Metallica might not have faced a well-publicized fan backlash had the band listened to former Byrds frontman Roger McGuinn. When Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich was set to testify before Congress against file sharing back in 2000, McGuinn tells Spinner that he tried to convince Ulrich that downloads were the future.
“I talked to Lars, but he didn’t seem to get it,” says McGuinn, who presented Congress with counter testimony immediately after Metallica. “He was still firmly on the side of the record companies, thinking that people were ripping him off. My attitude was like, ‘Hey — it’s the new radio.’ You guys ought to be glad when people exploit your stuff and get it around because that means they’re going to come to your concerts and buy your merchandise, and you’ll make a lot more money that way.”…..
The current pandemic of Swine Flu has claimed less than 3,000 lives. Well… that’s still pretty bad, right? After all, that’s like a flu-caused 9/11. Then again, the ordinary flu, that gives us the sniffles every year? That one kills several hundred thousand people around the world.
The reason for the early panic is that they believed this virus was a descendant of the 1918 Spanish Flu that wiped out a jaw-dropping 50-million people. And while it was obviously not as deadly, the fear was that it would eventually mutate into something like its apocalyptic ancestor.
Also, it’s got a scary name.
It hasn’t lived up to it. Even the World Health Organization is describing this as a “moderate” outbreak. Their advice? Same as with the regular flu. Babies and old people should get vaccinated. The rest of your should wash your hands and stay away from sick people.
(via olerud)
I really need to follow this advice.
It’s so easy to tune out the crazy bloggers and Alex Jones types, screaming that the NWO is watching your every move. After all, these guys are paranoid about everything, all the time, so there’s probably nothing to it. Right?
Well, whether or not there is actually a massive room full of government operatives monitoring everything you say or type, you are being tracked. Whether it’s done in the name of theft prevention or stopping terrorism, basically nothing you do - nothing - is a secret any more.
“Now, there’s nothing wrong with dark and gritty superhero stories, we love The Dark Knight Returns andWatchmen. But when you take the humor and heart away from Spider-Man and stick him in a terrifyingly grim future that finds him heartbroken, you take away everything that attracted Spider-Man readers in the first place. And, sure, guilt has been a hallmark in the Spider-Man comics forever, but when you have a comic where Parker accidentally fucks Mary Jane to death, you’ve officially crossed the line.”
via www.citv.co.uk
Channel hopping can be a shocking thing. I mean the last thing you expect to see on TV on a Saturday morning is someone wearing a pair of underpants with a great big bulge down the front that wriggles about suggestively. Granted these y-fronts were being worn by a puppet hyena called Sniff but if anything that made it all the more shocking. The perversion was exasserbated by the hyena’s groaning and his partner Scratch asking the kiddies at home to guess what was down his underpants. According to Scratch’s clues it was long, hairy, wriggly and had sharp teeth.
Answers on a postcard to ITV’s Scratch and Sniff’s Den of Doom…
Maybe consider sending another separate postcard to media regulatory body, Ofcom.
I accidentally scratched a spot on the side of my face. It was a small unassuming thing, had no real agenda and could’ve quietly be left alone to fade away unnoticed, had it not taken my actions as a deliberate hostile attack. In retaliation it has tripled in size, gone big and red and sore and has no intentions of disappearing quietly.
