Zero to (free) shopping cart in sixty minutes

Zero to (free) shopping cart in sixty minutes: "This cycle can feasibly be completed in under an hour; most of the time is spent filling out forms over and over again.  PayPal account verification steps may take up to 5 business days, though, but that shouldn't prevent purchases from taking place."

BBC - Languages

BBC - Languages - Homepage: learn languages from the bbc!!!

John Gilmore's Search for the Mandatory ID Law

John Gilmore's Search for the Mandatory ID Law: "'John Gilmore, the millionare who cofounded the EFF, has been prohibited from travelling because he refused to show an ID while boarding an airplane. He's been under this self-imposed ban since 2002. From the article: 'The gate agent asked for his ID. Gilmore asked her why. It is the law, she said. Gilmore asked to see the law. Nobody could produce a copy. To date, nobody has. The regulation that mandates ID at airports is 'Sensitive Security Information.' The law, as it turns out, is unavailable for inspection. What started out as a weekend trip to Washington became a crawl through the courts in search of an answer to Gilmore's question: Why?'"

GUI Pioneer Jef Raskin Has Passed Away

GUI Pioneer Jef Raskin Has Passed Away: "'Jef Raskin, GUI pioneer, interface expert, Apple employee #31, and the man most credited with the creation of the Apple Macintosh, died of cancer on Saturday February 26, 2005. It was Raskin who named it after his favorite fruit, the McIntosh apple, although he said that he changed the spelling to 'Macintosh' to avoid potential copyright conflicts with McIntosh, the audio equipment manufacturer.'"

:(

Interview With Lawrence Lessig On Future Rights

Interview With Lawrence Lessig On Future Rights: "'In an interview with the O'Reilly Network Mr. Lessig discusses many current issues that may have future legal implications. He starts with MGM's request for Certiorari in the Grokster case. His conclusion is that ReplayTV was forced out of business by a legal challenge, not a legal victory. Lessig continues on to discuss, among other things, The Creative Commons and their new Sampling License and how it may affect the way that some movies and music, that contain samples from other sources, are made in the future. From the article: 'So the same act of creativity in some sense, you know, taking, creating, mixing out of what other people do, is legal in the text world and illegal in the digital media world.''"

the man speakith, pay attention!!!

DRM for 1'3" of Silence

DRM for 1'3" of Silence: "'In the latest entry in the battle over Digital Rights Management, a fellow has blatantly ripped off a 'tune' from the iTunes Store. 'Tune' is 1 minute 3 seconds of silence. To compound his crime, he has posted the tune on his web site for anyone to download. I downloaded it to iTunes, and it played just fine (but now I suppose I'm a criminal, too). I wonder what John Cage and Mike Batt would have to say about this? Will lawyers for Apple or Ciccone Youth send a C&D letter? If I were to make my own MP3 silent tune of exactly the same length and put it online, would I be infringing their copyright?'"

interesting problem this brings up...more later.

Online anonymity

Online anonymity: "My cow-orker Fred von Lohmann's latest Law.com column is a stirring call-to-arms in defense of online anonymity: '...your Internet Service Provider knows you're not a dog. And it knows your name, address and telephone number.' In one recent case, the lawsuit and subpoena were issued in response to someone opining on an online message board that the president of a corporation had 'a Napoleon complex.' In another, the lawsuit was based on a statement that the company's executives were getting rich while the stock price was in free fall. Each of these suits was dropped once it became clear that the anonymous speaker was going to court to protect his identity, suggesting that the real purpose of the litigation was to discover whether the statements were made by employees so that the company could retaliate against them. The lawsuit was mere pretext for extra-judicial punishment.
Though these two suits were dropped, there was a sad postscript: postings to both of the message boards involved dropped off dramatically once word of the lawsuit got out, and still haven't returned to their previous levels. Courts across the country are beginning to develop some basic rules about when the anonymity of an online speaker should be protected and when it should be breached. Specifically, the emerging test, best articulated in a New Jersey appellate decision called Dendrite, holds that when a court is faced with a subpoena aimed at identifying an anonymous speaker, the court should (1) provide notice to the potential defendant and an opportunity to defend his anonymity via a motion to quash; (2) require the plaintiff to specify the statements that allegedly violate its rights; (3) review the complaint to ensure that it states a cause of action based on each statement and against each defendant; (4) require the plaintiff to produce evidence supporting each element of its claims, and (5) balance the equities, weighing the strength of plaintiff's evidence and the potential harm to the plaintiff if the subpoena is quashed against the harm to the defendant from losing his right to remain anonymous."

