The Boston Globe has cut its Sunday comics down from six pages to four. 🙁
Author: DOuG pRATt
Selling the world
It’s already been 20 years since David Bowie’s catalog was on Rykodisc, a label that was started here in Massachusetts. Bowie’s album The Man Who Sold the World was 20 years old when the Rykodisc CD was released. How times flies…
Nirvana did a popular cover of The Man Who Sold the World…
… but that was long after Lulu (To Sir With Love) did her own version, way back in ’74, with Bowie producing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y1LTndlCi8
Curmudgeonly Crumb-bum
You can count on good, ol’ Robert Crumb to always find something to complain about. Here he takes exception to having his art seen framed on walls, instead of printed in a book.
There was an exhibition of Crumb art in Boston a couple of years ago. I wrote about it here.
Scareware!
Worried about security on your computer? Wondering about that link you clicked on because a warning came up? Watch this video, posted today, about a problem that’s now on millions of sites.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKI5dg1cs74
4/1
Internet bandwidth, like oil, is a precious natural resource. Once it’s gone, it’s gone, and the time to start conserving is now!
http://www.publicknowledge.org/files/docs/peak_bandwidth.pdf
Vanity Fair and balanced
Nobel Prize economist Joseph Stiglitz is ten years older than Paul Krugman, over whom Stiglitz had some influence. They’re like-minded, but as one would expect they don’t always agree on the details. In this month’s Vanity Fair, Stiglitz weighs in on the top 1% wealthiest among us Americans. Stephen Colbert had Stiglitz on his show shortly after the economic meltdown of 2008, when Krugman won his own Nobel.
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