Agent Palmer

Sunday, Sunday, Sunday! It’s Daytona. No wait, Monday, Monday, Monday it’s Daytona. After a very long wait the NASCAR season finally got it’s first “Gentleman and Danica, start your engines!” under the lights Monday night at Daytona International Raceway.

It was wrecks, fire and delays. And it wasn’t a Michael Bay remake of Days of Thunder. It was the actual race.

The article “Focus on past glory kept Kodak from digital win” which appeared on Reuters shortly after noon today had a line in it that was a bit jarring to me.

Not that it was untrue or shocking, just that it made me think, and what I thought of wasn’t pretty.

Today is January 18th, 2012. There has been a lot of speculation over the last few weeks as to who would participate in this blackout. Well, the day is here. Big boys Google, Wikipedia, Reddit, Wordpress and Mozilla are all throwing their collective weight around. So is The Oatmeal, I haz Cheezburger, oreilly and others.

I applaud them for standing up for something.

I am so very impressed with The Muppets. I grew up with them, in fact, I’m in the last group of kids who watched new episodes of Jim Henson’s legacy. Nickelodeon, was still playing original episodes of “The Muppet Show” and “Fraggle Rock” were still alive and well. So for something that I grew up with to still impress me, feels like a big deal.

And what Disney has done, and I’m not the biggest Disney fan (far from it), socially through the use of available technologies to make The Muppets relevant again, is truely a masterpiece.