BMI Podcasting And Licensing Podcasters

See today's press release, BMI Launches New Songwriter/Artist Podcast; Licenses Podcasters in Nationwide Initiative: "BMI's licensing website has been expanded to provide a clear path for podcasters to get more information on licensing music for their programs and to obtain BMI licenses 24 hours a day, 7 days a week." More at BMI and Podcasting. The new BMI podcast is here (feed).

Star Wars Trilogy: The Mother's Day Edition

• The May 9th Time Magazine


• Via Boing Boing: a side by side comparison of Lucasfilm's original cease and desist letter regarding the l33t subtitled Revenge of the Sith trailer, and the same letter, itself l33t rendered. (It's good to make a mother laugh that hard.)


• Also via Boing Boing: the Vader Force Sprinkler. (Anyone who's lived in California long enough will be unsurprised to learn green lawns and the Dark Side go hand in hand.)


• Bonus links: the Guardian says "sextology" is not a real word, but that's not slowing it down too badly.

Keyword Ads And Those Pesky French

In this month's California Lawyer, Googled: "[E]ven if American courts unanimously line up behind Google, that doesn't necessarily resolve the conflict."

Children Are Mesmerizing, And Change Absolutely Everything

Congratulations to the Haughey family!

Bonus link: Jeneane on boy children.

Dis-Robed

Professor Bainbridge, on Pat Robertson's recent threat level assessment regarding the federal judiciary: "I am attempting to take solace in Woodrow Wilson's aphorism: 'if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.'"