Repeat.

Oh my what a good year.

It's interesting how many stories you hear about the "father" or "mother" of X technology having never made any money from their invention. How they're now starving, or at least just living normal lives doing boring jobs, when in reality the entire everything of everything relies entirely on their invention or innovation.

Ditto for famous writers of books, songs, films...

I propose the "Forgotten Creators Club".

The club will somehow gain large piles of cash (that part isn't important) and distribute it to all of those creators about whom you think "how can they not be stinking rich living in their own castles with servants and stuff? Their creation is so popular/useful/important/life changing/super-like-rad!"

Those automatically disqualified:

• The dead and the relations of the dead. Dead people don't need money and their relations should go invent something for themselves. We could give them awards but the club will keep the money.
• Those that did make money from their creation but snorted it all up their nose or pissed it against a wall. Perhaps the club will make an exception for family in this case although maybe that should be the Family Of People Who Wasted The Spoils Of Their Talent Club.
• Those that created an excellent piece of importantness, but followed it with many evil examples of evilness, or created their original creation via the use of evilness. An example could be a person that created penicillin, but later invented cluster nukes. Or if they invented penicillin by torturing babies. No money for you nasty person.

The club will be interested in the suffering of living artists who are left to starve while their work is revered.

Decision making will all be done via "Web 2.0" technology to keep the Internet Wankers Club happy.

Any suggestions? Comments?

Something just resonated in my brain enough to spit itself into text which I now represent here on my blog:

People who complain about spelling in blogs and the printed news are like those that complain about continuity errors in Red Dwarf:

[Red Dward continuity errors were] a result of Grant and Naylor not bothering to check their facts because they assumed that no-one else would either.

Continuity isn't the point...

Are there spelling conventions where people dress up as their favourite punctuation points?

An article in today's The Age seems to infer that recording a live concert and publishing that recording on the internet is currently legal in Australia, but will soon be made illegal under the new copyright laws.

Call me crazy, but I'm almost positive recording a concert without a bands permission is technically illegal under existing copyright law if you "broadcast it" or attempt to sell it. I believe it's a grey area of legality if you do it for your own personal use and don't sell the recording, but broadcast is definitely illegal.

Isn't it?

Certainly with the combination of privacy, trespass and copyright laws, using a handheld video camera or audio recording device outside of a pre-approved studio situation could become very difficult.

If anyone pays any attention to the laws...

I wonder what the ratio is of new police vs. new laws?