Prison Bitch Name Generator, good not so clean fun!!!

Clash of the Electro (realaudio) DJ Felix Da Housecat uncovers the hype surrounding the emerging synth-pop scene known as 'electroclash'. With New York art collective Fischerspooner signed up to Ministry for a phenomenal seven-figure deal, are the new kids of Roland TB 303 really the way forward for dance music? Listen to a great documentary on Radio1!!!

Mouse Pad Couch, talk about recycling!!!

MPAA Requests Immunity to Commit Cyber-Crimes, a bill is up that would allow DoS attacks by hollywood!!!

All-In-One Arcade Console, now buy or build your own MAME box with arcade like controls!!!

Social Robot?, looks like a robot with ai is attending an ai conference, going to teach and interact with attendees!!!

New Bill Would Save Small Webcasters, looks like there are some people looking out for radio free internet!!!

Sony Loses Australian Copyright Case Federal Court of Australia Judge Ronald Sackville found that mod chips do not violate Australian laws forbidding circumvention of "technological protection measures." There law is simmilar to the DMCA. Sackville said the technology mod chips disable doesn't constitute a "technology protection measure" under the law because it also prevents legal activity, including the playback of imported games and personal backup copies of games. I wonder if the same rational should cover systems that defeat region coding of DVDs?!!!

On Trial: DMCA "The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on Thursday in an attempt to overturn key portions of a controversial 1998 copyright law. The suit asks a federal judge to rule that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is so sweeping that it unconstitutionally interferes with researchers' ability to evaluate the effectiveness of Internet filtering software."

iVillage Renounces Pop-up Advertising, its about time someone caught on. I for one am pretty sure the is a good legal argument to be made that pop-ups are a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act...but thats for another time. Now if some one would do the same with SPAM!!! Anyone know what the effectiveness of these technologies are, seems they can't be very good with such a high rate of disfavor among consumers!!!

Borrowing ROMs, this is arguably the best solution to P2P copyright problems i have heard so far!!!

Hearing Is Believing, "Picture a car where parents can listen to the Eagles while their kids wild out to Eminem in the back seat." Sounds more like Real Genius to me!!!

RIAA Smacked By DoS, you know i wasn't sure i believed in karma, but maybe it its real!!!

Sun To Push StarOffice For Apple's OS X, "I don't want to sell StarOffice for OS X," Siress, Sun's senior director of desktop marketing solutions said. "I want Apple to bundle it. I'll give them the code. I'd love it if I could get the team at Apple to do joint development and they distribute it at no cost--that it's their product. Nobody makes a product more beautiful on Apple than Apple."

Quick Trip Wrap Up

Didn't have time to get this all up on the road so detail will lack but here is a quick run down. After 4 attempts to find a good club headed home early, watched Fresh on HBO. Rented Pick-up Truck. Seemed appropriate. Checked out, headed to Oshkosh. On way got White Castle : ), they were $.46, last time i had them they were $.15. Passed "Mars Cheese Castle", red barns, more silos, corn fields and underground missle instilations than i could count. Fireworks were everywere, Joe bought some and got licenced by the state of WI to carry explosives. Met Joe, Alyssa, Justin, golfed far vu, bats and glow balls. Bash came by. Went out to drink in o-dub. Hit three joints and then went back to fiance of jungle dj's house to kick it and hear of here three kidneys. Next day car hop for lunch, super cool!!! Then off to cabin, explosive, high power guns, many kegs, tractors, atvs, and one whole rosted pig with its head on a stake. Need i say more... : ) Next day, bad movie k-19, more golf, food by lake, back to chi, on way D trys to win Cowerdly Lion statue at a truck stop. Fall asleep watching French connection. Next day best pizza on plannet, $50 cab ride to $15, and bump up to biz class!!! All and all groovey trip, oh btw did i mention it was hot as hell and i am covered with mosquito bites head to toe!!! But it was worth it!!! : )

Solenoid live and break dancers = good. Rest of crowd does not danse. Off to next spot. Dragon with Mr Carter. Closed! Next Crobar. Closed again! Taxi now getting pissed. Off to Buddha to be the "best club in chi", $20, line, pretentious, bad tunes. Off to Red No Five "the spot to dance" wack as hell, a dj, bar tender, D, me, and tenders 2 friends. The home of House and there is none to be found. : (

Biggest drink in the world. Sleep. Chinatown by subway. Dope grub but giant as hell portions continue to plague. Next bad news Lj is a no show. Missed flight. Second City sold out. Collet (sp?) gig no longer. Hit Synesthesia @ Big Wig Beauty Bar Chi style. Oh btw its electro with live acts. Curious!!!

