WTF! Patent Office grants official exclusive rights for podcasting to Volomedia

That would be like giving the exclusive patent rights for thinking to one company!

HELP EFF.org DEFEAT THIS.

EFF Tackles Bogus Podcasting Patent And we Need Your Help! Patenting podcasting? You've got to be kidding. Yet a company called Volomedia just got the Patent Office to grant them such exclusive rights. EFF and the law firm of Howrey, LLP aren't willing to just sit by and watch. This patent could threaten the vibrant community of podcasters and millions of podcast listeners. We want to put a stop to it, but we need your help.

The Volomedia patent covers "a method for providing episodic media."
It's a ridiculously broad patent, covering something that many folks
have been doing for many years. Worse, it could create a whole new
layer of ongoing costs for podcasters and their listeners.

Please head to EFF.org's link to find out how to help.

NYTimes.com > Education> Med Grow Cannabis College

At This School, It’s Marijuana in Every Class

“This state needs jobs, and we think medical marijuana can stimulate the state economy with hundreds of jobs and millions of dollars,” said Nick Tennant[.]

Med Grow Cannabis College website. Go ahead, click, I'm sure your privacy is secure.

Owl grabbing a kitten in slow motion

Owl Attacks Camera in Slow Motion - Watch more Funny Videos

Thanks for the link Mark!

After turkey dinner, here's something to do your mother wouldn't

This isn't your mother's JavaScript.

We think JavaScript is awesome. We also think browsers are awesome. Indeed, when we talk about them, we say they are the cat's meow – which is an American expression meaning AWESOME.

Go play with Chrome Experiments.
One of my fav's, Ball Droppings.

Tweet not sent to thousands of teenage girls gets VP arrested

From coverage at CNET:

What is somewhat peculiar is that a tweet was sent from Justin Bieber's account around the time of the arrest, reading: "they are not allowing me to come into the mall. if you don't leave, I and my fans will be arrested, as the police just told us."

Follow Justin Bieber on Twitter.

You don't know him! Are you kidding me?!
Check him out on YouTube.com.

Please help the SEC regulate dark pool trading

Or if you're over say, 35, do not "invest" in any stocks or mutual funds that own stocks. Instead, save your money for Las Vegas, Atlantic City or the nearest Indian Reservation.

From Financial Times:
[free subscription probably required to read entire article]

“The number of active dark pools...has tripled since 2002,” said an early SEC release on the proposed rules.

“Given this growth of dark pools, a lack of transparency could create a two-tiered market that deprives the public of information about stock prices and liquidity.”

A previous article at Financial Times urging the regulation of dark pool trading had a comment:

He said the SEC was “exploring ways” to gather information about the transactions of high-frequency traders. “The commission recognises concerns have been raised that high-frequency traders have the ability to access markets more quickly,” he said. “This ability may allow them to submit or cancel their orders faster than long-term investors, which may result in less favourable trading conditions for these investors.”

Exploring ways! This is another area of our financial system that needs simple, clear, enforceable regulation.

Contact the SEC to move from exploring ways to taking action.

2012 Trailer from SNL

It's not neutrinos from a massive solar flare that destroys earth.

new deal 2.o website

Looks like this might be a good resource for in depth info about our financial system:

We go behind the headlines to explore the questions at the heart of the economic debate, offering both short, digestible explanations of the issues as well as more in-depth discussions around the finer points of the public conversation.

Some of their reporting, opinon and analysis should help determine:

What Caused the Crisis?

Like you, we want to know how our financial system imploded and determine how we can avoid future chaos. To that end, we have assembled thought leaders, former government officials, historians and intellectuals to write an open letter to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission – a group of people recently appointed by Congress to "examine all causes, domestic and global, of the current financial and economic crisis." The letter requests the adoption of guidelines critical to the success of the investigation.

1 million wild spiders make tapestry on display at AMNH

On display at the American Museum of Natural History in NY.

