Trying out this new intense debate plugin for WordPress. Not that there is much debate on my blog or that its intense, but it seems to be a simple to use plugin which allows for spam filtering also. I also blame Zai for this idea.
For years I’ve always been of the opinion that file sharing was an obviously un-winnable war which content publishers needed to accept already. But how futile their efforts will become didn’t occur to me until I was grabbing a torrent of a file and decided to peak at the list of connections out of curiosity. To my amazement, every single one was encrypted. I remember this being talked about, but that it has gotten so widely adopted and is completely transparent to the end user was interesting to me.
I was amused by Steven Colbert’s trip to Iraq as apart of the USO efforts to provide releif for service members abroad. Hulu even allows you to edit a clip, so here it is in all its glory:
