I've just discovered a seemingly undocumented popculture reference in a Simpsons episode. It's in the 1992 ep, "New Kid on the Block." Homer goes to the "Frying Dutchman" for all-you-can-eat seafood, and when the Sea Captain boots him out, he says, "Fairly warned ye be, says I," which is, of course, part of the voice-over narration from Disneyland's Pirates of the Carribbean ("No fear have ye of evil curses? Says ye! Properly warned ye be, says I.")

Yes, I'm a giant goddamned geek. Discuss

Shop for super light, super thin, super tiny Japanese laptops and gadgets from the comfort of your big ugly American computer. Link Discuss

"A Long Island mother is fuming that JFK Airport security guards forced her to drink her own breast milk in front of other passengers before boarding a flight - to prove she wasn't carrying any dangerous fluid to wreak havoc." I feel safer! Link Discuss

Lucas sez: "Jake Feinler was an ARPAnet contributor who was responsible for the global host list before Jon Postel and before ICANN. I went looking for information on the early history of DNS and discovered that Jake was Elizabeth, a pioneer geek girl at Stanford Research Institute. Check out the (1) trademark introverted smile of nerds everywhere and (2) Soviet-style keyboard and mouse." Link Discuss (Thanks, Lucas!)

Stefan sez: "I did NOT write this list of hilarious roommate-bedevilment techniques. I just submitted it to a BBoard when I was in grad school. Looks like it stuck around." Link Discuss

But it fell off when he had an erection. Link Discuss (Thanks, G.W. Ferguson!)

Aaron sez: "Cary Stayner is on trial for the murder of three individuals in Yosemite National Park. Apparently, Stayner's defense claims his obsession with Bigfoot led him to kill a woman, her child, and the child's best friend." Link Discuss

DC's Authority comic was censored following September 11th; this page analyzes the censored panels and the often ridiculous rationale for the censorship. Link Discuss (Thanks, Jim!)

Doc Searls sums up what's wrong with the CARP royalties for Internet radio in Electrolite's discussion area:

Regular radio pays fees to ASCAP and BMI that go to composers, not to performers. And they are based on a station's revenues, not on a per-play/per-listener basis.

There is little or no copyright burden on ordinary radio. You pay nothing for what you hear on your city's KISS-FM station, and that station pays nothing except to composers. Generally they get the records for free ("for promotional puposes only" it says on the CD) from the record companies, or for a fee from some other service.

There is no equivalent between the burden placed on regular radio by current regulations and that placed on Internet radio by the CARP/LOC regulations. The burden on Internet radio -- in fees, in reporting, in every other respect, is stuff NEVER experienced by ordinary radio. If somebody ever even thought of bringing them up in Congress, the NAB and its legislative tools would squash it like a bug.

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Domino's and other pizza chains are starting to charge $1.50 for delivery in some cities, and are promising to bring this non-free-delivery reign of terror to the rest of the country. Link Discuss