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This month: 9 entries.

http://www.greytuesday.org/ The Grey Album is actually pretty damn good, although I’m sure it’s naughtiness is part of its charm. However, the existence of one or more pieces of good-though-illegal art is not, in itself, an argument for invalidating the laws that made them illegal in the first place. The greytuesday site argues that the Grey Album should be legal. And perhaps it should. But what should not? What is sampling? What is music? If I lay a few tom toms over the White Album is that sampling? Is adding background music to a recorded speech sampling? I can’t support a movement to reform music law before knowing what the desired reforms actually are: and the greytuesday site has precious little to say about this. 23:58

http://slate.msn.com/id/2095945/ The differences and similarities between what San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom and Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore have done (and their respective attorneys general). 23:26

http://slate.msn.com/id/2095809/ Font news: the U.S. State Department changes it’s font from Courier to Times New Roman. 23:21

http://slate.msn.com/id/2095865/ Roy Moore: a third-party candidate who’ll take votes from oBush? 23:19

http://slate.msn.com/id/2095756/ The decline of Colin Powell. 05:20

http://chronicle.com/free/v50/i24/24b01301.htm On adjectives. (Piece misses my favourite line about the (mis)use of adjectives: “Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjective hasn’t been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tight place.”—The Elements of Style). 00:12

http://international.eonline.com/news/items/0,1799,13515,
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http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/wdc/22822390.html “My cat is Paranoid Scitzophrenic. He is Biploar. Manic Depressive.” (Another crazy craigslist animal: a fish.) 04:19

http://slate.msn.com/id/2094872/ President Bush has asked that America spend about as much on the military next year as it did in 1968. I’d like to know the percentage-of-GDP comparison but I’m in St Petersburg right now and can’t be bothered checking… I’m guessing it’s not quite so exciting, though. Maybe 5% then, 3% now? 05:24