John Cleese is touring England soon to pay off his third wife–or something like that.

John Cleese is to embark on his first-ever UK tour next year at the age of 71. The comedian, who recently agreed a divorce settlement believed to be in the region of £12m, has dubbed it the “Alimony Tour”.

Cleese, who rose to fame with Monty Python, promised the show would be “an evening of well-honed anecdotes, psychoanalytical titbits, details of recent surgical procedures, and unprovoked attacks on former colleagues, especially Michael Palin”.

I’ve often said (to myself in imaginary conversations with people who care what I think of public issues) that pornography isn’t everywhere online, but sometimes it feels as if it is. That’s why the best web filter is your own mind, which doesn’t help our kids who don’t have minds yet.

Steve Jobs shocked some Net-citizens by saying Apple’s iPad and iPhone won’t have porn apps. He said in an email, “Yep, freedom from programs that steal your private data. Freedom from programs that trash your battery. Freedom from porn. Yep, freedom. The times they are a changin’, and some traditional PC folks feel like their world is slipping away.”

As Eric Felton points out, Jobs may be promising more than he can deliver. “As long as one of the Apple Apps is an Internet browser, the bawdy side of web will still be accessible on iPhones and iPads. Still, just because Mr. Jobs won’t be able to purge his devices of blue content, that doesn’t mean he’s obliged to distribute it himself.”

A Gawker.com reporter accused Jobs of imposing his morality on us, to which Mr. Felton writes: “What a peculiar—and peculiarly modern—controversy. Is it really such an affront to the rights of those who would buy and sell pornography that someone might want the right to choose not to?”

In slightly related news, a jobs bill from the Democrats in Washington, intended “to increase investments in science, research and training programs,” was scuttled after Republicans amended it to hold back on some of the funding and to deny any funding “to salaries to those officially disciplined for violations regarding the viewing, downloading, or exchanging of pornography, including child pornography, on a federal computer or while performing official government duties.”

Here’s a list of videos show what they call Augmented Reality. The first film, I believe, is student film illustrating the consequences of augmented reality. “Augmented reality may recontextualise the functions of consumerism and architecture, and change in the way in which we operate within it,” as noted on the Vimeo host page. Other videos show darn cool phone apps for navigation and identification. This is wild. (via Jeff Jarvis)

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And now for something completely different: a Western music video.