Which is sadder?

Dating Tom & Jerry cartoons by the season of "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." they're parodying, or by the space capsule that Tom sees, having been launched into orbit?

Piracy Is Progressive Taxation

Tim O'Reilly has written an excellent essay on the nature of online distribution, and makes a few stabs at predicting what will happen in the future. Predictably, the large US Music and Film production/publishing companies don't come out well.

[link: Doc Searls, thanks also to Ian Brooks for enthusing to me about it last night at a party...]

News, or propaganda?

I've never had a huge level of respect for the US news media, but reports that CNN is adding sinister music to its broadcasts kinda make my blood run cold.

[link: BoingBoing]