WILL ARNETT-HUMAN GIANT SEX TAPEOn one hand, this is essentially a long commercial for a show that we’ve never actually watched. On the other hand, Will Arnett totally kills. Probably NSFW unless you’re watching with headphones.

You know how sometimes you hear an album — or even a song — for the first time, and without even realizing it, by the time it’s over, your whole perception of the world has forever been changed?

That was what hearing The Clash for the very first time did to me. It was late 1978, I was a junior in at San Joaquin Memorial High School in Fresno, California, and I pretty much liked what other white, suburban males my age liked: Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, Yes, etc.

But, something had happened: about a year before, I’d started reading rock magazines — Circus, Rolling Stone and most especially, CREEM. And those rock magazines were all buzzing to various degrees about something called “Punk Rock.” Punk seemed strange and weird, and it was very much unheard on Fresno radio. So even though the Sex Pistols had already crashed and burned on American soil, I actually hadn’t heard a note of their music.

But I had heard The Cars, and their debut album was the very first punk-associated thing I ever bought. But of course, The Cars were really “new wave,” which was a totally different head, man, so I finally took the Punk plunge with Rocket to Russia by the Ramones and Marquee Moon by Television. Those are still two of my favorite records, and they just whetted my appetite for more.

Battlestar Galactica Last SupperWith "The Wire" ending forever; "Breaking Bad" ending for now, and "Lost," — well, "Lost" is kicking all kinds of ass right now — with only a few episodes left, it’s obvious that the creators of "Battlestar Galactica" know that its believers shall look to it for salvation.

New Nine Inch Nails music live online nowWhat we kind of like about this is that there are a lot of different options available for the consumer. What you choose to do can depend on your level of fanaticism for what Trent Reznor does.

Favre RetiringEven when he was kicking your team’s ass, Favre was nearly impossible to hate, because he always played the game with such crazy relish. However, this now gives him time to bone up on his acting skills for the inevitable "There’s Something About Mary" sequel.

Ferrell sports comedy misses mark at box officeIt’s possible that people are a bit sick of Will Ferrell sports comedies. Maybe they figure that, if they keep going to them, he’ll do one for every sport in existence. And nobody wanted the Will Ferrell 4-Square Movie.

Historical Maps in Second LifeJust when you thought Second Life was over…this is really cool. And a great vision of how Second Life tools can be used for more than building slot machines and virtual hot tubs.

. . . My personal interpretation on David’s comments is that cablecos and telcos have entered into a contract with users to provide access to the “Internet”. The Internet is not a product or service developed by exclusively by the cablecos or telcos for use and enjoyment by their customers, as for example traditional cell phone service. Since the Internet is a global service with its own set of engineering principles, guidelines and procedures, implicit in providing access to the Internet is, in essence, an unwritten contract to adhere to those recognized standards such as the end2end principle. No one questions the need for traffic management, spam control and other such services, but they should be done in way that is consistent within open and transparent engineering practices that are part and parcel of the contract with the user in providing access to the global Internet.