We live in an exciting time (for geeks). Technology is advancing rapidly. Almost every day there is a announcement that brings exciting new possibilities. Just look at the Omni-directional treadmill and imagine the applications for immersive gaming.  <Geeky chills run all through my body>

I love music and movies, who doesn’t?  So in this day and age all I want is to buy media online (music, movies and TV shows), download it, store it in a single place and be able to enjoy it in any room in my house or on any device that I own.

But I can’t.

I am not allowed to.

Sure, it is possible. The technology exists, the devices are on store shelves, but the RIAA (Record Industry) and MPAA (Movie Industry) don’t want me to. THEY want to control my media. They want me to go to the store and buy a disk that gets manhandled by my kids until I have to go to the store and buy it again. They want me to heft the disk on to my back and lug it for tens of feet to watch a DVD in another room!  If I am really stubborn and insist on buying my media online (since it is much lighter that way), then it is crippled with Digital Rights Management (DRM). This means that I can only watch the movie on the computer that I downloaded it from or only listen to the music on the device that has been registered to the computer.  DRM prevents me from backing up my movies or sharing them with 10,000 or so of my close personal friends. psshht!

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So Jenny was brushing the cat and I got to thinking..

Hey, this cat fur would make a great pillow.

So how bout it? Anyone want a gen-u-ine hyper-allergenic pillow?