UK tops poll for online TV pirates

UK tops poll for online TV pirates : "The UK is the largest downloader of online pirate TV programmes in the world, with more than two-thirds of all pirated videos obtained from BitTorrent networks, according to new research."

Psychedelic medicine

Psychedelic medicine: "
New Scientist has a long article about the renewed interest among scientists in the possible medical uses of psychedelic drugs like LSD, Psilocybin, DMT, and Ketamine:
Since 2001, psychiatrist Francisco Moreno of the University of Arizona in Tucson has been testing psilocybin as a treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder. Psychotherapy and antidepressants such as Prozac help many patients, but some have such severe symptoms and are so resistant to treatment that they turn to electroshock therapy and even brain surgery. As with the work on cluster headaches, Moreno's study was motivated by reports from people with OCD that psilocybin relieves their symptoms. So far, Moreno has given both sub-psychedelic and psychedelic doses of pure psilocybin to nine treatment-resistant OCD subjects, in a total of 29 therapy sessions. His preliminary findings suggest firstly that it is safe to ingest psilocybin, which was a primary concern of the trial. Beyond that, Moreno calls his results 'promising', but won't discuss them further, since he plans to submit a paper to a peer-reviewed journal this year."

Gator CPO at the Department of Homeland Security

Gator CPO at the Department of Homeland Security: "'D. Reed Freeman, the 'Chief Privacy Officer' of Claria Networks (formerly Gator), the creators of the pervasive spyware package GAIN, has been appointed to the Department of Homeland Security's 'Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee'.'"

the inventor of the drive by download, one that probably could have been brought up on violations of the computer fraud and abuse act is going to run the nations privacy office, wow!!!

BBC has Infocom's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

BBC has Infocom's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: "'At the BBC they have the Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, Infocom game from 1984, written by Douglas Adams. Its a text based adventure game, reminiscent of games from way back when. The two episode game works pretty well even ported to flash.'"

How To Steal Wi-Fi

How To Steal Wi-Fi - And how to keep the neighbors from stealing yours. By Paul Boutin: i like steal this wifi better!!!

We'll always have Paris...

three different emails tonight. all paris' fon book!!! wow!!! but hey feeling slighted, i wasn't listed ;)

Blink-182 calls it quits, for now

Blink-182 calls it quits, for now: "California pop-punk trio Blink-182, famed for its practical jokes and disdain for clothing, has gone on 'indefinite hiatus,' with no plans to work together again, its Geffen Records label said Tuesday. Singer-guitarist Tom DeLonge, singer-bassist Mark Hoppus and drummer Travis Barker want to 'spend some time enjoying the fruits of their labors with loved ones' after a decade of working together nonstop, the statement added. 'While there is no set plan for the band to begin working together again, no one knows what tomorrow may bring,' it said. San Diego-based Blink-182, cast in the same mold as Grammy-winning punk combo Green Day, enjoyed major success with such tunes as 'What's My Age Again?' and 'All the Small Things,' winning an MTV Video Music Award for the latter tune."

1960s Brazilian pop treasure-trove

1960s Brazilian pop treasure-trove: "1960s Brazilian pop treasure-trove
This webpage of a 1960s Brazilian pop fan contains scans of dozens of LPs along with downloadable MP3s of selected tracks. They're amazing."

The Long Tail

The Long Tail: "How to Sell Your Book, CD, or DVD on Amazon Micro-niche, long-tail publishing"

Court Says FCC Out-of-Bounds With Digital TV

Court Says FCC Out-of-Bounds With Digital TV: "'A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday stated that regulators had overstepped their authority by imposing a rule designed to limit the copying of digital television programs.' From the article: 'The FCC rule aims to limit people from sending copies of digital television programs over the Internet. The FCC has said copyright protections are needed to help speed the adoption of digital television.'"

Martian Sea Discovered

Martian Sea Discovered: "'New Scientist is reporting that a large sea of frozen ice (between 800 and 900 km in size and 45 m deep) has been discovered by the ESA's Mars Express Probe. Here's the kicker: the sea of block ice is only five degrees away from the Martian equator. New Scientist also links to a PDF of a paper to be presented next month about the finding.' Update: 02/21 15:30 GMT by T: Note: that's 45 meters deep, not 45 kilometers deep."

