Happy As Kings

Golden State: Golden State Column: Whose Internet is it?

'It all' starts out 'smooth,' and then grows into a fractal garden.

Link: Golden State: Golden State Column: Whose Internet is it?.

The link to "Who Owns Your CD/DVD Collection?" is paradoxically enervatingly fascinating.

How long before someone tries to own the air and levy charges for each breath (and greenhouse debits for CO2 emission), and the sunlight warming your house in winter is taxed as income? 

(credit the first thought to Robert Heinlein [The Moon is a Harsh Mistress], and the second to an elist comment yesterday about how public education should be taxed as income)

Conductor?  I'd like to get off now.

Turn it off

I knew I was right.  Turning off computers not-in-use is a point of view I've maintained for some time, along with the opinion about shutting off automobiles if they aren't moving in any particular direction.

Listen to the old homilies such as "Waste not, want not."

(No, I'm not a curmudgeon because I'm getting old.  I've always been this way.)

BugMeNot.com

Link: BugMeNot.com.

"Bypass Compulsory Web Registration:" Keep spam at bay.

Comment spam

Comment spam showed up, so all the comments are now moderated.  That means I'll see them before they show up on the blog, and I have to give them my USDA stamp of approval before they see the light of day.

The management regrets any inconvenience this may cause.

Raised By Chaffinches: Clean up now

Link: Raised By Chaffinches: Clean up now.

Go ahead, click on it.  It isn't one of those cruel sites that scream and scare you.  Promise.  (I hate practical jokes)