Overdrive recently announced that they'll begin offering DRM-less MP3s.

I'm not completely opposed to DRM in principle, but in practice it's not even ready for beta. Every time I switch between streaming movies from Netflix and downloading audio books from Overdrive, I have to go in and trash DRM files on my system. It took quite an effort to get Overdrive books to play on my Palm Centro. (And of course they won't play at all on any of our iPods.)

So do you go right to six stars if you shoot photos of the buildings?

I saw her twice in the late 80s at The Metroplex in Atlanta, during the Maggots and Ultrafly tours. She definitely lived "do what I wanna do".

Obviously not a vi user.

Maybe there's some fingernail polish remover involved.

Yeah, it reminds me of the Orikaso plastic origami backpacking tableware or the SAM Split, which is a thin sheet of aluminum between foam rubber.

There's more to the Illuminati: New World Order cards than just the twin towers card. The Pentagon card has a smoking fireball in the center of the building. Kinda spooky. Fnord.

I'm not in his class, but that's not too different from how I used to work when I did something swooshy or curvy in Photoshop. Lots of intersecting and subtracting of ovals. Now I try to do everything in bezier curves in case I need to go back and make little tweaks.

Something neat I noticed the last time we were there is that we own things that are props in 3 of the 4 sets.

We have the same sewing machine that's in act 2, the same Bakelite radio that's in act 3 (except ours is brown, not white), and in act 4 it's an electric pencil sharpener.

See? I told Marc that Netscape was a dumb idea. Who'd pay for it when Mosiac was already available for free?

Cool. We saw it in November. If they hadn't cut the nights out of the video, we might have been in a frame or two. I shot a couple quick pics (kids were exhausted) but didn't get one of the sign.

http://flickr.com/photos/jonadair/1947715246/in/set-72157603085888992/

I'm surprised nobody mentioned Mike Relm's Immigrant Song:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2998088060843684013

I just saw this faux Zen Mount Fuji Amazing Garden in a Bits and Pieces catalog.

We had one like that stuck for a few days on the side of the Veteran's Expressway in Tampa a couple years ago. After the first night, I noticed that someone tagged it with "If you lived here, you'd be home by now."

One of my favorite MRI stories, from an old Dilbert newsletter:

My favorite prank report from the field:

"A friend of mine who works with MRI machines bet the medical salesman that he could not toss his wallet through the opening in the MRI magnet -- the one the patients' head goes through -- without having the wallet touch the sides.

The Induhvidual's wallet included all of his credit cards, which were instantly demagnetized in the process.

Although it cost my friend a soda, the snicker factor made it well worth the price."