You may have heard about Sony BMG's rootkit misadventure. They settled the suit in Canada and recently settled in the US.

The gist here is that if you bought a CD on this list, you're entitled to some part of the settlement (in this case, downloads of MP3s of the albums and, potentially, a cash payment.

The list isn't exactly a goldmine, but I know In Your Honor is on the list (and is the reason I just went through that whole process), and there are a few others that people who might read this may have purchased. Just thought I'd throw it out there.

(Actually, I'm a little ticked to find out that I unluckily bought an album involved in this bullshit. To anyone I loaned that album to, if you popped it in a Windows machine, I apologize.)

in this month's BEAT ROUTE magazine:

Champion City Records interview

Hills Like White Elephants interview

DON'T FORGET, THIS FRIDAY IS THE CHAMPION CITY RECORDS SHOWCASE/DESIDERATA CD RELEASE SHOW!!! every active artist on the Champ roster is going to be playing, so come check out what we've been up to

The gates of Auschwitz were not opened with peace talks. Holland was not liberated by peacekeepers and fascism was not defeated with a deft pen. Time and time again men and women in uniform have laid down their lives in just causes and in an effort to free others from oppression.

Sorry, I edited my hosts file...it turns out that snap.com is on the bad list so I can't even load their website. When I noticed that the feature went live for my page I put off reading more about it. I didn't activate it though.

I think I'm with the group that was mildly entertained by the Snap Preview Anywhere feature. I was indifferent as to whether I wanted to deactivate it or not. But, now that you have brought my attention to the matter I've deactivated the Snap feature on my blog because I agree that it hampers accessibility.

I don't like being tooled by businesses much either, but seeing as how I am disabling the feature now rather than reacting to it at the time it was introduced to my blog says enough of how conscientious I am.

(This doesn't really fit as a comment anywhere on your wordpress, Percy, but it's kind of related to that site in general, so I'll just post it here, seeing as you're likely to read it here.)

P, have you noticed a lot of people down on the Snap Preview Anywhere thing that's now on your blog? In the past couple of days, I've stumbled upon someone declaring a eureka moment upon finding a way to deactivate the preview on Snap.com's FAQ. And then there was this link on digg with a significant number of disgruntled digg users complaining about the preview popup.

Is this purely a Wordpress thing, or was it an option you activated? What are your thoughts on the feature. Personally, I could take it or leave it, but I'm curious about how you feel about it.

It's not America's Army.

Jere knows.

For those interested this is a passage from Issac Asimov's story "The last question"

More info here

Matter and energy had ended and with it space and time. Even AC existed only for the sake of the one last question that it had never answered from the time a half-drunken computer [technician] ten trillion years before had asked the question of a computer that was to AC far less than was a man to Man.

All other questions had been answered, and until this last question was answered also, AC might not release his consciousness.

All collected data had come to a final end. Nothing was left to be collected.

But all collected data had yet to be completely correlated and put together in all possible relationships.

A timeless interval was spent in doing that.

And it came to pass that AC learned how to reverse the direction of entropy.

But there was now no man to whom AC might give the answer of the last question. No matter. The answer -- by demonstration -- would take care of that, too.

For another timeless interval, AC thought how best to do this. Carefully, AC organized the program.

The consciousness of AC encompassed all of what had once been a Universe and brooded over what was now Chaos. Step by step, it must be done.

And AC said, "LET THERE BE LIGHT!"

And there was light --

America's Army is the only one that comes to mind.

You're never gonna catch me... you're wasting your time... forget about it... see y'all next year!