I swiped this link from an entry stellar_dust made, and I consider it important enough and well written enough to warrant it's own post. (I never post anymore, so this is quite the event)

A startlingly simple summary of how your vote will effect one particular group of people.

As long as I've got a few people watching, something happened this summer that I completely missed that I also consider monumental:

Dr. Horrible

why, you say, is Mr. Joss Whedon's latest project so significant? Because it was made by artists. It was written, shot, acted, designed, FUNDED completely by artists. While this isn't such an uncommon occurrence anymore, the Whedon fandom has made this special by bringing so much love...and profit, to it. The brilliant 45 minute short is up on the website with limited commercials, so if nothing else, watch it once. You can be sure that it's the artist's profit. It makes me sad that that's such a novel idea these days.

I promise I'll actually blog about myself next time.