In The Trenches, dope blog with some really cool fotogs!!!

RIAA's case of mistaken identity?, "The trade association confirmed Wednesday that it had withdrawn its suit against Boston-area senior citizen Sarah Ward, who claimed that she could not possibly have been involved in the file-swapping incident attributed to her. Among other objections, Ward is a Macintosh computer user, and there is no Apple version of the Kazaa file-trading software she is supposed to have used, according to attorneys who have spoken to the woman."

wow glad that the dmca and Comcast are requiring probable cause!!! :(

MS Psychologist on How We Read, "In another follow-up to Can You Raed Tihs? Microsoft's Kevin Larson, a cognitive psychologist, dissected the main hypotheses on how we read at ATypI's Vancouver Typography conference. 'Kevin supports the 'parallel letter recognition' model. People don't he says, recognise whole-word shapes. Instead the recognise each of the letter components and then make a series of best-guesses on the information returned to assemble, first, phonemes and then words.' So what about the case of patterned re-ordering, aka the counter example to Can You Raed Tihs?"

this explains why people can understand me when i type!!! :)

Ultra High Definition Video, "Engineers at the Japanese Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) have developed a prototype ultra high definition video (UHDV) system. How good is it? When it was shown to the public, some viewers experienced nausea because of the ultra realistic visual effect of speed without the usual physical sensation of movement. 18 minutes of UHDV takes up 3.5 terabytes. 4,000 horizontal scanlines. Excellent."

Can you say dope!!!

Magnatune: try before you buy MP3 music, "We're a record label. But we're not evil.

We call it 'try before you buy.' It's the shareware model applied to music. Listen to hundreds of MP3'd albums from our artists. Or try our genre-based radio stations. If you like what you hear, buy our music online for as little as $5 an album or license our music for commercial use. Artists get a full 50% of the purchase price. And unlike most record labels, our artists keep their rights to their music.

Founded by musicians, for musicians.

No major label connections.

We are not evil. "

sounds very very interesting!!!

British rock star Robert Palmer dies at 54

British rock star Robert Palmer dies at 54, :(

Kazaa Sues Record Labels, CNN is reporting that Kazaa is suing the record companies, claiming that they used an illegal client to log in to the P2P network - an interesting twist." The lawsuit also claims "...efforts to combat piracy on Kazaa violated terms for using the network!!!

see i knew some one would bring up misuse of the network, they have to be violating some licence or computer intrusion statute. just haven't had time to think it out yet!!!

Mac Viruses By The Numbers, Word Macro: 553, Classic Mac: 26, OS X: Zero. Now the methodology has a few flaws but the point is well taken and one people should heed. Even if the math is off by a 30% there is still such a difference, makes one wonder why we have a gov't that until recently used m$ in place of mac on desktops, in the battle field, on battles ships (see earlier posts), and looks like they closed down the m$ driven visa application system this week too. hummm interesting!!!

BigChampagne, Online Media Measurement, they are watching! But most importantly, they are monitizing!!!

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tonight, emily, ht, brian, the yeah yeah yeahs (think '78 cbgb), the greek and the stripes! and they are getting better!!!

oops forgot to mention, and not for lack of impact. psych furs were great on sat!!!

The Origin of Murphy's Law, was just talking about this!!!

the violent femmes fun as ever. havven't seen jenn and tree that happy and bouncy in quite some time. very nice!!!

hot hot heat as promised and give em and album or two. the performance was great and the ideas really good. very british sounding to me ala pulp, eventhough they are canadian. biran says phrasing reminds him of oingo boingo. definitely a unique pop sound. they grow to be fine kids.

echo was well FUCKING AMAZING!!!! seen footage, heard tapes but oh my god!!! despight the years and shake ups that band still top!!! i absolutely will kill to see them again so please don't take a ticket that might be mine or have to hit you in the tooth with a spoon!

duran duran, what can you say they are duran fucking duran! i have been listening to them since their debut album, it was the first vinal album (i had 8-tracks before that) i ever owned. i won it in a limo contest at a b-day party when i was a wee lad. despight a few tech problems, they were increadible. nothing quite feels like seeing a band of that influence after such a long time playing together and looking like they just love it and each other. they are cool. as in definition of.

