This is pretty remarkable news.

Rock stars haven’t churned out very many Father’s Day songs, but Bruce Springsteen had a nice one on his Tunnel of Love album. Here’s “Walk Like A Man” performed in 2005. With Clarence on our minds today, this seems doubly appropriate, even though it’s a sax-free solo piano version. (I suspect a lot of sons out there will also find some powerful resonance in this line: “Well I was young and I didn’t know what to do / when I saw your best steps stolen away from you.) Here’s to all my fellow fathers; we’re all just tryin’ to walk like a man.

Cloud computing is being marketed as all kinds of sexy right now, but it comes with plenty of risks despite snazzy teevee commercials like this one announcing, “To the cloud!” like Batman exhorting Robin to the Batcave. Smarter Web Strategies details seven hidden dangers, psfk explores the dangers, Nissenbaum looks at the legal issues, and — well, you know how to Google.

“All of advertising, all public relations activities, most publishing and a very great deal of our manufacturing abilities are directed to making it easy for the human animal to sit down. That is, largely, the end we work toward. And once we have fully developed the end we go to work and try to make everybody ashamed of it.”
—Walt Kelly

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The amateurs are the ones who give their stories away, because they want to be recognized; and that”s fine, I suppose, if they want to be patsies, but then when the time comes for a publisher to pay, the well has been poisoned, and the publisher says, “Well, everybody else gave us their story. Why do you want a fee?” And I say, well, Cowboy, just because everybody else is a simp, jumped off the cliff, and paid you for the privilege, doesn’t mean I”m going do it. I”m a pro, mudduhfugguh, and you can prey on the ignorance and hayseed naivete of these hungry fish, but not me. Pay me!