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I always assumed that Vaudeville was a mixture of off-the-cuff sketch comedy and pretentious Soap Opera.

And then I am reminded of Abbott and Costello’s infamous skit: Who’s On First.

Along with Charlie Chaplin, The Marx Brothers, The Three Stooges, Fred Astaire, and Judy Garland, Abbot and Costello were among the few acts that made a successful transition from Vaudeville to radio and television.

Because these disruptive technologies forced enterprises to change business models in order to survive, I wonder if there were many lawsuits from organizations similar to the RIAA and MPAA during that time.

See also, The DMCA, The Most Creative Solution To Preventing Creativity and Without IP who will invent? How about everybody.

“It is well that war is so terrible — lest we should grow too fond of it.” – Robert E. Lee

See yesterday’s ironic statement from Bill O’Reilly to put this into perspective.

Be sure to also check out the semi-funny video proving the Ambrose Bierce maxim: “War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.”

News.com had a good round-up of funny quotes surrounding the following situation: love bots.

By far the best list came from The Daily Gut. Muy originale. Is the “Realdoll” old fashioned already? And speaking of robots, Ray Kurzweil recently did a live internet chat thingy with the Washington Post and touched on the future of robots.

See also: The Invasion of Non-human Robots