I tolerate kids hot linking to my images for their myspace, hi5 and friendster pages and all that (I appreciate the fact that they dig my shit that much), but a commercial operation stealing one of my images (including the bandwidth!) for their site?

Fuck no.

Check it out, the K at the top is mine (originally posted on this very blog.)

Q107.5 – The #1 Hit Music Station! || WHBQ-FM || Memphis || Q107.5

I'm going to email them and ask them nicely to remove it. If I weren't such a nice guy it'd be all goatse all the time on the K and K show. I don't think that would play very well in Memphis… lol

Here's the hotlink in action

[edited to add]

Okay, I decided to just turn off hotlinking from that domain, but before I did I threw this up there, just for a little bit of good clean fun:

but this post is teh funny:

Being Stupid And Litigious Is No Way To Go Through Life

The liberal use of the word "Douche" in the comments is especially welcome.

"Help I'm being ROBED"

"Australian actresses are plagiarizing my quantum mechanics lecture to sell printers"

"I tried to think of a witty, ironic title for this post, but in the end, I simply couldn’t. The above title is a literal statement of fact."

Click the above for more on this humorous story. Here are the models in question:

After complaining about DRM and iTunes, I decided I really ought to put my money where my mouth is and sign up for eMusic- something I've been meaning to do for a couple of months now (they've been running promotions in Wired.)

My first album:

TTC Bâtards Sensibles

My second album:

Sangue Misto SXM

I get to give money to two groups that I have hard a hard time giving money to (I've never been able to buy anything by Neffa/Sangue Misto and had to buy a TTC album in Paris.)

How cool is that?

I just spent 20 minutes scanning anti-iPhone articles. Some of them even mention my initial concern with the device- lack of tactile feedback. I do a lot with my Treo 700 with one finger and without looking at it, which means a lot considering the places that I'm likeliest to use it- the car, the supermarket, walking across a parking lot, etc. A device that I have to look at to use is right out in a lot of those situations. Not that I was considering one anyway- the iTunes format lock-down being one reason*. Which flows nicely into the actual link:

"It's ironic that a company whose name is synonymous with "Switch" has built its entire product strategy around lock-in. The iTunes/iPhone/iPod combo is a roach-motel: customers check in, but they can't check out."

the roach motel business model

*it being a closed system being another.