
#WritingFromIsolationWard
1. Dr. Dre – $110 million
2. Roger Waters, of Pink Floyd – $88 million
3. Elton John – $80 million
4. U2 – $78 million
5. Take That – $69 million
6. Bon Jovi – $60 million
7. Britney Spears – $58 million
8. Paul McCartney, – $57 million:
8. Just a Normal Girl Like You and I – $57 million
10. Justin Bieber – $55 million
Top Earners in Music this year, can you guess who Number 9 is?
Could we also talk about the man in fur and diamonds singing “Imagine no possessions”?
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2012/01/01/thats-not-how-the-song-goes-cee-lo/ – I think we should all remember that Cee Lo changed the lyrics to his own song for more airplay; so I don’t think he really cares about lyrics anyway
A Canadian who was sentenced to death in absentia Wednesday in Cairo over an anti-Islam movie that caused deadly riots in parts of the Muslim world said he’s terrified of being kidnapped and spirited to Egypt.
http://metronews.ca/news/canada/457427/egyptian-death-sentence-terrifies-canadian/
Seven Coptic Egyptians living abroad were sentenced to death Wednesday by a court in Cairo for their connection to an inflammatory anti-Islam film, the prosecutor’s office said.
When Religion and Politics Mix, the results are rarely positive – http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/28/world/meast/egypt-anti-islam-film/index.html
DRM rears its ugly, malformed, malignant, cross-eyed head again. Despite the fact that, as Cory Doctorow so aptly put it, no one has ever purchased anything because it came with DRM, an ever-slimming number of content providers insist on punishing paying customers with idiotic “anti-piracy” schemes.