Gizmodo is on to something here. The RIAA is trying to sue WiFi providers if people use their hotspots to download music illegally. This would have absolutely no effect on downloading music and would only serve to have free WiFi providers pull the plugs on their services for fear of being sued. It is a stupid money grab by the RIAA. So if I use a Ford to drive to my friend’s house to pick up a CD so I can take it home and copy it, will the RIAA go after Ford? Why not go after Dell because that’s the computer that was used to make the copy? Or Sony since they produce the blank CDs? It is stupid, just stupid.

What Gizmodo is proposing is not that we pirate music during March but that we stop buying music from RIAA labels. That would include the iTunes Music Store and any of the major record labels. Follow the link and join the protest.

Update: Changed the link to catch all of Gizmodo’s links instead of just their first one. Keep an eye on this one.

I’d like to see him try this with Mohammad.

To one who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also, and from one who takes away your cloak do not withhold your tunic either. – Jesus, Luke 6:29

If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. – Jesus, John 15:18

There it is. Snow has arrived in the Chicago area and it came on hard. Gillian was messing with icicles on the patio so I grabbed the camera to catch her in the action. After she finished, I jabbed my head out into the falling snow and snagged this.

This picture is a screen shot from Time.com. I had just finished reading an interview with Al Mohler about his Calvinism and his recent time in an ICU with a life threatening complication. This picture was at the bottom of the page and was part of a list of features.

The young woman in the photo wore a customized t-shirt that contained an expletive which Time tastefully blocked with the red box. You can figure out which expletive it was. She’s a New Orleans Saints fan and the camera caught her during a playoff game with, obviously, da Eagles. Apparently, the camera lingered on her for a while before they cut away. A conservative watchdog group complained.

I just love Time’s sentiment. Perhaps the crazy guy with the wig and the “John 3:16” sign in the end zone wasn’t so bad after all, huh? :) By the way, the Mohler interview was great. Go read that. The article attached to this photo wasn’t that great.