The Daily Loper – October 13, 2008

Hello, It’s Dick Whitman Edition

Todays links of interest:

• Live Set Due, "Archives" Delayed
  What? Neil Young’s Archives delayed again? Color us totally and utterly not surprised.
• Mitsubishi’s $7000, 65-Inch LaserVue HDTV Reviewed: (Verdict: Lasers Are Awesome)
  Jim would like to remind everybody that Xmas is just around the corner.
• Jonas Brothers To Play Thanksgiving Halftime Show
  Wow. Totally and utterly pwned by the Super Bowl Halftime Show.
• Palin mistakes fans for protesters at Va. rally
  There really is nothing more to say.
• How Is There a Book About Sleevefacing?
  We ask this question regularly about any number of books.
• 750,000 lost jobs? The dodgy digits behind the war on piracy: Page 1
  Ars Technica makes a strong statement against the dodgiest of all dodginess: the "losses" due to digital piracy.
• In Defense of Piracy
  Lawrence Lessig on the stifling of creativity, via antiquated law.
• Mainstream News Outlets Start Linking to Other Sites
  No, seriously, this was written yesterday.
• Mike Huckabee Floats Theory of "Economic Terrorism," Other Crazy Things on Fox News
  Imagine: this man could have been the Republican nominee for President. Scary.
• Sumner Redstone forced to sell Viacom, CBS shares
  Ouch. Now it’s personal.
• Hockey mom Sarah Palin booed at hockey game.
  Well, to be fair, it was in Philly, where they booed Santa Claus. That said, Santa Claus has wayyyyyy more foreign experience, and he can see Russia from his house as well!
• Berkeley Breathed says goodbye to Opus: ‘I’m destroying the village to save it’
  Ack! Missed this in all of the economic chaos last week. This makes us almost unbearably sad. Opus — along with Bill The Cat — was one of the earliest ‘Loper icons, and remains major in the pantheon. Of course, Mr. Breathed has retired his characters before, so it’s entirely possible that they’ll be bac,
• CBS goes after Hulu by aligning with YouTube
  Sigh. While we applaud CBS for getting as many of their full-length shows out there as possible, not sure why it has to be an either/or thing, or a "going after" of Hulu.
• Republicans want pre-election economic stimulus
  Isn’t this what President Bush calls "playing politics"?
• With new "Black Ice," AC/DC turns off iTunes
  Quote of the week: "Maybe I’m just being old-fashioned, but this iTunes, God bless ‘em, it’s going to kill music if they’re not careful," lead singer Brian Johnson, 61, told Reuters.
• Kenya’s elephants send text messages to rangers
  Great. Next they’ll be using Twitter.