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Gabriel and Eno Start Digital Music Artist Union
An anonymous reader writes "We have long heard stories about how the record companies cheat their own artists with audit techniques that would make Enron blush. They are already applying the same techniques to the revenues they draw from digital download sites like Apple iTunes, which is one reason many artists have refused to allow their music be sold through them (those who can control it at least). Looking to take a stand in the digital music arena before these practices become status quo Peter Gabriel and Brian Eno are starting a new union the "Magnificent Union of Digitally Downloading Artists" or MUDDA. Gabriel, co-founder of OD2 - an iTunes competitor - has that company as a first source to negotiate terms with the new union."
Please give us communists another chance. We are sorry about that one Ukranian famine incident, and the others as well. Next time it will be better. Thanks in advance.
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in other news:
Captain Kangaroo championed TV for kids
The Captain was 76 when he died Friday morning. To children of the 1950s, he seemed that old when he started the longest-running kids' series on network television.
Millions of baby boomers knew Bob Keeshan as Captain Kangaroo, beloved for his walrus mustache, Dutch boy bangs and big red coat with giant kangaroo-like pockets. Many of us didn't know the coat was red until years later, with the spread of color TV.
Keeshan, who died in Vermont after a long illness, made his debut on "Captain Kangaroo" on CBS in 1955. Though grandfatherly in appearance and manner, the producer-performer was only 27 at the time.
"I was impressed with the potential positive relationship between grandparents and grandchildren, so I chose an elderly character," Keeshan said, according to The Associated Press.
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In a statement issued Friday by his son, Michael, Keeshan's family said: "Our father, grandfather and friend was as passionate for his family as he was for America's children. He was largely a private man living an often public life as an advocate for all that our nation's children deserve."
"Captain Kangaroo" was an early-morning fixture on CBS until 1985 when it was canceled to make way for an expanded news show.
"Kangaroo," trimmed and bounced to lousy time slots more than once, ran for 30 years before moving to PBS for six more years. As the Captain, Keeshan poked around the Treasure House, talking to puppets and his buddy Mr. Green Jeans, played by Hugh "Lumpy" Brannum, as well as that punster Mr. Moose, the carrot-nabbing Bunny Rabbit, the poetry-spouting Grandfather Clock and the erudite Word Bird.
Long before "Sesame Street" and unlike today's irony-infused animated kidvids, Keeshan's show was quaint and simple, a blend of knock-knock jokes and gentle moral teachings for the first TV generation. A popular cartoon segment that debuted within the show was "Tom Terrific," about a little boy who could morph into anything, and his sidekick, Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog.
Throughout his life, Keeshan was honored as a longtime children's advocate and believer in the educational power of television (the show won six Emmys and three Peabody Awards). He began the now-common practice of inserting "bumpers" to separate program content from commercials.
Keeshan was an outspoken critic of violence on television - the only "rough stuff" you ever saw on his show was when the Captain would be caught under a cascade of pingpong balls. He also urged tighter controls on tobacco advertising. Keeshan testified before Congress in 1986 in support of a bill intended to limit the amount of television aimed at children.
Born on Long Island, N.Y., on June 27, 1927, Keeshan served in the Marine Corps reserves during World War II but did not see action. He worked as an NBC page and was an assistant to radio personality Bob Smith. Keeshan went along when Smith's show "Puppet Playhouse" evolved into NBC's "Howdy Doody Show."
It was on that series that Keeshan launched his screen career as the mute, horn-honking Clarabell the Clown, a role he played for five years. He was fired from the role, in part because parents complained that his seltzer-spraying antics as Clarabell got kids too excited before dinner.
According to Stephen Davis' authoritative book about "Howdy Doody," called "Say Kids! What Time Is It? Notes from the Peanut Gallery," Keeshan was dumped mainly so that the show could cast a more musically talented, theatrically trained dancer and mime. After an avalanche of letters complaining that the replacement was not the "real" Clarabell, NBC rehired Keeshan.
Clearly Keeshan's talent, like that of Fred Rogers, derived more from being a comforting presence than being a skilled performer.
Later, Keeshan appeared on ABC as Corny the Clown and Tinker the Toymaker, the prototype for "Captain Kangaroo." Producers who worked for Kee
Why is the ESA pretending as though it has discovered the presence of ice water on Mars?
ESA Statement (Or Lie, As We Call It):
"You look at the picture, look at the fingerprint and say this is water ice," said Allen Moorehouse, the project's manager of spacecraft operations. "This is the first time it's been detected on the ground. This is the first direct confirmation
NASA's Rebuttal (Gentle Smackdown):
Our Odyssey spacecraft that has been orbiting Mars since 2001 did discover vast amounts of frozen water in the northern and southern latitudes. And we were surprised by the fact that there was so much, and so close to the surface," Orlando Figueroa, director of NASA's Mars exploration program, told CNN on Friday.
"So it's not new news but we are happy to see that their satellite is also able to pick up where it exists," he said when asked about the Mars Express findings
The EUians are so embarassed about their Beagle fuckup that they're reduced to claiming dubious firsts.
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Reminds me of the WWE angle when Mick Foley, Test, Big Show and Ken Shamrock formed the Union of People You Oughta Respect Shane, UP YORS.
My mom is DEAD, you insensitive clod!
Eno is GOD.
Serious question for our Canuck boat anchors to the north: are the Quebecois worthless quaking pussies like their "brethren" in France? Gawd, I hope not.
OK, I'm a smoking non-Republican. I also eat beef which supports the Toby Keith types. If I boycott meat, as a vegetarian I will be supporting Archer Daniels Midland and all the republican cornshuckers of the agriculture belt. My Starbucks coffee addiction aids Israel...I can quit smoking and java, but don't I have to eat?