I guess this has been out for a while, but I just came across it today: BoingBoing's Cory Doctorow speaking to Microsoft about DRM and why it's bad.

Lessig's more complete, but this is succinct and snappy. Give it a read.

I mentioned GreaseMonkey the other day, and promised future evangelism, complete with wild-eyed predictions about how it's going to Change The Internet Forever. Well, here we go.

i'm so sorry. i can't help myself anymore. but this is weird: do you remember the creepy, washed-out woman in the background of the kidnap boat who threw the molotov cocktail on the SS lost? was she actually TINA WESSON OF SURVIVOR FAME? she is listed as a guest star on lost on imdb. and that looks a hella lot like her.

i mean, what the fuck?

UPDATE: additionally, that lost guest star page gives a few tidbits about next season; for the first episode of season 2, they list the following:

Andrea Gabriel .... Nadia
Neil Hopkins .... Liam Pace
Skye McCole Bartusiak .... Young Kate
Angus Scrimm .... Mr. Meahpares
Tina Wesson .... Alex Rousseau

tina wesson as danielle rousseau's long-missing daughter? that's gotta be incorrect. for one, they're about the same age.

additionally, we get an actress playing "young kate," who i assume will delve into even more boring backstories - maybe related to the childhood abuse that i suggested kate suffered (which possibly caused her to murder/harm somebody).

Go check out this post of Michael's, featuring an unusually totalitarian MARC poster. I'm guessing that the commissioned artist decided to have a little fun with his employers -- but that the employers either failed to notice or care is a little bit frightening.