and last up, the cure with one of the coolest set of obscure great album tracks in a long time. every time i see them its the hits and a couple hear and there not predicted but wow!!! made brians day, his fav played. i am still waiting to hear push live but who knows. so robert if you reading this next time you in la...hook a brother up. and thank you mr. smith for a wonderful show, they just get better evertime they come. age don't got nothin, crazy too, cuz i remeber when robert turned 30. i thought holy shit man, that guys old hows he gona make music still thats relevant to me, things i'll wana hear. well i'm 30 now he's 44, the cure is still the shit and i will probably always feel that way about tunes. somethings are timeless. they're comming round next year, can i reserve a ticket now?!!!

more tomorrow. burnt. left at 9am home now 520am.

big up to mouse! big up to mr markman, tree, and jenn!

big up to all the bands dope dope show all around good fun for the kids!!!

Food and drink. Thx mouse! Sean hanson. Mark almond eh. Bothers jenn. General public. Word. Dashboard! Again i say VAGRANT!!! Interpol wow can they channel. Ups to barney hooky steven and of course ian! Look for good stuff from the rain coats.

Dramarama just fucking rocked shit like it was 1989! Never to old to rock! Dashboard thank you vagrant!!! Now bow wow wow! Oh shit! Energy!!!

Hanging with mouse and pete. They hooked it up! Big ups! Jet sounding good but need to want it. But potential in a smaller venue. Jenn says acdc. Thats australia. Give em a small smoky venue and a crowd up for it. Expect good tings.

today is the big day!!! inland invasion :) if i have connectivity at the venue, the will be live updates!!!

Astronomer Tips Major Tokyo Quake - Sep. 15, 2003 and guess what Strong Earthquake Rocks Tokyo - Sep. 20, 2003!!! um ok, thats fukin crazy!!!

FilmWise

FilmWise, film geek heaven. think you know your shit, try their "invisibles" quizes. these guys got seriously way way to much time on their hands, but i am glad!!!

Neuron News from DPRI

Neuron News from DPRI, new site to me. current news, references and realistic commentary related to brain science and neurotechnology. looks dope!!!

Upgrade the Human out of Existence, an extension of my recent fascination with who owns that created by a machine. most i have talked to believe it should be owned by the human who owns the machine. but what happens when the human who owns the machine is no longer human but machine?!!!

kiss100, looking like it may have better programing than radio1 these days, adam f, hype, digweed. also check the new 1xtra looks good!!!

BlogSnob, re-added. BlogSnob™ is an experimental service for members of the blogging community. It enables you to tell everyone Out There about your blog, thru simple textbased ads. It's FREE, it's fast, and it's downright simple. Besides, it's a great way to get to know about new blogs! How this works, is quite simple. You have a  personal website. You insert a simple piece of code into your page. Everytime someone views your site, a small text ad of another blog shows up on your page.

Inland Invasion, i am headed back to high school!!!

ATP, its back! LA2003 Curated by Matt Groening. All Tomorrow's Parties Festival is rescheduled for Nov. 8 and 9 at the Queen Mary!!!

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Transistor Lounge

Buffalo Wild Wings Sauces, some of the worlds best. Right up there with Arby's Sauce, Freebirds BBQ and Rooster! Now i don't have to travel all the way to Vegas!!!

if anyone is looking, here is my schedual. all flights are jet blue. i am reachable by usual mobile methods. :)

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new idea about the new pending apple laptops. they have this cool feature on the 17 inch that illuminates the keyboard when ambient light is low.

why not extend that technology. here is what i propose.

change the lcd from a transmission (light from back) to a transflexive (light from back and front) or reflexive (light from front). this would allow increased visibility in high light situations, near a window or outside. at the same time it would conserve battery life. the sensors currently in use to light the keys could be used to light the back in the transflexive or the sides of the display in the reflexive model.

anyway just a thought!!! any takers?

Back after a long hiatus. School's taking up a lot of time. Lots of little side projects going on too. But all is well and much fun is being had.

Big ups to all who came out for my big b-day! Thank you too all of you! My friends rock!!!

Here are some pictures and movies of the big big super happy super happy fun time. :) Enjoy!!!