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From Bono’s 5/17 commencement address at University of Pennsylvania:

Me, I’m in love with this country called America. I’m a huge fan of America, I’m one of those annoying fans, you know the ones that read the CD notes and follow you into bathrooms and ask you all kinds of annoying questions about why you didn’t live up to that?

I’m that kind of fan. I read the Declaration of Independence and I’ve read the Constitution of the United States, and they are some liner notes, dude. As I said yesterday I made my pilgrimage to Independence Hall, and I love America because America is not just a country, it’s an idea. You see my country, Ireland, is a great country, but it’s not an idea. America is an idea, but it’s an idea that brings with it some baggage, like power brings responsibility. It’s an idea that brings with it equality, but equality even though it’s the highest calling, is the hardest to reach. The idea that anything is possible, that’s one of the reasons why I’m a fan of America. It’s like hey, look there’s the moon up there, lets take a walk on it, bring back a piece of it. That’s the kind of America that I’m a fan of.

Fucking brilliant.

The PlayFair Project is forced offshore–to India

From The Register

The PlayFair project, which removes fair-use restrictions from music purchased through Apple’s online store, has become the latest victim of offshoring. Actually, that’s not quite true: only the hosting provider has moved to India. Not surprisingly, Apple has used the Digital Millenium Copyright Act to ask SourceForge to remove the project. SourceForge declined to use the Safe Harbor provisions of the Act.

PlayFair uses Jon Johansen’s iTunes circumvention to remove fair-use restrictions from iTunes Music Store files. Apple allows buyers to play the files on three authorized Windows or Macintosh computers and an unlimited number of iPods, and to burn up to ten CDs with the same playlist, which many Apple users have no problem with. However the circumvention allows you to play the files on a Linux machine, for example, or a smartphone or any other MP3 player that supports AAC playback. The new location for PlayFair is at Sarovar, a hosting company for software libre projects based in Trivandrum, India.

Damn ? just, damn. It?s been out for a few hot hip-hop seconds now. It?s that underground sound the backpack kids are always talking about ? it went and tapped that mainstream ass again. I kid you not; a few (including myself) have been sleeping on this for the past six weeks. A quick search of DW gave no results, but if you?d like to talk about it, talk about it. Then shut your trap and get to the record store, because ? for fuck?s sake ? Chi-town’s own is off the hook!

David Crosby was picked up last night after his show in Jersey. His crime? Bag o’ weed and a .45 tucked in his suitcase.

Andre 3000 Wants To Attend Juilliard. Now, Gwen Stefani has made me think up some crazy shit before, but nothing involving a clarinet.

Er. .. yet.

[Link from PopFeed.]

Christina comes away with it after blurting out the following comment in front of millions. I am moving to Mars with Duffy.

“I don’t want anything to happen to me… like what happened to Ja…. (pause) like what happened to Janet.”

Our dearest Jean Grae, arguably the best indie female rapper around, isn’t happy with what’s going on in the rap industry.

“I hate this industry. I hate the music business because it has shit to do with music.”

Word.

Vows to keep his “fuckin’ mouth shut.” Sting, however, has threatened to quietly enjoy a tantric orgasm from the comfort of his seat for “the duration of the ceremonies”.

It might be unfortunate that DW is getting the hip-hop injection, but rest assured you’ll still find this site twitching in an alley way, half-dead and foaming at the mouth. So roll up a sleeve… this first hit is dirty but we have to start somewhere.

The muppet rapper known as Cam’Ron is selling his big, fat, pink Range Rover on eBay.

PINK!

Meat Puppets’ bassist Chris Kirkwood was gut-shot by a Post Office security guard on December 26 after a dispute over a parking space.

The guard “took out the baton and held it out in front of him and said, ‘You need to leave,’ ” Killigrew said. “The guy took the baton from him and struck him at least one time in the forehead at which time the guard felt fear for his life. He said, ‘I thought the guy was going to kill me.’ He already displayed that he would hurt him, and the guard shot him one time in the abdomen.”

Kirkwood fled the scene with Harvey Keitel, sprawled in the backseat of a commandeered towncar.