Posts tagged 'youtube'

I am Time’s Person of the Year, finally

20061220Wed

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At 29, I’ve lived longer than Jimi Hedrix, James Dean, and Kurt Cobain. I had almost given up on celebrity, but then I go and get named Time Magazine’s 2006 Person of the Year. All I can say, “It’s about frickin’ time.”

The curious meme of “San Francisco Values”

20061106Mon

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The cover of Friday’s Chronicle reported a flurry of comments from GOP leadership (among which I’m including O’Reilly) on “San Francisco Values”. These three words are intended to scare voters into voting Republican, keeping SF Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi out of the Speaker position.

Crashing the copyright frat party

20061011Wed

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Copyrights are a lot like fraternities. At their core they have a good intention, but over the last 100 years things have gone awry. Now, more often that not, copyrights (like fraternities) are exclusive, abusive, and collusive. It’s time to put copyrights on double secret probation.