Sarah Returns, Music Tax, and Recession The Movie

Callie Returns to Prison Break - The lovely Sarah Wayne Callies is returning for the 4th season of Prison Break despite apparently having her head cut off. She initially left the show to enjoy motherhood but I guess she realized the same thing that many other parents do, that a sleeping, eating and pooping machine is entertaining for so long and sometimes other interests are good. Considering the tremendous amount of downtime that TV and movie productions have for the actors, she might as well get paid for her other interest. Apparently her return and Michael's quest to find her will be a major plot point for the season.

Mandatory Music Tax? - Warner Music, with the blessing of the RIAA, is attempting to push through a monthly music tax of around $5 on everyone's internet bill. For the $5 charge, you would have unlimited access to music, but no ownership of that music. The charge would occur whether you wanted that unlimited access or not. It’s estimated the tax would add $10 billion in revenue for the music industry, very little of which would make its way to the artists. The additional side effect would be that the industry would have no reason to change or adapt and would have artists over a barrel as they would de-facto become the only method of releasing music to the public via the internet. Long story short, it means that the music industry doesn't have to compete; it gets money whether what it produces is any good or not. Hopefully such an idea will never occur but who knows with the continue emergence of mega corporations.

Recession: The Movie - Cute fake teaser trailer that makes fun of the Bush and his cronies for continued inability to predict problems with the economy as they failed with Iraq.


White House on 4000 Dead - A video of the daily White House press briefing from 3/24/08 with Dana Perino where she attempts to hit all the Iraq buzzwords ("sacrifice", "not in vain", "kill us") while trying not to get flustered by Helen Thomas. For reasons I don't really understand, I just find Perino to be really hot, which is mainly why the video got my attention.