I was on hold during one of my phone calls today and was pleasantly surprised to hear a Neil Young song playing on the hold music.
I’m going to end my night listening to his Decade CD, perhaps playing “Cinnamon Girl” a few hundred times as I fall asleep. 🙂
I’m reminded of the picture of awe on Beck’s face as he met Neil at MTV’s Rock the Vote in 1999. Who wouldn’t be in awe of meeting the man?
More evidence that the phone line as we know it is dead. From Dan Gillmor:
Previously, I had two phone lines into my house, each costing almost $20 a month for the dial tone plus local calls. One of those lines was split to also handle digital subscriber line (DSL) broadband data access. In addition, I paid a long-distance carrier per-minute rates and a monthly connection charge.
Today I have one phone line, split into voice and DSL services. But I also have a new box attached to the network that links my phone to the Internet.
Dan’s talking about a service called Packet 8, one that charges $20/month for advanced services like these. This is more than you can get from Bellsouth for the price. Far more.
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I was checking out the website of Edmund Scientific today at lunch. This place absolutely rules! I’ve been a fan of Edmund since I was a kid – it’s always been the ultimate place for geek toys.
Check out this roller coaster kit, for example. Or this Kick Dis air-powered puck? Where else are you gonna find this stuff?
Given a fat bank account, I’d be buying these smart toys for myself, …er, I mean Hallie, so she can learn while she’s having fun. Fun for geeks of all ages!
I’ve adjusted the weblog to make previewing your comment optional. This should help get the feedback flowing here.
If you have any other things you’d like to see here, respond with a comment to this story and I’ll see what I can do.
I also added a link to Bill Maher‘s (the Politically Incorrect guy) weblog, too. He now lives in the “Net Stops” section.
The more I think about it, the more the idea of “intellectual property” strikes me as totally innane. This is the product of the past few hundred years, taken to an extreme during the last century. The Native Americans who lived here before would probably laugh at the concept, knowing that such concepts are against the human nature of sharing. Of course, they would scoff at the idea of owning property, too, but that idea still has some life to it.
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