Check out the trailer for the upcoming Spongebob Squarepants movie. [via Kottke.org]
My friend Cali Sarah will be jumping through the roof once she hears about this.
Steve Spurrier resigns as head coach of the Washington Redskins. I really don’t know how to feel about this. I think Spurrier was a dreadful coach, and half-assed his way through 2 seasons and $10 million. However, I am sick and tired of the coaching carousel that we’ve had in Washington.
I never thought I’d see the day where I look longingly towards Philadelphoa and say “I wish my franchise looked like that.” But the Eagles, at the moment, are the epitome of what I would want in an NFL franchise. They have some of the best coaching and talent evaluation in the league. They do more with less than anybody else. The Redskins do the least with the most. It’s pathetic.
So, which skell are we going to get to coach us now? Does it matter?
Cali Sarah emailed me this poem, I thought I’d share it:
I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD
I WANDERED lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed-and gazed-but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
-William Wordsworth, 1904.
I’m going to Asia in February, and no one can stop me!
Specifically, I’m going to visit one of my best friends Chris in Singapore. Don’t expect to see me online from 2/5 to 2/22. I know it seems like a long time, but I intend to see quite a bit. I’m told you can get decent flights from Singapore to close-by places such as Thailand and Malaysia. So, without planning too much in advance (which I hate to do), the research begins!
Any tips and tricks would be greatly appreciated.
Here are some gift highlights that prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that I’m getting too old.
Of course, it bears explaining, that I asked for all of these things.
Ever since I first stumbled upon Prof. Lawrence Lessig</a>’s book The Future of Ideas, I have been keenly aware that we are living in a dangerous era, where yesterday’s laws are being superceded by today’s technologies. And this erosion in the relevance of yesterday’s laws are creating a panic within the industries who are incapable of imagining themselves in this new world. And through lawsuits (RIAA) and legislation (DMCA), these industries (music, film, etc) not only hope to stunt the growth of choice and convenience among consumers of content, but possibly even supercede their previous bounderies and ulimtately eradicate all conceptions of fair use.
Think I’m crazy? Check out what’s going on up in Ithaca. This is just a taste of the world we will all be coming to know as information becomes more digital, and we all become more connected (and trackable).
What’s the remedy? I don’t know, but the Creative Commons is a start. If you want an animated trip through some of the issues that the Creative Commons means to tackle, check out this Flash presentation. It does an amazing job of summing up what many find hard to express about the problems with the current copyright legal system.
Once you’re sold on the idea of the Creative Commons, make sure to check out Common Content, a repository of Creative Commons content.
Well, I’m back. Hope you like the new look. I’ll go into some detail about what’s new, what’s been thrown out, and what’s on the way.
Feedback is greatly appreciated. The constructive, the better, but I can handle some flames.
For those of you who don’t tilt your head when I saw “blog”, you might notice some similarities to some popular blogs (Dive Into Mark) and popular blogging software (Moveable Type).
