Every Friday, Ben brings you SD&IF’s weekend space filler With Us / Against Us. Prepare to be torn down, then gloriously uplifted!

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Hey readers.

I happen to be in Florida and won’t be posting today. Leave your cries of outrage in the comments.

Look forward to Ben’s Leap Year installment of With Us / Against Us later today!

Smooches,

Tony

Original image here.

We recently told you about accusations that Comcast packed their “public” hearing with set-fillers and other disinterested folk in order to keep the anxious general public out of the public hearing held by the FCC on Monday. (SaveTheInternet.com has a nice blocked-out account here.)

Now the FCC might be considering a redo. And this time around it might be at Stanford - Lawrence Lessig’s homebase.

If anyone can make Comcast cry “uncle”…

It’s not so shocking to assume people are reading more because of the internet. But are we reading deeper? AHAHHHAHAAAHAHA!!! Oh, that’s fresh. Fresh, I tell ya’.

Wait…what? We are? Crazy. [via]

This is why fair use (and tumblr) rules: garfield minus garfield. [via]

What the hell? Apparently the University of Kentucky was informed via e-mail that its course on the Holocaust no longer existed…despite the fact that, you know, students were enrolled and the teacher was teaching them. And, maybe, it is all because some people didn’t realize that the .uk suffix means United Kingdom and not the southeastern school that consistently produces fiercely competitive basketball teams?

The internet is out of hand, people.

It’s a rock and roll kind of week here at sd&if…

Ars Technica: Music executive declaration: “Music 1.0 is dead.”

The statement, made at the Digital Music Forum East, could only have been followed by a unanimous: We have absolutely no idea what that means.

Things get even dodgier when the article uses the following to paraphrase iLike’s CEO’s entire speech: Music 2.0, meet Web 2.0.

That’s the kind of contemporary media-anthropomorphizing-meta-speak that makes the back of your eyeballs itch.

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Every Wednesday, we here at sd&if bring you a glorious little internet gem designed to stop those TPS reports just short of completion.

Take this one home tonight: Library Thing.

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Every Tuesday, Deputy Director Ben brings you the creative endeavors that earn you your very own fingerprint file.

This week: Pillaging the original ‘WTF’

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