Trawlers are 'destroying history on the seabed'

The chains and cables used by commercial fishing ships are wrecking British shipwrecks.

Investigations using robot submarines have revealed that serious damage has been inflicted on vast numbers of the 32,000 pre-1945 ships whose wrecks litter Britain’s coastal waters. Examples include the recently discovered 18th-century warship HMS Victory, which led Britain’s fleet before Nelson’s flagship of the same name. In 1744, Victory sank with all hands near the Channel Islands. Cannon hauled from the wreck showed it had suffered severe damage from trawlers.

TV's new model?

In a post dense with ideas about the future of television, Noah Brier wonders if television will eventually deliver two different forms of content: the traditional “live” form and a new “time shifted” form enabled by DVR and related technologies.

There’s also a thought-provoking quote from Jared of the Naked NYC blog: “Technology and music reward early adoption, but television does not.”

Agreed. I just finished watching Arrested Development for the first time. About halfway through the first disc, I was glad I hadn’t seen the show when it was on TV; I would have been too heartbroken upon hearing of its cancellation.