Straddling reality and imagination

This is brilliant - Tom Waits interviews himself.

Perhaps I was a bit too hasty

It appears that libraries will endure - even when Earth is evacuated due to some vaguely malicious but not really dangerous alien threat:



Give this video a minute - the quality is really bad at the start.

So, aside from the valuable lessons learned about the nature of library organization and the Dewey Decimal System, what have we learned? We've learned that libraries preserve the information generated by humanity, and that will never change, even if no one bothers to read it.

But, you know, we shouldn't worry, the Internet will last forever.

Right?

Did I pick the wrong profession?

Currently, I'm reading a book titled "The Dumbest Generation." OK, I know what you're thinking - this is some grouchy old shriv's take on those darn kids. Well, not quite. The author draws his arguments from a wide range of surveys and studies, one of which indicates that one in four college freshmen and one in five college seniors read exactly zero books "for personal enjoyment or academic enrichment" each year.

I hear plumbers make decent money...

Oh great, another meme

From the people who brought you LOLCATS, there's a new site out there where Americans can simultaneously satisfy their desire to make fun of celebrities and look at funny pictures on the Web.

I bring this up for no reason other than I really kind of like the Bob Dylan/Snidely Whiplash juxtaposition.

Woody Guthrie, copyright cowboy?

One of my personal heroes, Woody Guthrie, was apparently the Lawrence Lessig of his day. Guess that's what folk music is all about. That, or he wanted to defend himself from any accusations of plagiarism.