Taget Hits The Mark, thanks D for sending this in. Looks like Targets new efforts are making serious gains in the till!!!

Off line for few days. Box died need to sort it out. : (

The Bot Who Loved Me, more CCAN in the news! This time Salon quotes Joe!!!

BBC - 1Xtra Launches Aug. 16, "This summer the BBC is bringing fans of black music the station they have been waiting for. 1Xtra is a new digital service bringing the public the best in black music from both sides of the Atlantic including: Hip Hop, RnB, UK Garage, Drum & Bass, and Dancehall"

Playstation 3 Chip The "Cell" Nears Completion, Cell's capabilities will allow it to deliver one trillion calculations per second (teraflop) or more of floating-point calculations. It will have the ability to do north of 1 trillion mathematical calculations per second, roughly 100 times more than a single Pentium 4 chip running at 2.5GHz.

Possible Evidence of Martian Bacteria, looks like the little green men are in fact very, very little!!!

Yar's Revenge, and i was saying electro clash and the 80's revival was 20yrs too late. Boyu was I wrong, the kids who make tunes with this, WOW!!! Go give a listen!!!

Los Angeles Times is running a front page story on the RAVE Act, very much worth the read (sory no link, i will not support that paper but that story is for another time). In any case get it online or in non-electronic form. This legislation is a bastardization of existing "crack house laws" that would potentially impose criminal liability on anyone who organizes an event where the that person knows drugs may be used!!! I am supprised there is nothing in there about a "sucession of repetative beats" ; ) and big up to Mike K for the drop!!!

Dictionary.com/doer, just plain creepy!!!

BBC - OneMusic Studio, cool making music toys from the other side of the pond!!!

TerraFly, wana see your place from space!!!

ONE-T accueil, don't ask just, well, he's 13, he's a dj, he's gonna fuck the "french touch", he's One-T!!! Thanks Big Cookie!!!

Bush Adviser Encourages Hacking Richard Clarke, President Bush computer security advisor, told hackers at the Black Hat conference that most security holes in software are not found by the software maker. "Some of us, here in this room, have an obligation to find the vulnerabilities," Clarke said. WOW!!! Luck encouraging DMCA violations is not against the law, oh wait, maybe it contributory!!!

Education Push Coming For OSX, this article keyed off an idea in my head. .Mac is recieving a hell of a lot of flack for its price, which i for one think is quite reasonable considering the features (email, web publishing/storage, net synch, and virus protection). Anyway what did occur to me is that even if this is not going to be a hit at home or in biz, this is amazing for ed. I had huge problems in all my computer related classes with storage and web publishing. This would outsource all that to Apple, not bad. Simplicity = good!!!

Asteroid Fly-By On August 18, i love a good fireworks show!!!

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!!!

Pledge of Allegiance Ruled Unconstitutional by an appelate level court!!!

Comparison Of Google To Teoma, SearchEngineWatch.com compared the good and the bad of both engines. They wrote the cool thing about Teoma is that its community-seeking behavior is both query-specific, and happens in real time. Whenever you type in a query, we're actually looking for the communities after you type the query. Teoma's approach differs from Google's, which uses a similar, but more static ranking system. It's also unlike the approach taken by Northern Light that classify web pages based on pre-defined categories!!!

Shocked At Payola, Slashdot makes a couple of pointers to some new articles on the subject. Parrticularly timely given recient rate setting done for webcasting!!!

Lawmaker: Let Studios Hack P2P Nets, Congressman Berman suggests a law that would allow media companies to use tactics that might be deemed illegal today under common law, state statutes, or the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. He suggests "flooding", "spoofing", "redirections"! Amazing!!!

MIT Project Oxygen: Visual Interaction, more cool stuff by MIT. People and machines, groovy man!!!

Mysteries Of The CDRW And Backups Revealed "Tom's Hardware has a story that details information regarding some of the new (and old) copy protection schemes out there, as well as results from several different CDRW drives. There are a lot of sites devoted to this topic, but Tom's is usually rather thorough."

Robot On The Run, Scientists running a pioneering experiment with "living robots" which think for themselves said they were amazed to find one escaping from the centre where it "lives"!!!

Holographic Storage Overview At CNET CNET has an article about how holography is being used to create next generation storage devices. The researchers promise they'll beat out DVD by an order of magnitude." Actually, it's an overview with four separate articles -- no bets on when the technology covered will really be available though. Haven't heard about this stuff since the early '90s maybe we have gotten somewhere!!!

New York Times Plugs OpenOffice Suite, for thoes that don't know, this is a completely interoperable, reads and writes all office files types, free for use, and free of microsoft. Win., Linux, and Solars suppported. MacOS X on the way. Oh yeah and its open source too!!! For now Mac users can try ThinkFree it costs a $50 thats $250 less than M$ Office and it to is completely compatable. Or use AppleWorks also compatable and only $80. This ones for you mike!!!

Space Rock's Close Approach Astronomers have revealed that on 14 June, an asteroid the size of a football pitch made one of the closest ever recorded approaches to the Earth. It is only the sixth time an asteroid has been seen to penetrate the Moon's orbit, and this is by far the biggest rock to do so. What has worried some astronomers, though, is that the space object was only detected on 17 June, several days after its flyby!!!

