a turntable.

its simple in principle, but a great party trick!

hurray for winsor mckay! I still remember watching Gerti the Dinosaur in intro to animation class. The movement is bizarre but ground breaking.

as a relatively new boing boing-er, i have to say i'm incredibly glad boing boing was born, and continues to become more and more awesome!

This thread is totally refreshing, it seems that for the most part people are becoming a lot more educated about this stuff.

The commoditization of music is like trying to make a science out of a dionysian art...I spent 3 semesters in music business studies realizing that i was only there because i am a musician (and had to change my major immediately), and let me tell you, it was the most insulting expreience of my life to learn about how the 'industry people' view and treat the artists...
in my opinion all the people industry complaining about lost revenues should accept their complete lack of talent and stop leeching off the creations of others.