DIY dying? Seriously? I am incredibly encouraged by the Maker movement _enabled_ by new electronic components and Internet information sharing that is happening today. Check out Make magazine if you want to see some of what's going on. Look at sparkfun.com or adafruit or any number of blogs. Then go out and make something.

"We seriously, urgently need an economy that is not based on growth."

Yes, I agree completely. But can anyone cite studies of how such an economy might work? What form it would take? Do we even have a clue how to think about it, much less transition to it?

As an early TiVo adopter, I stopped making appointments to watch TV and watching ads long ago. With a two tuner TiVo, I don't care what network programs what content against some other network. I couldn't tell you when or where the few shows I still watch come on. I just check "Now Playing" when I feel like watching TV.

But...what is killing this last vestige of broadcast programming for me is the ever more obnoxious crap they're putting in the lower third of the screen. It's taking more and more space, covering up more of the actual program and swooshing in and out or dribbling across the bottom of the screen.

Let's see, I'm losing market share so let's see if I can make my already crappy programming even harder to tolerate. Great business model.