Scratching The Itch

It’s been said before, but a person’s first foray into free cul­ture of any type is often to scratch an itch. For me, my first Wikipedia edit was undo­ing van­dal­ism on the Hernando de Soto Polar page con­flat­ing him with the con­quis­ta­dor of the same name — replac­ing his actual birth date with 1500-something, etc. It’s somewhat …

Every Pop Song On the Radio

I dis­cov­ered a bit from Clay Shirky, talk­ing about how tele­vi­sion was the way post-griminess indus­trial soci­ety chose to cope with free time. Included was the bit that enough time is wasted watch­ing tele­vi­sion to pro­duce all of Wikipedia 2000 times over.

Credit Where Due

Thank you to the Sci-Fi Channel (and/or who­ever ends up own­ing them) for get­ting it and let­ting me down­load BSG off your web­site in a flash thing. Also, Scott Ian is the moth­er­fuckin’ man, though I think Baltar is very clearly sup­posed to be a Factured Fairlytales ver­sion of Jesus (the beard was the giv­away, I …

Insomnia

I’m cur­rently suf­fer­ing from putting my insom­nia to good use (so far I’ve installed Tracks), so I’ll take the time to post some ran­dom thoughts: I was bit­ten by April Fools twice today. The sec­ond time because I was too exhausted to remem­ber that it was April Fools. A life with­out hope is not wasted or …