Seven Sons

Update: Check the comments below regarding TechCrunch being “full of shit.”

Damn. I liked this service. But if it turns out that Last.fm actually did hand out data then I’m out of there like shit through a goose. Not because I listened to an illegal copy of U2’s latest piece. Actually, I haven’t thought about U2 since Auchtung Baby. I didn’t even realize Bono was still alive.

I’d bag on Last.fm on principal. The principal being that the RIAA needs to find a business model that isn’t based on the same business model they started with in 1952.

As a self proclaimed geek I’m a little late to the xkcd fan-boy party. Don’t make the same mistake.

Some background for the uninitiated:

• This strip plays on an on-going Wikipedia controversy – how to make it more neutral and therefore a better reference source… allow anyone to edit any article, or give more power to a set of super-users that can edit content and lock down articles.
• “xkcd” is an unpronounceable four-letter web address chosen for the fact that it is unpronounceable and that it is a four-letter web address. There is no more to it than that.
• While most of the comics are stick drawings, the creator Randall Munroe shows off his true artistic skill in several of his comics.
• If you visit the xkcd site, hover your mouse over the comic to get a second punch line or commentary.
• Always type “xkcd” in lower-case letters please, or you’ll look like a tourist.

Now celebrate the start of your journey down the path to honorary geekdom by going to xkcd and clicking the random button a few times.

Probably superior to the original. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
features the original text of Jane Austen’s beloved novel with all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie action.”

As Mark Twain once said of Jane Austen, “it seems a great shame they allowed her to die a natural death.”