The FCC is actually going to do the right thing to stop ISP traffic “shaping”

This is as great as it is surprising.

Sasquatch 2008 announced

R.E.M., the National, Built to Spill, Cold War Kids, Okkervil River, Rogue Wave, Mike Patton & Dan the Automator (!!), BATTLES, Cave Singers, Pela, Thao Nguyen, Sera Cahoone, The Cops. Yeah, you’re going.

Getty sold to a private equity firm

San Francisco based Hellman and Friedman has offered $2.1B plus will be assuming $300M in debt to acquire the Seattle stock photo agency.

First single from new Roots album, “75 Bars”

How much do I love the second comment: “I bet White people will appreciate this” because damn if I don’t love this track already.

Harlem rent parties and Fats Waller

Kottke has a quick but great writeup on rent parties, a tradition out of Harlem for dealing with rapidly rising rents and, I suspect, prohibition.

[via Tiffehr]

She’s right, you do not talk back to Darth Vader [via Daring Fireball]

I think AO Scott nails this review in a way that can’t help but make me think of the Obama phenomenon. It’s as if Barack Obama is sweding a new generation into politics.

—quite possibly the definitive reason why the New York Times should not allow comments on their stories.

Kottke has a swell interview with “Proust was a Neuroscientist” author Jonah Lehrer

“After a few hundred pages of melodrama, I began to realize that the novelist had these very modern ideas about how our memory worked. His fiction, in other words, anticipated the very facts I was trying to uncover by studying the isolated neurons of sea

Princeton research Ed Felten freezes computer chips, reads the 1’s and 0’s

The implication being that one could retrieve encryption keys, which are normally stored in RAM and then wiped when the computer is powered down. Obviously, requires physical access to the machine.