Not sure why, but this made me think about Mr. Gumby.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrjHKMJTh1w

Oh yeah...MY BRAIN HURTS!

I like how it is now © 201 (look at the bottom right corner of the page). Maybe it's some sort of fancy-schmancy UNIX time variant.

I think drama has more to do with the media than the government. News media give plenty attention to Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, royal weddings, etc. As long as an attention whore speaks clearly and is willing to argue some point in front of a camera, it doesn't matter if it's Julian Assange, Sarah Palin, or anyone else. The government doesn't enter into it.

Money is driven by ratings. Ratings are driven by drama.

"Roll for detect sarcasm."

/Seemed appropriate

Maybe if he lowered the prices, he might get more customers. Even though I'm in the US, I've read timesonline on occasion, but the four dollars a week is a bit too much.

The problem I see is "software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster." Try telling people with a P4 why they can't have Windows 7 running Aero and Facebook and Word and Outlook and 'The Twitter' and Yahoo and eBay and MTV and iTunes and antivirus and ZoneAlarm and Bejeweled and... and... they just won't understand. For every program that's running, it causes all the other programs to run a little slower. They'll insist they need to have all those programs running at the same time, yet they'll also complain about how slow their computer is running. Older computers with less drive space, less memory, and slower processors will have a harder time coping with newer software.

Steve Who?

Wozniak.