Fade to Black, The Day the Music Died

Have you heard of Weird Al Yankovic? He became famous as a direct result of independent radio. KMET ran the Dr. Demento show where artists could send in their tapes to be heard on the radio. KMET was silenced on February 14, 1987.

Have you heard of Metallica? They were made popular by KNAC, an independent radio stationed silenced on February 15, 1995. In 1998 KNAC was reborn on the Internet as KNAC.com. They, along with many other independent Internet radio stations, are about to be silenced again.

It seems that record companies aren’t making enough money to buy Lars Ulrich another solid gold Humvee, or pay lawyers to sue 12 year olds.

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"The Sleuth"

Is it just me, or are journalists getting dumber by the minute? Ted “Tubes” Stevens, the idiot senator who brought us such entertainment as “The Bridge to Nowhere” and “The Internet is not a Truck”, has a website. His website, like almost all websites, has error messages. Those error messages are customizable. It’s really quite simple to do.

The Washington Post has a columnist who has about as much knowledge of the Internet as Ted does. Ironically she calls herself “The Sleuth”. She wasn’t a good enough sleuth to use Google to find out that the error message on Ted’s site has been around awhile, and most likely was not written by Ted.

The Washington Post story is here
A link to evidence that shows the error message is not unique to Ted is here