Ron Paul Supporters Boycott News Corp.

I got this from my favorite blog, Clicked.

Ron Paul supporters have boycotted Rupert Murdoch's News Corp and called for a selloff of its stock in retaliation for FoxNews excluding Paul from their upcoming debate. Since the announcement and subsequent boycott, News Corp has lost about five percent of its value.

Why Google Will Rule the World

When you see a pigeon, what do you see? An avian pest? A cooing, molting, mobile carrier of plague and disease? Well, Google sees an invaluable natural resource and harnesses it for the good of all humanity.

Google will someday lord over us all.

RIAA to Sue Everybody and Their Cousin

I am not quite sure what the Recording Industry Association of America does. I know its a consortium of record labels. And I also know that the record labels neither create the music or own the processes to manufacture/distribute music. In my own simplified version, the record labels decide what artists will be popular and what songs will be sung, and for this they make a princely profit. Sound right?

With this large sum of money record labels can fund the RIAA, which in turn can hire high-priced lawyers who now are telling us that we can't rip our own CDs.

Under their logic, when you buy a CD and rip the songs into mp3s using iTunes or Windows Media Player or any other countless ripping program you are creating an unauthorized copy of the music.

At a going rate of $9,250 per song, a $15 CD could cost you upward of $140,000. What a deal.

Christmas Lights Go High-Tech

In two years, the needles won't be the only thing green on your christmas tree.

LEDs are appearing everywhere, from your TV to your car headlights, and this burgeoning popularity is driving costs down. They were a minority this holiday season on shelves and artificial trees, but prices are diving below the $10/strand mark. Their attractive operating costs are about 1/50 that of traditional bulbs and they last about 20,000 hours, twenty times longer than your run-of-the-mill incandescent strands. They are designed never to be replaced, so they are more durable and less likely to frustrate you when you take them out of the box every Christmas. This year LEDs took 10 percent of the market. The Daily Green, the source of that last link, can provide very good information about green products when they aren't being sanctimonious about it.

Shopping Tip:

Don't buy Christmas lights in that

sickly blue-white color. It is scary.

I am awfully bored today and I have read quite a bit about green stuff today, so I imagine I'll be writing more. However, because of how this blog is structured, you'll read those first. This note is probably a moot point, isn't it?