You know it's true. How many televisions do you have? Do you even know? How many channels do you get? Do your kids refuse to watch black-and-white programs? No one had a VCR in 1970. Now 240 million of us do, but VCRs are history now that Wal-Mart is selling DVD players for $29.

Fortune.com - Value Driven - Admit It: You, Too, Are Paris Hilton

] When the final part of The Lord of the Rings trilogy
] opens next week, it will ratchet the franchise's
] box-office receipts up to several billion dollars - and
] mark the final triumph of all things geeky over what we
] used to think of as cool. Xan Brooks investigates how it
] happened

We are all nerds now

Rattle wrote:
] MemeStreams is a mini Google bomb for the people. Take your
] MemeStream title for instance.. Because if the way our pages
] interlink, if you are one of the people on this system who has
] used it actively for a long time and is highly recommended
] (yes, it matters, alot), you can pretty much pick your Google
] key words..

Very interesting...

RE: Google Time Bomb - Will Weblogs blow up the world's favorite search engine? - Microcontent News, a Corante.com Microblog

Get a quick idea of what is going on in the world by simply looking at pictures pulled from top stories...

News-Images.com

] She stated that the existing law only covers analog, not
] digital cable theft--giving the impression that, without
] this new bill, digital cable theft is legal.

Read about the obvious lies that various lobbying organizations told the Tennessee legislature yesterday.

U: If you really want to get your blood boiling wait until you get to the place where these mother fuckers tell the legislature that having wifi access points in your home helps terrorists!

10/28/2003 Joint Committee Hearing Notes - Tennessee Digital Freedom Network

] PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) -- Cheap Trick Avenue
] instead of Boardwalk? Hernando's Chop Shop instead of
] Reading Railroad?
]
] Black leaders are outraged over a new board game called
] "Ghettopoly" that has "playas" acting like pimps and game
] cards reading, "You got yo whole neighborhood addicted to
] crack. Collect $50."

CNN.com - 'Ghettopoly' game causes outrage - Oct. 9, 2003

] The music industry has turned its big legal guns on
] Internet music-swappers - including a 12-year-old
] New York City girl who thought downloading songs was fun.
]
] Brianna LaHara said she was frightened to learn she was
] among the hundreds of people sued yesterday by giant
] music companies in federal courts around the country.

FOXNews.com - Top Stories - 12-Year-Old Sued for Music Downloading

] "The newly proposed 'amnesty' is clearly a strategy by
] the industry to address some of the concerns I and others
] have had in this matter," Coleman said in a statement.
] "But, it raises new issues that require careful analysis
] and review. An amnesty that could involve millions of
] kids submitting and signing legal documents that plead
] themselves guilty to the Recording Industry Association
] of America may not be the best approach to achieving a
] balance between protecting copyright laws and punishing
] those who violate those laws."

Senator Cautions Those Tempted By RIAA Amnesty Offer

] The denizens of Open Cultures want their connected
] collectivism to liberate the world from regulations,
] markets, and intellectual property. But what if victory
] only clears the way for corruption of their beloved
] culture?

yes, I admit... things can go too far. But it's like anything else in life. It requires education and responsibility.

Freedom's Dark Side

] Little by little, we're turning into a planet of techies.
]
] Which should come as no surprise. It has happened before.
] Time and again, attractive new technologies have trickled
] out of the labs and into homes and offices, forcing
] ordinary users to develop skills that once would have
] seemed far too advanced for them. Early automobiles were
] so unreliable that drivers carried tool kits and learned
]
]
]
] to fix the balky machines. Early radio sets were
] handbuilt by avid hobbyists. "This is all part of a
] fairly predictable pattern," said Harvard Business School
] professor Debora Spar, author of "Ruling the Waves,"

We're all geeks now