QuickTime for cell phones in Japan

QuickTime for cell phones in Japan: "One of the world's biggest mobile phone operator's, Japan's NTT DoCoMo and Apple announced on this week series of 3G phones in Japan that use 3GPP, a mobile phone video standard based on MPEG-4. Apparently Apple's QuickTime core will act as a decoder in these phones. "

Life Enhancement Products Presents: NeoFiles

Life Enhancement Products Presents: NeoFiles: "By R.U. Sirius" wow i missed this guy, glad i found something hes working on...it's been too long. now i just have to find out what genesis is working on!!! ;)

UK Leads in TV Show Downloading

UK Leads in TV Show Downloading: "'Britain has emerged as the world's biggest market for downloading pirated TV, with Australia being the second and the U.S. sitting at third. Among the top pirated TV shows, '24' ranks the first. 'The Simpsons,' 'Enterprise,' 'Stargate SG-1' and 'Battlestar Galactica' are also among the top hitters.' 'Pirated' seems a strong word, at least for watching those programs which have been beamed (unencrypted) through my body. Where can I pay a quarter per show for moderate-quality, sanctioned torrent files?"

MDMA for US soldiers

MDMA for US soldiers: "MDMA for US soldiers Richard Kadrey sez: 'American soldiers traumatised by fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan are to be offered the drug ecstasy to help free them of flashbacks and recurring nightmares.'"

to paraphrase mike's on point sarcasm...guess it does have therapeutic effects after all!!!

CBGB may close due to rising real estate costs

CBGB may close due to rising real estate costs: "The legendary club that played a central role in careers of countless punk and new wave acts -- Blondie, The Ramones, Patti Smith -- may close. The culprit: rent hikes throughout the surrounding Bowery 'hood. I smoked many an unfiltered cigarette at CBGBs when I was a teen. We used to always try to exhale through our nose piercings. Good times. Link to blurb on aversion.com which references a Village Voice article I can't find. Here's a related story in the NYT (site reg required): Link. CBGB, as The Village Voice reported this week, is facing a lease renewal in August, and its landlord has nearly doubled the rent, to about $40,000 a month, said Lisa Kristal, a lawyer and the daughter of Hilly Kristal, who opened the club in 1973."

Add RSS Headlines to your Weblog

Add RSS Headlines to your Weblog: "This article explains how to create a custom component which displays RSS headlines and insert the component into your weblog."

Orbital Resort to Launch by 2010

Orbital Resort to Launch by 2010: "'Popular Science has a cover feature on self-made billionaire and space enthusiast Robert Bigelow (who's been mentioned before on Slashdot). The article has new info on Bigelow's plans to launch a 'CSS Skywalker' orbital resort by 2010 and sell space habitats to others, such as scientists, manufacturers, Hollywood producers, and countries. The habitats will be made of inflatable modules with multilayered kevlar-like walls. A prototype habitat will be launching on a SpaceX Falcon V next year. To help ensure cost-effective access to the station, Bigelow is also running the $50 million America's Space Prize. In the long run, he plans to use the modules as the basis for space yachts and moon cruisers.'"

Earth Observatory

Earth Observatory: : "The purpose of NASA's Earth Observatory is to provide a freely-accessible publication on the Internet where the public can obtain new satellite imagery and scientific information about our home planet. The focus is on Earth's climate and environmental change. In particular, we hope our site is useful to public media and educators. Any and all materials published on the Earth Observatory are freely available for re-publication or re-use, except where copyright is indicated. We ask that NASA's Earth Observatory be given credit for its original materials."

Stonehenge Version 2.0 Completed

Stonehenge Version 2.0 Completed: "The Stonehenge project previously mentioned has been completed near Wellington, New Zealand. This newer version utilises multiple ancient astronomical technologies (scroll down) and the BBC reports it is wired for sound"

Ska and Bollywood for the Skeptical

Ska and Bollywood for the Skeptical: "Oh, this is quite some gem. A while back on Boing Boing, we pointed to 'Bollywood for the Skeptical,' a fan-built, online primer to Indian film music for the 'Bo-curious,' with MP3s, links, grammar, images, and a terrific tutorial. Two months later, reader Hallie says: 'In the vein of 'Bollywood for the Skeptical' created by David Boyk (a friend of ours), my roommate James has put together a great intro to ska.'"

dev

dev: i started a little spot to hold all the code that i have either found some where and was useful or that i have thrown together recently. entries include:

ipod copying tool (applescript req.)
sms sending tool (applescript & yahoo account req.)
sms tool adapted for webpages (javascript & yahoo account req.)
bookmark drop-down list (javascript req.)
translation for webpage (html & accesses google)

as i put more i may postem. but from now on there will always be a link to my development section on the right hand side of the page under "me".

next i think i am gona make the translate tool in to a bookmarklet!!!

