Yearly Archives: 2010

Not So Calm about CALM

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I have been as annoyed as anyone else by the abrupt decibel increase when a television program rolls over to a commercial break.
However, that this is has become a federal issue; something that the bright people in congress have spent time on is, well, ridiculous:

Finally, Congress passes a piece of legislation that citizens on both the right and left side of the political spectrum can get behind. Late yesterday, Congress approved the CALM (Commercial Advertising Loudness Mitigation) Act, which “requires TV advertisers to ensure their ads don’t play at a volume louder than regular TV programming.” The new bill requires ad makers to use “industry technology” to prevent the volume annoyance from occurring.

No, I can not get behind this legislation.
senator whitehouse it is not the job of congress to eliminate minor annoyances of everyday life.
The bill as passed calls out commercial advertisements with no mention of those most annoying of all commercials: the political ones.
So, again, no from where I sit on the political spectrum…no support forthcoming.

Friday Ark #321

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We’ll post links to sites that have Friday (plus or minus a few days) photos of their chosen animals (photoshops at our discretion and humans only in supporting roles). Watch the Exception category for rocks, beer, coffee cups, and….?

Visit all the boarders, Link to the Ark and check back for updates through Sunday afternoon!

You can board the Friday Ark by submitting your post here, leaving a comment or a trackback to this post or emailing fridayark AT themodulator.org. NOTE: Trackbacks seem to broken right now.

You can find previous editions at the not quite up to date Arkives page.

Cats

Birds

Other Vertebrates

  • The Wild Photographer: Bull Moose
  • Evenstar Art: horse power
  • The Skoog Farm Journal: Horses, Dogs, and Cats
  • Goat Berries: Goats in the tower
  • A Houseful of Rabbits: “And This Chart here …. Winston
  • Throwback At Trapper Creek: Jane is A1/A2
  • Earth, Wind & Water: …fairly standard Mugger Crocodile (Crocodylus palustris) boarded 12/4
  • The Life and Times of Bunnies: Not Begging ~ Gus boarded 12/4

Dogs

Invertebrates

In Memoriam

  • x

Didn’t Make It

  • x

Exceptions (inclusion not guaranteed)

  • x

Extra, Extra: All Ark boarders are invited to shout out at the Friday Ark Frapper Map.

Cat folks: remember to submit your links to:

Birders: I and the Bird: A Blog Carnival for Bird Lovers is published every 2 weeks.

For the Spineless: Circus of the Spineless. A monthly celebration of Insects, Arachnids, Molluscs, Crustaceans, Worms and most anything else that wiggles.

For the Herp lovers: House of Herps. The monthly blog carnival devoted exclusively to reptiles and amphibians.

Dog folks: remember to submit your links to:

  • The Canine Carnival hosted by Pamibe last year is on hiatus an looking for a new sponsor
  • The Carnival of the Dogs hosted by Mickey’s Musings

    • has been out of operation since July 2007

For other current carnivals check out The Blog Carnival and The TTLB Uber Carnival

Friday Ark #320

This entry was posted in Bird Blogging Cat Blogging Dog Blogging Friday Ark Invertebrate Blogging Pet Blogging Pets Vertebrate Blogging Weekend Cat Blogging on by

We’ll post links to sites that have Friday (plus or minus a few days) photos of their chosen animals (photoshops at our discretion and humans only in supporting roles). Watch the Exception category for rocks, beer, coffee cups, and….?

Visit all the boarders, Link to the Ark and check back for updates through Sunday afternoon!

You can board the Friday Ark by submitting your post here, leaving a comment or a trackback to this post or emailing fridayark AT themodulator.org. NOTE: Trackbacks seem to broken right now.

You can find previous editions at the not quite up to date Arkives page.

Cats

Birds

Other Vertebrates

  • Worm Salad: Red Eft
  • Rambling Woods: Happy Thanksgiving ~ Birds and Squirrel
  • The Little House in the Not-So-Big Woods: Snake
  • The Paw Relations: Squirrel Saturday boarded 11/27
  • Blackberry Creek Home Arts: Dig It! Possum boarded 11/27

Dogs

Invertebrates

In Memoriam

Didn’t Make It

  • x

Exceptions (inclusion not guaranteed)

  • x

Extra, Extra: All Ark boarders are invited to shout out at the Friday Ark Frapper Map.

Cat folks: remember to submit your links to:

Birders: I and the Bird: A Blog Carnival for Bird Lovers is published every 2 weeks.

For the Spineless: Circus of the Spineless. A monthly celebration of Insects, Arachnids, Molluscs, Crustaceans, Worms and most anything else that wiggles.

For the Herp lovers: House of Herps. The monthly blog carnival devoted exclusively to reptiles and amphibians.

Dog folks: remember to submit your links to:

  • The Canine Carnival hosted by Pamibe last year is on hiatus an looking for a new sponsor
  • The Carnival of the Dogs hosted by Mickey’s Musings

    • has been out of operation since July 2007

For other current carnivals check out The Blog Carnival and The TTLB Uber Carnival

Why is Berners-Lee Wrong About iTunes?

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In raising some legitimate concerns about walled gardens being created on the internet Tim Berners-Lee says the following:

You can’t make a link to any information in the iTunes world — a song or information about a band. You can’t send that link to someone else to see. You are no longer on the Web. The iTunes world is centralized and walled off.

Except it appears that you can.
For example, and this is not an endorsement of this song, here is a link to Kush by Dr. Dre.
It sure looks to me like I can link to information about a song and send that link to someone else to see.
There may be other walled garden issues with iTunes but this does not appear to be one of them.
What am I missing?