Breakfast at Ginos East. VIP Sears tower. Merc exchange where D and i are escorted out as potential terrorist. "what a pretty necklas and oh ear rings" they exclaimed. Then archet boat tour. Very cool!!!

First night Hyatt dope as can be across river from Wriggley building all lit up. Walked forever to find food. Ran in to a Prudential dealer who sent us to the Gold Coast where we sat with Fred Segal makeup girls and a Made Guy and his private opra singer. All this and great wine and dope parpadella. After to the W for the Whiskey Blue. Quite wikkid. Then to Crobar, closed. Then next door to Crazy... where i meet a friend of Essential. Next stop sleep.

Wikkid giant moon over the city!!! Beautiful gothem style.

Just landed in Chicago. On way to hotel. Will be at Hyatt Regency on Wacker. Will be there with D till fri morn. Lj meets us thurs night. I am reachable by mobile, upoc, sms, and email.

Camping Trip
Alright everyone the info for the annual camping trip has arrived. Please read carefully!

Location:
Doheny SB
25300 Dana Point Harbor Dr.
Dana Point CA 92629
( 949) 496-6172

Distance: approximately 1 hour north of San Diego, 1 hour south of Los Angeles

Site#s:
8 and 9

Time:
Thursday July 18 - Sunday July 21

Bring (if you have else we'll share):
Tents Sleeping bags, Food, Drinks, Boards, Chairs, Boomboxes

For map and or directions use:
Yahoo Map, Directions From LA, Directions From SD.

Contacting the site may be difficult by phone as power and cell sites that close to the water maybe a problem. I will still be reachable until Thursday morning.

Some of this information will also be available on my voice mail, but write it down be fore you leave to be sure you have it.

Hope to see you there!!!

Alright everyone the info for the Annual camping trip has arrived.

Location:
Doheny SB
25300 Dana Point Harbor Dr.
Dana Point CA 92629

Distance: approximately 1 hour north of San Diego, 1 hour south of Los Angeles

Site#s:
8 and 9

Time:
Thursday July 18 - Sunday July 21

Bring (if you have else we'll share):
Tents Sleeping bags, Food, Drinks, Boards, Chairs, Boomboxes

For map and or directions use:
Yahoo Map, Directions From LA, Directions From SD.

Contacting the site may be difficult by phone as power and cell sites that close to the water maybe a problem. I will still be reachable until Thursday morning.

This information will also be available on my website and my voice mail.

Hope to see you there!!!

Yahoo Mail Puts Words In Your Mouth, looks like Big Brother and Echelon have a little cousin and its name is Yahoo!!!

Ziggy Stardust 30th Anniversary, happy b-day Ziggy and congrats David, can't wait to see you next month!!!

One Terabyte On a 12-inch Disk, looks like holographic storage is here!!!

Disco Roots, wikkid page on the history of disco including many sound files to listen to!!!

Apple's Black List Fiasco, as summed up by Wired.

Buzz In DC Gathers A Petition To Fight The Rave Act, "Senators Grassley and Biden on June 18th proposed the Reducing America’s Vulnerability to Ecstasy Act of 2002 (S2633). This RAVE Act is in the Senate now and is awaiting a vote. This proposed bill focuses on establishments that feature electronic dance music. Under this bill, the federal government would have the power to prosecute law-abiding, tax paying venue owners and event promoters for the actions of their customers." For the full text of this bill, please go to http://thomas.loc.gov/ and search for S 2633.

Pure Design, great stuff from designers like, Karim Rashid and Douglas Coupland!!!

Freedom Downtime, the 2600 documentary on the hacker culture and the Free Kevin movement will be screening in Los Angeles on Sunday, July 21. Kevin Mitnick, the main subject of the documentary, will be making a special appearance at the screening.

