It’s here.
Today is the day we can all be Ninjas.
Click PLAY or watch the video on YouTube.
Category: humour
DRM (digital rights management) is doomed
The most influential pundit on the internet is Michael Arrington.
He is all about the money.
And when Michael Arrington says that DRM is dying, companies had better start looking for the next strategy of protecting their market share. Frustrating customers is the best way of losing them to some product without DRM.
“… the age of DRM is coming to an end. Startups that embrace the DRM world are going to have a very hard time finding success.”
I’ll go further.
I’m just about to switch from watching video on iTunes (free, proprietary software from Apple) to Democracy (free, non-proprietary, open source software). Apple’s huge lead in video distribution technology has already been surpassed by people who worked on Democracy for fun, part-time.
Long term I can’t see how commercial proprietary software can compete with open source. The inefficiencies inherent in any company stifle progress enough not to be able to stay ahead of an open source competitor which is available for FREE.
For another example, Microsoft Internet Explorer will continue to lose market share to open source Firefox in the browser market.
Even Google, who got big by copying principles of the open source movement, is doomed long-term.
Looking forward to see if I’m right.
I want to join Lovely
The Kingdom of Lovely (official website) is a micronation which claims the flat of its creator and ruler King Danny as its domain.
… In July 2006 Lovely had 421 citizens registered on its website, although everyone who signs up to view the forum is (knowingly) included as a citizen.
The Latin motto is Die dulci freure (sic – the correct Latin is fruere), meaning “Have a nice day”.
Lovely (micronation) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
King Danny petitioning the U.N.
plane crashes on Dana’s street in Vegas!
… pilot and passengers escaped unharmed …
reviewjournal.com — News – Small plane crashes on street
I expect they were more house guests looking to “crash a few days” with Dana and Fred.
Mooches from out-of-town will do anything to get a freebie.
George and Rich – out on the town
Seems these two are in some sort of venue of ill repute.
Blame Katrina.
music video – Canadian Idiot
I love the Weird Al Yankovic take on the song American Idiot by Green Day.
As usual, Weird Al is right on the money with this parody.
Some kids made their own video to the song. Click PLAY or watch the clip on YouTube.
But who do we have to thank for this homemade video? It is credited to Phil McCracken.
if anything unifies “the rest of Canada”
… it’s being irked at Toronto thinking itself the centre of the universe.
larger version on flickr – by ryandt33
Thanks Warren and BoingBoing
world’s longest surf board
Brazilian surfer Rico de Souza set a world record for the longest ever board, 8.05m (26.4ft).
the beautiful Mélissa Theuriau
I am always impressed by the number of unexpected things you find on YouTube.
Here some (undoubtedly single) guy edited a video homage to French newsreader Mélissa Theuriau.
Click PLAY to see the object of worship or watch Mélissa on YouTube.
Mélissa Theuriau (b. July 18, 1978, in Échirolles, suburb of the south of Grenoble) made her breakthrough as a French newscaster and travel show host for LCI, the news channel for TF1.
… the French paparazzi weekly Voici featured pictures of Mélissa topless at the beach.
In June 2006, M6, another French television channel, announced her arrival for September as editor in chief and presenter of Zone interdite, a weekly magazine show featuring investigative reporting.
Rick McCharles 