Stop SOPA/PIPA

In solidarity with Wikipedia, Fark and many others, I at least offer this link:

http://www.stopthewall.us/?gclid=CP_9xvub2q0CFYUZQgod3xGInw

For just the present 24-hour period, you can see the special messages at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://www.fark.com/

https://www.google.com/

… for example …

A bit more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/18/sopa-blackout-internet-censorship_n_1211905.html

This One Rings True

Last night, we were joined by Nik, Ivi & Jordan in watching the first season of Portlandia via Netflix stream.  Highly recommended, by the way, whether you are familiar with Portland or not.  The second season starts this week.  We — speaking mainly of Nik and myself — are big Battlestar Galactica fans, so I was particularly amused by this preview clip from the upcoming second season:

You can see an extended version of this hilarity and more on the new season at http://www.ifc.com/portlandia/videos/portlandia-one-moore-episode

Slippery Skip

During the Seattlites’ recent visit, I was introducing Jared to some of my basement music servers. They are certainly nothing to look at — in fact, one is held together with duct tape — mostly resurrected from obsolete but still working pedestrian Windows and Linux machines. But I have been inspired to consider something with some aesthetic quality to inject directly into the array of upstairs audio equipment by one Jeffrey Stephenson. whose stunning computer enclosures can be at  http://slipperyskip.com,  One example, his Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired Unisonian computer case, is shown here.  Now if only I had some woodworking skills …