UPDATED: bookmarklet added

Convert characters to Unicode

Convert characters to Unicode: "This tool will convert Chinese characters (and just about everything else, including Japanese hiragana, katakana, and kanji; tonal Hanyu Pinyin; and Cyrillic script) into the decimal (not hex) form of Unicode numerical character references (NCRs). These NCRs can then be used in Web pages, with greater ease than the Chinese characters themselves for those whose operating systems or other software don't handle double-byte text well."

Music Band Fonts

Music Band Fonts: free fonts inspired by band logos!!!

marv on record, archive

marv on record, archive: "Burning through Napster's collection, free

Hundreds of music CDs, zero dollars*, obtained legally.
*Not including the cost of blank CDs

Practical how to:
(credit goes to warlock1711 of club.cdfreaks.com for discovering this loophole)

0. Download and install Napster, sign up for 14 day free trial.

1. Download and install Winamp

2. Download and install the Winamp Plug-in Output Stacker

3. Open Winamp Options->Plug-ins->Output->Dietmar's Output Stacker->Configure
a. Add out_ds.dll from Winamp/Plug-ins folder
b. Add out_disk.dll from Winamp/Plug-ins folder
c. Select out_disk.dll in the Output Stacker->Configure
d. Set the output directory and output file mode to Force WAV file
e. Exit preferences

4. Load downloaded Napster protected WMAs into your Winamp playlist

5. Press play and each file will be converted to WAV as it plays

6. Burn WAVs to CD with your favorite burning program

Theoretical fun:

Three computers, one fast networked drive, and a few dedicated people: Turning Napster's 14 day free trial into 252 full 80 minute CDs of free music.

Each song can only be burned after the duration of the track length has elapsed in realtime:

14 day trial = 336 hours = 20,160 minutes of potential music = 252 80 minute CDs

Computer 1: Dedicated to downloading new music off of Napster
Computer 2: Dedicated to building WAV files for each CD
Computer 3: Dedicated to burning CDs

All computers share one fast networked drive where new files are downloaded to, converted WAVs are saved to, and CDs are burned from."

makes drm just seem a bit pointless no?

underground tokyo guidebook -- Tokyo, underground, guide book, punk, hentai, shinjuku, harajuku, tourism, anime, hardcore, japan, akihabara

underground tokyo guidebook -- Tokyo, underground, guide book, punk, hentai, shinjuku, harajuku, tourism, anime, hardcore, japan, akihabara: "TOKYO DAMAGE REPORT Travel guide."

Web-Only Album Wins Grammy

Web-Only Album Wins Grammy: "'Jazz artist Maria Schneider won a Grammy last night for her album 'Concert in the Garden.' What makes this unusual, according to CNET, is that she might be the first artist ever to win a Grammy for an album distributed solely on the Web. None of the sales were in record stores, and the album was financed through Artist Share.'"

Digital Life and Evolution

Digital Life and Evolution: "'Discover Magazine has a story about The Digital Evolution Lab at Michigan State University. Scientists there have created virus-like computer programs that replicate, mutate randomly, and compete with each other... in other words, they evolve. Among such feats as learning to add and compare numbers, these digital life forms also once avoided scientists attempts at 'killing' them, by playing dead. You can download the project yourself from SourceForge.' We first mentioned this in early 2003, but it appears to have developed a good deal since then."

