So, it’s Sunday. The news from northwest Aztlan is that, unlike many a Sunday, I’m not in Vegas — we’ve been in Texas most of the week, and were planning to be back in Vegas last night. Instead, we got stopped in Flagstaff, Arizona by snow in the mountains. We’re hoping to make it through the mountains and back to Vegas in time for a late lunch.

But in the meantime, neither rain, nor sleet, nor snowed-over mountain passes will stop the Shamelessness.

And you? What have you been up to this week? Write anything? Leave a link and a short description for your post in the comments. Or fire away about anything else you might want to talk about.

• Do Music Artists Fare Better in a World With Illegal File-Sharing? John Gruber, Daring Fireball (2009-11-13). Fascinating data assembled by The Times Online, indicating that music artists are making more money in the post-file-sharing era than before, because of a big jump in live performance revenue. The only group that is making less revenue is the record labels. (Terrible choices on the chart colors, though. Almost… (Linked Friday 2009-11-20.)
• Indie iPhone Developers Band Against Jackass Tim Langdell's !!!@@e2;20ac;2dc;Edge' Trademark Claims. Daring Fireball (2009-11-20). One, two, many EDGEs. Of course, if the developers wanted to be “pragmatic,” they could drop a few million on lobbying for trademark reform, hire an IP lawyer at $900/hr and spend the next several years of their lives meeting with legislators and filing motions in court.
  
  Direct action gets the goods. (Linked Friday 2009-11-20.)
• !!!@@e2;2dc;2026; The OS Opportunity. John Gruber, Daring Fireball (2009-11-18). A few weeks ago, in a piece here titled "Herd Mentality", I argued that PC makers who want to succeed should create their own OSes: It's not just that Apple is different among computer makers. It's that Apple is the only one that even can be different, because it's the… (Linked Friday 2009-11-20.)

Hey all,

It’s Sunday. A day of reflection. A day of reckoning. A day of Shamelessness.

Here in Vegas, we’re getting ready to leave Vegas. Temporarily; L. and I are off to Tejas in a couple days to visit with the kinfolks.

And you? What have you been up to this week? Write anything? Leave a link and a short description for your post in the comments. Or fire away about anything else you might want to talk about.

• SFPD cops from imaginary anti-dance-party squad steal laptops. Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing (2009-11-18). Autumn sez, “DJs at local underground parties have been losing their laptops to police raids – even when they’re not DJing. They’re being told that they’ll lose their laptops – and often their livelihood – for an indefinite period of time, with no information on when or how to get… (Linked Friday 2009-11-20.)
• Why The Innocent Flee From The Police. William N. Grigg, Pro Libertate (2009-11-05). “Why did he run?” This question thrusts itself upon us every time an unarmed or otherwise harmless person is gunned down while fleeing from police.Often that inquiry takes the form that assumes the guilt of the victim: “If he did nothing wrong, why did he run?” It’s also common for… (Linked Friday 2009-11-20.)
• 10 Year old tasered by Arkansas police. Don't Tase Me, Bro! (2009-11-20). Officer Dustin Bradshaw, a grown-ass man working for the Ozark government’s police force, decided to torture an “unruly” 10 year old with a 50,000-volt electric blast after she kicked him in the groin. Then he handcuffed her and arrested her for “disorderly conduct.” The charge is that she “screamed, kicked and resisted” when her mother tried to get her to take a shower before bed. Officer Dustin Bradshaw’s boss, Police Chief Jim Noggle, tells the press that he took no disciplinary action at all against Officer Dustin Bradshaw because “He had no other choice” than to torture, handcuff, and arrest her, because “he had to get the child under control.” No, he didn’t. (Linked Friday 2009-11-20.)
• RI Governor: Gay Couples can't be buried together. Don't Tase Me, Bro! (2009-11-20). Basher statism vs. bereaved families. In which hetero-politics goes beyond the usual meanness into utterly purposeless malice. (Linked Friday 2009-11-20.)

• The Way to Sesame Street Jesse Walker, Jesse Walker: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2009-10-23). It's hard to fathom just how unusual Sesame Street must have seemed when it debuted 40 years ago this month. The children's TV show didn't just mix entertainment with education: It was a full-blown collaboration between commercial showmen and social engineers. On one hand you had a team of educators,… (Linked Tuesday 2009-11-17.)
• Computer Class as Soulcraft. Jesse Walker: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2009-11-17). In which the Wall Street Journal discovers Make. (Linked Tuesday 2009-11-17.)
• Change. Hope. Jacob Lyles, (title unknown) (2009-11-03). Every generation must relearn the lesson: don’t trust politicians. A year later our candidate that valued technology, openness, and government transparency, the darling of Silicon Valley, is up to the same old bullshit. (Linked Tuesday 2009-11-17.)
• The underground Palestinian economy. (title unknown) (2009-11-17). Counter-economics in Gaza (Linked Tuesday 2009-11-17.)