Are Mac Users Smarter? Thats a stupid question, ofcourse they are! What kind of idiot uses a PC! Those who surf the Web using a Mac tend to be better educated and make more money than their PC-using counterparts, according to a report from Nielsen/NetRatings!!!

A TiVo For Your Mac? A Macintosh software company plans to launch today the first consumer personal video recorder for Mac users.

PeerCast.org plans to say bye bye to CARP extortion!!!

7-Eleven, Today is July 11! It's 7-Eleven Day! Get your FREE Slurpee* TODAY at your friendly neighborhood 7-Eleven! * At participating stores while supplies last!!! Get there fast!!!

Blogchalking, "created after seeing the kind of hard mapping implemented by people at NYCBloggers.com and watch to the rise of WarChalking, I noticed if all bloggers mark their sites with a special sign and geographic information, maybe it would be possible to improvise a gographical searching system. So I mixed up those ideas to create what I call blogChalking."

Area Festival "My goal with the Area Festival is to put together a festival that's genuinely interesting and eclectic, and I think that with this year's line-up, we've more than surpassed ourselves." -Moby. This year the man, and i now say that and mean it, my apologies M, brings: David Bowie, Moby, Busta Rhymes, Blue Man Group, Ash, Carl Cox, John Digweed, DJ Tiësto, DJ Dan, Avalanches, Dieselboy! Not Bad!!!

Yahoo! News Semen Makes Women Feel Good, i am not making it up. State University of New York study says so!!!

Daypop, the google of blogs!!!

elgooG, google backwards...!!!looc yllaer stI

Internet Law Program,Last week the Berkman Center held their second annual Internet Law Program, an intensive course in (surprise) internet law and developments. You probably didn't spend the time/money to attend, but the topics covered are interesting enough (to me anyway) to check it out even second-hand. Dan Gillmor attended and posted his notes: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5 part 1 and Day 5 part 2. Donna Wentworth was there, trying to record the seminar in real-time; hopefully she's learned her lesson. There is tons of interesting stuff in there - it's worth your time to read through if you have any interest in the subject matter at all.

Rep. Boucher Outlines 'Fair Use' Fight, moving to strengthen "fair use" provisions under federal copyright law, US Congressman Boucher said he is introducing a bill that would essentially restrict the record industry from selling copy-protected CDs. Very good review of his proposal and its differences from current law! Also on the subject check Janis Ian, famous songwriter and artist, on free music downloads, the music industry and the evils of the RIAA in this article. Also see Courtney Love's speech at Salon on basically the same.

Gnutella Pioneer Gene Kan Dies. Kan, 25, rose to prominence online as one of the most articulate spokesmen for the Gnutella file-swapping community at the height of the Internet's love affair with peer-to-peer software. Kan died June 29.

Project Cryo, all i can say is fukin cool!!!

Danish Court Rules Deep Linking Illegal, first beer that knocks me on my ass now a court i am terified of. Be afriad be very afraid. The Danish are coming!!!

Russia Wants To Go To Mars By 2014, and they say they can do it for only $20 billion. Heres my $20!!!

Overpeer Spewing Bogus Files on P2P Networks, sounds like a clear case of computer fraud and abuse!!!

Evolved Keyboard, not that i am in any way a fan of the keyboard but one that was derived from a genetic algorithim might get me interested! Bye bye QWERTY!!!

US House of Representatives XML and Legislative Documents, looks like Congress has made some DTDs that are free for all!!!

Dynamism.com Next Generation Japanese Notebooks and Electronics, for thoes who cant make it to Akihabara!!!

2600 And EFF Drop DECSS Supreme Court Appeal, "Yes, it's true. After numerous consultations with our legal team and all kinds of internal debate, we have decided that we've gotten the DeCSS case as far as we can. We won't be bringing it to the Supreme Court." It is a truly sad day....

Falun Gong Hacks Chinese Satellite, for thoes who remember zipping, its alive and well in China!!!

OPENdj, a java based webcast solution!!!

Apple Buys Again, this time its Emagic, makers of logic!!!

Streamer, a 2p2 broadcasting solution, may have found a solution to CARP and the RIAA. With the tag line, pirate radio for the digital age, they've released a peer to peer streaming radio solution and claim that it is untracable/closable!!!