MUNI cops and SFPD enforce non-existent, unconstitutional photography ban

MUNI cops and SFPD enforce non-existent, unconstitutional photography ban: "MUNI cops and SFPD enforce non-existent, unconstitutional photography ban
Steve, a freelance photographer, was stopped while taking pictures in a San Francisco MUNI station, told that he was breaking a post-9/11 law against photographing San Francisco's public transit. He challenged the MUNI cops to name the law he was breaking, aware that such a law was unconstitutional, and they -- unsurprisingly -- couldn't identify the law. That is because there is no law. They were lying. So then they called the real cops, who proceeded to dress Steve down for breaking this nonexistent law -- for being a troublemaker who wanted to exercise his constitutional rights and ply his trade -- and threaten to trump up a trespassing charge and jail him for the weekend if he didn't meekly acquiesce. Officer Primiano expressed extreme frustration with me as soon as I began speaking of my rights to photograph in public places. She wanted to debate the wisdom of my taking pictures and asserted that in the wake of the Sept 11th attacks on our country, I should be more interested in aiding officials in their efforts to increase security than my rights as a citizen or journalist. Despite my calm statement of my side of the issue, Officer Primiano waved her hands in the air, stated, 'This guy is really pissing me off', and walked away, leaving Officer Ryan to talk to me. Luckily he exhibited a more rational, professional demeanor.  However Officer Ryan was of the opinion that I should not be taking photographs. I explained to him that I didn't want to argue the wisdom of my taking photographs, or the efficacy of a ban on photography in the MUNI System should one exist. All I was concerned with was the legality of my actions. If I had in fact committed a crime by taking photographs, I should (and in fact wanted to) be cited under the relevant law so that I could then pursue the matter in the courts and assert my First Amendment rights. Officer Ryan told me in a very straightforward manner that he did not wish to allow me the opportunity to assert my constitutional rights in court. After walking over to the group of Fare Inspectors and BART Police Officers, Officer Ryan returned to speak to me. He expressed his frustration at the situation and me by saying: 'Would it have been so difficult for you to just stop taking photographs when these guys told you to stop? If you weren't on your soapbox, I'd be out fighting real crime rather than standing around here dealing with you.' He expounded further, 'Even if there is no law forbidding photography in the MUNI System, the Fare Inspectors have the right to refuse you service for any reason they choose, including taking photographs. Once they refuse you service they can swear out a citizens arrest for trespassing. I, or other officers, will book you and you'll spend the rest of your weekend in jail. It won't be for taking photographs, so your weekend would be ruined yet you'd never get a chance to argue the matter of taking photographs before a judge.'"

The Photographer's Right - A Downloadable Flyer

The Photographer's Right - A Downloadable Flyer: "Your Rights When Stopped or Confronted for Photography; The right to take photographs is now under assault more than ever. People are being stopped, harassed, and even intimidated into handing over their personal property simply because they were taking photographs of subjects that made other people uncomfortable. Recent examples have included photographing industrial plants, bridges, and bus stations. For the most part, attempts to restrict photography are based on misguided fears about the supposed dangers that unrestricted photography presents to society."

Random Number Generator That Sees Into the Future

Random Number Generator That Sees Into the Future: "'Red Nova news has an interesting article about a random number generating black box that may be able to see into the future. From the article: 'according to a growing band of top scientists, this box has quite extraordinary powers. It is, they claim, the 'eye' of a machine that appears capable of peering into the future and predicting major world events'.'"

Jailed for using a nonstandard browser

Jailed for using a nonstandard browser: "A Londonder made a tsnuami-relief donation using lynx -- a text-based browser used by the blind, Unix-users and others -- on Sun's Solaris operating system. The site-operator decided that this 'unusual' event in the system log indicated a hack-attempt, and the police broke down the donor's door and arrested him. From a mailing list:
For donating to a Tsunami appeal using Lynx on Solaris 10. BT [British Telecom] who run the donation management system misread an access log and saw hmm thats a non standard browser not identifying it's type and it's doing strange things. Trace that IP. Arrest that hacker."

GALAXY COLLISIONS AWAKEN DORMANT BLACK HOLES

GALAXY COLLISIONS AWAKEN DORMANT BLACK HOLES: "This computer animation visualises the full time evolution of a galaxy collision simulation of two spiral galaxies that host supermassive black holes at their centres. Only the gas distribution in the galaxies is shown. As in the figure, brightness represents gas density while the colour hue indicates gas temperature."

Round 2 begins for MPAA's P2P suits

Round 2 begins for MPAA's P2P suits: "The MPAA filed its second wave of lawsuits and proceedings against operators of BitTorrent and eDonkey servers, the association announced Thursday, with particular attention to sites that charge subscription fees. These and other actions are designed to disable peer-to-peer file-trading activities that infringe copyright. In addition, the MPAA announced that law enforcement authorities in Austria joined France, the Netherlands and Finland as countries that have taken criminal action against operators of such servers in their own countries."

