Linkwad.

1. Hacking AirPlay onto other devices. The comments embody “missing the forest for the trees.”
2. T2 using only Shakespeare, which “enabled us to accurately retell the story of Terminator 2: Judgment Day while remaining true to the words of Shakespeare in form (if less so in intent).” Via @RyanQNorth.
3. David Grann is pretty fucking awesome.

Linkwad.

1. Via Kottke, this game will suck away hours of your life, even if some of the movies aren’t classics, and some of the clues are tangential at best.
2. Netflix knows how to keep their customers happy. Okay, sure, it would’ve been better if their service hadn’t gone down, but this is pretty good.
3. “The apparent frivolity of ‘Friday’ is only its most cunning aspect, a bubble-gum Trojan horse containing a radical text throwing itself against the gears of a death-bound society.” Hey, did you know the Awl is awesome (PS: So is the Hairpin)?
4. I instinctively dislike the idea of Ma Bell buying T-Mobile, especially since T-Mo has great coverage, great service and great prices, all things that AT&T lacks. I also think this speculation about AT&T shooting for iPhone 4G dominance (if not outright exclusivity) is pretty smart.
5. Things like this are why I’m drifting away from football fandom.

Linkwad.

1. The end of the free Internet is near, with mobile data carriers like Verizon throttling data and downresing images and the Senate resurrecting the “Internet kill switch” bill.
2. The getback: Kenneth Cole edition.
3. I haven’t been posting much about the Egyptian uprising, but here are some heart-stopping photos from the Lens and Big Picture, as well as some old-school weaponry via Andrew Sullivan.
4. “The benefits of college are growing, but the costs are growing faster.”
5. A compelling True Grit hypothesis.
6. I love the stealth-fighter look of this Lancia Stratos remake.
7. It may be dumb, but “the war on pirates” does have a ring to it.

“Who said art has to cost money?”

Via Kottke, Francis Ford Coppola drops some well-formed thoughts on copyright:

I once found a little excerpt from Balzac. He speaks about a young writer who stole some of his prose. The thing that almost made me weep,  he said, “I was so happy when this young person took from me.” Because that’s what we want. We want you to take from us. We want you, at first, to steal from us, because you can’t steal. You will take what we give you and you will put it in your own voice and that’s how you will find your voice.

And that’s how you begin. And then one day someone will steal from you. And Balzac said that in his book: It makes me so happy because it makes me immortal because I know that 200 years from now there will be people doing things that somehow I am part of. So the answer to your question is: Don’t worry about whether it’s appropriate to borrow or to take or do something like someone you admire because that’s only the first step and you have to take the first step.
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This idea of Metallica or some rock n’ roll singer being rich, that’s not necessarily going to happen anymore. Because, as we enter into a new age, maybe art will be free. Maybe the students are right. They should be able to download music and movies. I’m going to be shot for saying this. But who said art has to cost money? And therefore, who says artists have to make money?

In the old days, 200 years ago, if you were a composer, the only way you could make money was to travel with the orchestra and be the conductor, because then you’d be paid as a musician. There was no recording. There were no record royalties. So I would say, “Try to disconnect the idea of cinema with the idea of making a living and money.” Because there are ways around it.

The assassination of Yogi Bear.

By the coward Booboo:

Via @DaveWeigel.