The original story is here. Linking to Gruber because he links to an Obama quote. This was one thing I thought Obama would nail, and this administration has completely failed us. The FCC is trying to destroy the internet.

I’m far from a supporter of too much government, but the internet is one of those world changing things that requires an exception.

Can’t wait for this movie. I contributed to the Kickstarter in a heartbeat.

Fantastic. Man I love me some Josh Charles.

Cool look at how the hotel set was constructed.

I’ve listened to this podcast and then watched the video. It was so good I had to hear it twice. I’d never heard most of these guys before, but I immediately went and followed them on Twitter and on their blogs.

Do yourself a favor. Take an hour and watch.

Good gosh this whole article. Especially love this bit…

I’ve had many occasions to observe that an individual’s position on the policy question turns out to be a flawed proxy for his or her attitude toward gays and lesbians. Gay-marriage supporters may have been more likely to be tolerant of gays. But I encountered people who’d say things like, “Look, I don’t want gays looking at me in the shower at the gym, but why should I care if they want to marry each other?” And I also encountered gay-marriage opponents who were, apart from opposing marriage equality, model parents to gay sons or daughters, exceptionally supportive to gay friends, and wonderful bosses to gay subordinates. This will seem perfectly rational to some readers and weirdly inconsistent to others. (For the latter, note that people are often weirdly inconsistent.)

Just watch the clips and enjoy Jon Stewart make Mark Emmert look like a child who doesn’t want to share.

Seriously. Where is the reality show where we just follow these two guys around.

Marco Arment:

The idea of the patent system is sold to gullible people as a necessary protector of small inventors — which is a nice fairy tale, and nothing more — and it reinforces the destructive but all-too-common fallacy that great ideas are rare, novel, unique, and immediately so valuable that simply having a great idea will suddenly cause somebody, somewhere, somehow to make you rich and you’ll never have any problems again.

We therefore value ideas above their execution, and that’s exactly how the patent system is designed, despite history showing that good execution is far more important and provides far more value to society in almost every instance regardless of who filed the first patent on the underlying idea. (Not to mention the value to society of a vibrant market of diverse, competing alternatives.)

Like most laws and policies that chiefly benefit lawyers and big business, our voters, lobbyists, and politicians will keep supporting the patent fairy tale indefinitely as the rest of us get taxed, shaken down, or bankrupted by its reality.