North Korea Admits to Having Nuclear Weapons

North Korea Admits to Having Nuclear Weapons: "'North Korea has now admitted to possessing nuclear weapons. Government officials there claimed that they are needed as defense from an increasingly hostile attitude from Washington. It was also stated that N. Korea will not be reentering negotiations on disarmament for the foreseeable future. '"

Saab Develops 'Alcokey' Breathalyser

Saab Develops 'Alcokey' Breathalyser: "SAAB IS DEVELOPING an innovative car key that doubles up as a miniature breathalyser to prevent potential drink drivers from starting their cars. What makes the Saab ‘Alcokey’ unique is its size and that it will be integrated into the car key – unlike more costly and complicated alcohol detecting devices fitted to a car’s dashboard or door locks. Saab Alcokey is being trialed in Sweden with the support of the influential Swedish National Road Administration. Alcokey’s ease of use and relative affordability – around $400 – means it could be offered as an accessory through Saab dealers if the trials prove successful."

Panoramic Photos From The Apollo Missions

Panoramic Photos From The Apollo Missions: "'This link lets you experience the moon just as the Apollo missions' astronauts did -- almost as you were there -- with QuickTime panorama views. Less known is that during all the missions they made image sequences which with todays computer technics can be stitched together into 360-degree interactive panoramas giving you the possibility to view the moon almost as you were there. Many of these panoramas have been published before, but in low resolution and displayed in small sizes. During the last year the original films have been rescanned in large resolution and the Apollo 11 images were released the week before the 35 year anniversary.'"

The Birth of Electronic Music

The Birth of Electronic Music: "'NPR has a story up about the first musicians to compose electronic music. In 1947, Louis and Bebe Barron received an early tape recorder as a wedding present. About the same time, Louis Barron became interested in Norbert Wiener's book Cybernetics and its thesis of common elements in living and artificial systems. This led the Barrons to create a new kind of music using electronic circuits and painstakingly edited magnetic tapes. The Barrons music was featured in various avant-garde records and movies, and finally reached a mass audience in the Science Fiction classic Forbidden Planet.'"

Patients get Solar Implants in Eyes

Patients get Solar Implants in Eyes: "'As reported at Science Blog, ophthalmologists have implanted Artificial Silicon Retina microchips in the eyes of five patients to treat vision loss caused by retinitis pigmentosa. The implant is a 2mm chip that contains about 5,000 microscopic solar cells that convert light into electrical impulses. Already some patients have experienced improvements such as not bumping into objects around the house, and being able to read the time on a clock.'
"

Use A Regular Phone For Cellphone Calls

Use A Regular Phone For Cellphone Calls: "'Not too long ago I decided to get rid of my landline, however I miss being able to make a call with a regular phone, especially long calls that might drain my battery. It would also be nice if I didn't have to hunt for my cellphone at home when it rings. Well, it looks like there is a simple solution with a Cell Socket, a cradle for your cellphone that can be used to attach your cell line to one or more regular phones.' Even better, for those with a landline or VoIP phone, would be a system that automatically picks the cheapest route out for any given call.
"

The Economist On The Economics of Sharing

The Economist On The Economics of Sharing: "'The Economist, reliably the most insightful English-language news publication, discusses the economics of sharing, from OSS programmers' sharing time, to P2P users' sharing disk space and bandwidth. ' True indeed; one of the main supports for the article comes from Yochai Benkler latest piece, which is excellent."

BitTorrent Community After SuprNova Shutdown

BitTorrent Community After SuprNova Shutdown: "'Folks from MonkeyMethods.org have researched the BitTorrent world after many popular destinations (SuprNova among others) have been shut down. Since BitTorrent always relied on the presence of trackers and servers hosting them, MonkeyMethods decided to see whether the shutdown impacted the BitTorrent community. So has the shutdown of centralized SuprNova had any impact? 'In this case, centralization is a feature, not a necessity. Just look at del.icio.us most popular and you'll see BitTorrent sites every couple days, as people uncover new places to find the files they're looking for.''"

Shiny Shiny

Shiny Shiny: gadget guide for chicks!!! wikkid!!!