Rates Set For Royalties On Internet The government on Thursday decided that songs delivered online by Internet music broadcasters will be charged royalty fees at a rate that amounts to 70 cents per song for every 1,000 listeners, the Copyright Office announced on its Web site. John Jeffrey, vice president of Live365 Inc., the largest Internet radio network, said "[W]e think that this is a rate that still means the majority of independent webcasters will cease to operate." Call you people and fix this before it getts out of hand, broadcasters do not pay this same royalty only the new tech kids do. Thanks dad for the heads up!!!

New 'T-ray' Space Camera Also Sees Through Clothes, Walls, i always wanted x-ray vision!!!

Peer-to-Peer Cell Phones? A few years a go while driving through Rancho Santa Fe with a car load of cell phone packing friends no one could get a signal. So we came up with this idea, unfortunately i hadn't taken a patent class yet and none of us were engineers but nice to see it get done just the same!!!

Royalties Proposed For Booming Used Market As New-CD Sales Stagnate, its amazing it never occured to them that either 1) there product is not as good as it used to be, or 2) they charge more than the free market is wil;ling to bear. Instead lets just bastardize the law to get back at our customers for no longer lining our pockets. First lets remove the parts of copyright we don't like, such as fair use, and make stronger thoes we do, like the period to exist in perpetuity. Oh yeah and now that these pesky kids have begun to start a parallel economy of used cds lets tax thoes too, forget about the first sale doctrine. Lets just license the cd to the first purchaser, or should i say licensee!!!

Lawsuit Challenges Copy-protected CDs, i have been advocating this for months. Thanks Mike for the heads up!!!

Scientists Grow Human Thymus From Stem Cells, and its about time. i need some spare parts. Human trials could begin within two years!!!

The Boy and his Breeder Reactor Boy Scout who went a little too far in trying to achieve a merit badge in Atomic Energy!!!

Another One Goes Down, Today AudioGalaxy reached an out-of-court settlement with the RIAA. To sum up the settlement, AudioGalaxy will pay the RIAA a lot of money and from now only provide songs for which the copyright holder has specifically given permission.

AlltheWeb, is trying to take on Google for dominance. First the was the OS war, then the Browser wars, now the search war is on. Other contenders include, Teoma.com and WiseNut!!!

File Sharing: Innocent Until Proven Guilty, An economist says music piracy should be hurting the recording industry, but it isn't -- and he doesn't know why.

The Big 5 Are Slow, But Trying To Catch Up This summer, Universal plan to sell tens of thousands of high-quality digital singles for 99 cents or less and albums for $9.99 through online retailers such as Amazon, Best Buy and Sam Goody. Sony will start a similar service priced at $1.49 a song. The new services suggest that Universal and Sony no longer will handicap their online music business for fear of eating into CD sales, which have been the industry's lifeblood. Neither service will have secure file formats. The revolution will be burned!!!

Can Superconductors Block Gravitational Fields? Gravitational shielding anyone? Just put some magnets in your shoes and were off to Pluto!!! : )

Lawrence Livermore Lab On The Chopping Block?, welcome to the future of the motherland. When i was little i went to the lab on several occasions and saw really cool tech that impacted me greatly. i saw my first holograms there!!! Thanks GW. : (

bowieart is David Bowie's art gallery for his own work and that of art students. Quite cool!!!

David Bowie, 21st-Century Entrepreneur, "The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years, and authorship and intellectual property is in for such a bashing." Thank you!!! Mr. Ziggy Stardust speaks his mind a very important read!!!

SDSU Students Create Sporty Hybrid Vehicle, students working in conjunction with real life designers create an electric hybrid vehicle that actually...well.. looks cool, maybe hybrids will catch on!!!

Dee Dee Ramone Found Dead In Los Angeles Dee Dee Ramone, a founding member of punk pioneers the Ramones, died Wednesday night in his Hollywood home, according to a spokesperson for the Los Angeles County Coroner's office. The bassist was 50. I saw the Ramones and Dee Dee play just before he left the band, it was my first punk show. He will be missed...

VeriSign Hit With Marketing Lawsuit On CNET.com And Reuters, WOW i guess we hit the big time.And since i didn't post it before, here's one naming D! CCAN is doing alright!!!

MacOPINION : Matthew Ruben Writes Celine Dion Killed My iMac! This is truely the most insightful and educational article i have read on the net in quite some time. Ruben breakes down all the components of the "color book" standards that maybe effected by Sony and how ultimately they may not even be the key to Sony's liability. i may disagree with his findings but as he puts it, it is difficult to determine weather or not these disks conform because the standards are not public. They are owned by Sony (along with Philips) and odds are they are not going to show them to non-paying licencies any time soon. In any case this is a very cogent article that articulately discusses not only the technology involved but the law as well. Very, very much worth the read for anyone who loves music and feels the RIAA/MPAA/Big 5 have started to cross the line. Next they'll be telling you what you can think about their products!!!

Flash Critic To Coach Macromedia, my problem with flash is most people misuse it. Its like lets make everything bounce and spin and well flash just because we can! Nevermind it is more taxing on the browser/OS and that most often the metaphores used by designers are ridiculous. Anyway enough soapbox, looks like Macromedia is getting help!!!