another reason why DRM is bad…

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Wal-Mart Shutting Down DRM Server

Wal*Mart shutting down DRM server, nuking your music collection — only people who pay for music risk losing it to DRM shenanigans

First Yahoo!, now Wal-Mart. For those that don’t follow, if you’ve bought DRM-laden music from either of these folks, your music will basically be toast after they shut their servers down because if your media player can’t connect to authenticate, it won’t play. Wal-Mart’s “instructions” seem to be the same as Yahoo!’s were … burn all of your music to CDs if you want to avoid losing it. Kinda defeats downloading the MP3s in the first place, now doesn’t it???

Altogether now – “DRM only affects people who follow the law to begin with … it doesn’t actually do squat to help prevent piracy…”

Tina Fey as Sarah Palin on SNL

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I just watched Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s spoof about Sarah Palin & Hillary Clinton from SNL last week – pure comedy gold. I think I liked her response to the Bush Doctrine the best…

http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/palin-hillary-open/656281/

And while despite some idiot commentary I saw stating that SNL might not necessarily care about McCain getting elected because it would give them four years of these kinds of skits, even though Tina Fey isn’t actually on the show anymore, I wouldn’t be surprised if she ends up making a few more guest appearances between now and November if anything because I think any efforts to help the public realize how badly they can’t let this happen is worthwhile!

stupid css … thank god

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I was just about to post some really bitchy post here to say how WordPress is driving me crazy with its CSS and how it’s formatting images in my posts for my new Disney site, but before doing so, I thought to open up the main stylesheet and found the culprit that was overriding my float option for all of my post images.

Whew. That’s been pissing me off for weeks! Time to go back and remove all of my junk formatting in those posts that was trying to over-correct the stylesheet, then I deserve a break…

gross bug, take 2

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It seems that Lori’s gargantuan, ugly friend has a Southern relative…

This one was also hanging out near the door, assumingly waiting for me to leave so he could rough up the joint. Any bug people know what the fuck these things are and what can be done to keep their ugly asses away from my house and loved ones?