The Michael Canfield Channel

Current Affairs:Big PSP billboard displays big MS error message

Via The Huffington Post | The Blog.

Copyfight: Sterling

"The alternative is to embrace pure velocity, with or without a path to profits."

-Bruce Sterling 110.06|2005.Wired

Found Poetry

Lines Drifting Through an Open Window

    I'm going to bartending school
    And I'm going to learn to be a bartender
    Then I'm going to Iceland
    And I'm going to be a bartender there

Copyfight

Via Celebrity Pundit which I've started writing for: Corbis finds lively market for dead stars.

Books:No Names

Scott Westerfield has a wonderful (and probably even true) essay on his career in Ghostwriting.

Books:Treeware

Via Boing Boing: Jargon discovered in the comments area of John Scalzi's still lively post on ebook "piracy."

Piracy ... Arrrrr!

Slashdot | How Battlestar Galactica Killed TV

Via Slashdot | How Battlestar Galactica Killed TV. Yet another example of something's popularity (and revenue) going up after widespread free distribution. When are they (the MPAA and others) going to get it already?

Current Affairs: It's a cliche to say you've got a crush on Arianna Huffington

I have a crush on Arianna Huffingtion.
The Huffington Post.

Computers and Internet: Passwords

 

BugMeNot
is a site where you can pick-up passwords to free sites -- like many newspapers -- a lot more quickly than going through the registration process.

Books: Corpse Blossoms

   Corpse Blossoms, anthology coming in November, and including my story "Wednesday," is now available to Preorder.