Who?

The Who Tour Dates: The Who unveils North American tour plans; liveDaily
“Pete and I are really excited to be returning to the US with some brand new music to play,” Daltrey added. “We’ll also be digging out some rarities that we’ve not played for a long time. We’re looking forward to reconnecting with our American fans and hopefully seeing some new ones coming along too.”

Some of our younger readers may remember The Who from the Hummer commercials, or perhaps remember the stink (at least around here) when Clearchannel took out “who the fuck are you” and “who the hell are you” and just shortened the song altogether.

Ah, yes, memories.

Even I’m not that old (I heard you snickering, over there on the side) and I saw them live, back before band members started dying off.   I also remember parking with my now-wife, having just about worn out a couple of Who tapes while we had wild monkey sex in the back of my Datsun.  Okay, you can snicker this time, we were both a lot smaller back then.  And apparently more flexible.

Of course, I won’t be able to see them (can’t afford $100 concert tickets right now, no matter Who is coming)

In good hands, as always

Entertaining the peasants

“A lot of trouble in the Middle East right now between Lebanon and Israel. … Last night Israel bombed the runways at Beirut’s airport, putting a stop on all flights in and out. So I’m sorry everybody, you’re just gonna have to cancel that relaxing weekend getaway to Beirut.” –Conan O’Brien

“Of course, world leaders are getting involved in the crisis right now. Earlier today Germany’s chancellor called for the attacks on Israel to stop. After hearing about it, a spokesperson for Israel said, ‘You know things are bad when Germany’s got your back’.” -Conan O’Brien

“At a joint press conference with President Bush, German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for a ‘de-escalation of Mid-East violence.’ Later, Bush called for both sides to ‘de-angrify’ and ‘de-hurt’ each other.” -Conan O’Brien

Long Vacations R Us“It’s been a very busy and somewhat disturbing day throughout the world. President Bush was overseas in Germany as events unfolded. Here is his press conference with Chancellor Angela Merkel in Germany where he wasted no time addressing the many troubling developments [on screen: Bush saying, ‘I’m looking forward to the feast you’re going to have tonight. I understand I may have the honor of slicing the pig’]. He may have the honor of slicing the pig? I’m just going to assume that is some euphemism for solving the Middle East crisis” –Jon Stewart

You gotta fight for your digital right to your own stuff

I’ve saved the transcript for a talk by Cory Doctorow here at the ol’ blog for future reference.  You can read the transcript, or if you are the impatient sort you can look at the video.  I saved the transcript in case the video link goes dark, and if you look at it it also has about a dozen links to other sites, including this awesome PDF version.

Cory Doctorow “DRM punishes honest people!” … “Without DRM, people will steal and artists won’t get paid!” … Usage of Digital Rights Management (DRM) has been hotly debated since a college student threatened to put an entire industry out of business with a little application he built in his spare time, Napster. In this transcript of a speech he gave at Microsoft’s campus, Cory explains why DRM doesn’t work, why DRM is bad for society, bad for business, bad for artists, and a bad move for Microsoft.Using Sony and Apple as examples of companies that are using DRM to *punish* consumers, he suggests Microsoft use the opportunity to once again champion users’ rights. To follow our current path, Cory argues, is to stifle innovation and contradict the purpose of American copyright law: to promote the useful arts and sciences.