Notes

Shocking — an IP lawyer with a sense of humor: Blogger gets ‘don’t cease-and-desist’ letter for his Second Life satire

Best headline of the month: The purloined sirloin. Why Americans love to shoplift meat. – By Brendan I. Koerner – Slate Magazine (thanks Scot) Also, 25 million of us have stolen movies.

Steve Martin, Tony Trischka, and Bela Fleck together on NPR. For banjo fans, this is like the harmonic convergence: NPR : Tony Trischka Has More Than One Banjo on His Knee

Thank god for telecom deregulation, eh? YouTube – Stephen Colbert explains the whole AT&T thing!

Pogue pens new words to the Village People tune “YMCA”: Ode to the R.I.A.A.

Can I hear you say RAMEN?

Violet Blue: “the city is filthy with user-friendly Mac ass” – hilarious: How to Seduce a Mac Geek / A Macworld Sex Guide

Apparently babies have five distinguishable cries, each with a different meaning. Here’s the decoder: Why is my newborn baby crying?

After telling George Bush to go to hell, Hugo Chavez is doing the same thing to Bill Gates: Technology Review: Linux for the People

Pete Mortensen is right — if Apple’s phone is to succeed, it will be on the strength of its ability to sync easily with your computer: Cult of Mac

VCs Todd Dagres and David Hornik in a thoughtful debate: Is ‘Web 2.0’ Another Bubble? – WSJ.com

From a review of Wikinomics on Slashdot: a snapshot of BoingBoing’s home page counted 11788 words, of which 6472 were between “blockquote” tags — so more than 50% of the page is borrowed text. Slashdot | Wikinomics