The online Puppetry Workshop is back! I posted this on the millsworks.net main page but thought I’d include the information here as well since not everybody travels to here through there … spatially speaking.

This was promised for last January and I’m only now getting around to actually doing it. What can I say? […]

Even though it has become readily apparent to me that the blogosphere can survive quite nicely thank you very much without the likes of me dragging his sorry ass across the infromation tundra I just want to take this moment upon my return from the digital wilderness to say a hearty and profound Thank You […]

AAAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!!!!!
That’s me being calm.
My previous post was just a blatherskyte rant of raging furious frustration compounded by the fact the computer it was written on kept snapping itself off without warning. I’m better now. More calm. But still just as relentlessly outrageously screamingly fire breathing and acid spittingly pissed off with Apple […]

My power supply for my MacBook Pro just up and fucking died - that’s the white piece of crap that always falls apart when you REALLY FUCKING NEED IT!!!
Those bastards have never ever gotten their power supply shit together.
Combine that with a battery that sucks cheese through a hairy arsehole and you can start to […]

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for […]

As I said in an earlier post, the shift by music artists from record labels to their listeners is growing.
Madonna has signed a $120 million deal with L.A. based concert promotion firm Live Nation to distribute three studio albums, promote concert tours, sell merchandise and license Madonna’s name. While this is not yet the […]

Fuck you!
Sorry - my profane blogger tourettes just kicked in there.
My dear friend, Holly, sent me this report from the CBC (by way of teh Globe & Mail) on how the Department of Homeland Security wants:
Canadian airlines flying through U.S. airspace will have to hand over the personal data of everyone aboard the plane if […]

Combine my previous post on Yahoo! Music giving the finger to DRM with this bit of news and you can just smell the acrid aroma of gut twisting fear coming off the sweaty unwashed armpits of the sleazy recording industry executives.
Ars Technica reports on not just Nine Inch Nails going “free agent but also Radiohead, […]

Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing reports on a talk given by Yahoo! Music’s Ian Rogers to music recording executives where he told them flat out Yahoo! will no longer support or particpate in music with DRM.

I’m here to tell you today that I for one am no longer going to fall into this trap. If […]

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by
madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn
looking for an angry fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly
connection to […]

Finally, someone in the U.S. is talking sense.
RawStory reports that the Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson has put forward a serious alternative to Jonathan Swift’s modest proposal.

“My proposal on torture is serious,” Robinson wrote on a washingtonpost.com discussion board Sunday. “Let me know if you agree: Bush administration officials who claim the “harsh” interrogation techniques being […]

Jammie Thomas is the woman the RIAA took to court and now faces $220,000 in damages for their bogus extortion copyright infringement lawsuit.
Ms. Thomas is appealing the screwed up court decision against her and now has a web site where donations to her legal defence fund can be made through PayPal.
She’s a gutsy woman who […]

Over at Jeff Jarvis’ blog BuzzMachine, he put up a great post today on how the emergent technology of Apple’s iPod and the iPhone are changing everything for music, television and newspapers.
Jarvis writes:

In these pages, internet parent Vint Cerf wondered when television would reach its iPod moment - that is, the time when we download […]

Michael Geist spoke at the Terra Incognita, the 29th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners. He puts focus on the current U.S. agenda to create a total surveillance world.
This, from Geist’s article about the conference:

Addressing these legal shortcomings will command the privacy community’s attention for the foreseeable future; however, it was Chertoff’s […]

What can I say? I’m an OCD blogger.
Just finished our Thanksgiving dinner and I feel like an overstuffed soggy bag of jello. Fortunately we don’t have any and I’ll have to settle for pumpkin pie - after my stomach settles. In the meantime:

• UK Kid Faces Terror Charges For “Anarchist Cookbook”

This […]