A dozen more people were needed to draw the silk from the spiders with hand-powered machines, with each spider producing about 80 feet of silk filament.

Hat tip kottke.org.
At NPR.org.

Andre Agassi with Tavis Smiley was very open

A clip.



Head over to Smiley's website to watch the entire 23 minute interview. Agassi explains how he overcame his crushing depression he suffered from while winning 8 Grand Slams.

The Andre Agassi Foundation for Education.

Exercising power v. doing better work

This will be a classic quote:

An organization that wins by exercising power starts to lose the ability to win by doing better work.

From Paul Graham writing about the mistake Apple is making with their App Store re: relationship with developers.

Microsoft sponsors event for people to bring their Macs

Opps!
Link has photo of Microsoft sponsored conference where every one is using a Mac Book Pro.

Nor'Ida a week ago on Friday the 13th

2 highest tides were Thursday night, and this one Friday morning. Photo taken about 837am Friday the 13th. There was about a foot of water in our yard at the 2 highest tides. These highest tides on our street were hours after the "official" high tide. 3rd high tide of Nor'Ida, Friday afternoon, still had a couple feet of water on our sidewalk & street encircling our property.

Watch Yankees win World Series in 3 minutes & 24 seconds

Starts with fans leaving buses before game. Highlights include grounds crew, hot dog grill, popcorn machine, home runs, & dancing pitchers. Ends with fans leaving.

Watch at NYTimes.com in full screen with speakers blasting.

The game is played to Chopin’s Waltz No. 5, a score Mr. Caplin chose to complement the antique sensibility of the piece.

Be a master rock setter instead of a professional cloud manager

It's never too late to change your education or career.
Check out this master rock setter's work at FastCompany.com.

Copyright Watch, which collects & monitors copyright law worldwide, launches

Since we:

...we are all authors, publishers, and sharers of copyrighted works.

About Copyright Watch:

Our dream was to build a user-friendly resource of national copyright laws to help citizens of the world undertake comparative research.
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Finally, we hope that Copyright Watch will help document the importance of copyright to all aspects of cultural life and human freedom.

Jon Stewart v. Lou Dobbs tomorrow night

The gay illegal alien homophobic death panel crowd get's their cage match Wednesday night. Watch it live on Comedy Central. Tivoing this will be like Tivoing the Super Bowl.

Bird lover trades a view of a pelican for $1.25M 2006 Bugatti Veyron

From AP News.

Buy your own Bugatti here.

Here's some pelicans for free.

Kayak at our front door during Nor'Ida

Some one named the storm Nor'Ida. I like the name. Hated the storm and it's affects.

Here's a friend at our front door. This is not at the highest of the 3 high tides.

Note: water did not come over the Chesapeake Bay beach to our front door. It did not come over the shore at Crab Creek, nor over the banks of Pleasure House Creek. This was from our storm drains that feed into one pipe. Logical huh? You may be asking, why doesn't the City have "plugs" or some kind of engineering in the appropriate place for big storms like this? Follow this blog, and we'll explore why.

Andrew Zuckerman's film and photography work about birds is phenomenal

Andrew Zuckerman: Bird project. Spend some time here if you like/love birds. Under Photographs, be sure to check out the Andean Condor, Greater Bird-of-Paradise, Jackass Penguin, Twelve-wired Bird-of-Paradise, Wattled Currasow - really, check them all out. Under Films, check out Behind The Scenes, and Promo - Secretary. Audio is great too.

This is his official site - has audio when opened. I recommend viewing this on the largest screen possible, like your big screen TV. Under Photographs, be sure to see the Egg, Water - again, all of them.

Under Film, watch at least Wisdom - "It's about being decent." "You can't get to wonderful without getting through all right." "I think it's love." "If you're ever going to create a peaceful world, ..." Just watch this. Gain wisdom. The website for Wisdom has even more about this project. Check out Making Of > How It Was Made. "I had no experience interviewing any one before."

His movie, High Falls.