The Madonna Remix Project, is the home for the "What the fuck do you think you're doing," sample and remixes. Thx Tree!!!

Kill Rock Stars lets you "type in a band and it tells you all of the bands they were in or guested with...." Thx Tree!!!

Back with a new addition. See the right side. More regulars on the way.

Coachella, the festival of festivals is back on April 26 and 27!!! Here is the line up:

Saturday:  Beastie Boys, Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals, Queens of the Stone Age, Groove Armada (live), Blue Man Group, The Donnas, N*E*R*D, Ladytron, Felix Da Housecat, Masters At Work (Little Louie Vega and Kenny "dope" Gonzales), Kinky, Roger Sanchez, Darren Emerson, Talib Kweli, Peanut Butter Wolf/Jaylib (Jaydee & Madlib)/Wildchild, Badly Drawn Boy, The Libertines, Gomez, The Music, Hot Hot Heat, Idlewild, Amon Tobin, Ben Kweller, Joseph Arthur, Particle, Christopher Lawrence, Division Of Laura Lee, South, Stereo Total, The Mooney Suzuki, Nightmares On Wax, Herman Cantanneo, D:Fuse, Spymob.

Sunday:     Red Hot Chili Peppers, The White Stripes, Underworld, Jack Johnson, Primal Scream, Blue Man Group, Sonic Youth, Thievery Corporation, Café Tacuba, Fischerspooner, Dirty Vegas, Deep Dish, Richie Hawtin, Timo Mass, The Mars Volta, Johnny Marr and The Healers, G. Love and Special Sauce, Rooney, Ben Folds, Tortoise, The Soundtrack of Our Lives, The Polyphonic Spree, Mouse on Mars, El~P/Aesop Rock/RJD2/Mr. Lif/Murs, Black Eyed Peas, The Von Bondies, Whirlwind Heat, The Kinison, DJ Irene, 22-20's, DB, Eisley.

looks like it's going to be another great year. tix on sale sat. feb 22. thats this one. anyone interested?!?!?!

Should You Fear Google?, "Google-watch.com is presenting a list of nine complaints about (almost) everybody's favorite search engine. Some of the salient fears are "Google has no data retention policies. There is evidence that they are able to easily access all the user information they collect and save." and "Matt Cutts, a key Google engineer, used to work for the National Security Agency." The concerns seem like paranoid hand waving to me, but maybe I'm not paranoid enough." i am a big fan, but this is food for thought!!!

Streaming Patent Claims Go to Court, "Acacia Media Technologies, a company owning broad patents that could affect virtually all companies streaming audio or video online, is going to court for the first time to test its claims." i haven't read the patent, yet, and i will, but things are getting a little out of hand!!!

The Shape of Things to Come, Jonathan Ive "Given the buzz attached to his name in the hallowed halls of Apple, Jonathan Ive might be expected to be something of an egomaniac. In fact, this shaved-headed, soft-spoken Brit is anything but. The only time you'll hear him use the word "I" is when he's naming some of the products he helped make famous: iMac, iBook, iPod."

Goodbye, Dolly "Dolly, the famous cloned sheep has been put to death after being diagnosed with a progressive lung disease, according to many reports. This follows on earlier reports that she was prematurely aging, including developing arthritis. While one should be cautious about drawing conclusions from a single data point, its interesting to speculate." Bummer!!!

Japanese Man Arrested For Virtual Theft "The Daily Yomiuri is reporting that a 21-year-old man was arrested for "illegally accessing an Internet game server to sell a virtual 'house' owned by a woman to another game participant for 50,000 yen, police said Thursday. According to the MPD, Ryusei Sakano of Itabashi Ward, Tokyo, posed as a female game player he met online while playing 'Ultima Online,' a popular Internet-based game. Sakano reportedly asked the game's system administrator to provide the female player's entry password on the pretext that she had lost her password to the game." Not sure how this one works yet but very interesting, not unlike other virtual crimes of the past, however i think this is the first designed to make actual money in th enon virtual sense : ) !!!

U.S. Backs Merging Net, Phone Numbers "In a recent internal letter, the Commerce Department recommended that the United States participate in an emerging electronic numbering system, known as ENUM, that will allow people to use one identifier for many different purposes, including mobile phones, e-mail, instant messaging and faxes. ENUM is designed to accelerate the convergence of the telephone network and the Internet and is expected to offer a huge boost to online telephony services." Cool this also likely means numbers need to be portable and i can leave my damn cell provider!!!

Opera Says 'Bork' To MSN "Opera Software has released a new version of its Opera 7 Web browser with just one tweak--it turns Microsoft's MSN Web site into gibberish that was inspired by the Swedish Chef from "The Muppet Show." Good for Opera ideology, bad for Opera biz!!!

Democracy In The Dark? "Melissa Bar has written an insightful article on how Westlaw and Lexis Nexis restrict public access to case law databases. She writes, '[T]he courts and the court's words belong to us. In more ways than one, the American people have already paid for the case law produced by our courts. Commercial vendors must not be allowed to highjack our law or dictate who may have access to it. By refusing to allow public libraries to purchase electronic subscriptions that can serve their patrons, Westlaw and LexisNexis are closing the door on information.' Individually purchasing the documents over credit card is incredibly expensive, making it virtually inaccessible to most library patrons." This is something i only learned about after starting law school. I find it very distrubing!!!

This post is some sad news i forward from Paul. "It is with a heavy heart that I announce the following:  tomorrow is the last installment of Therapy Radio.  Groovetech Seattle is closing its doors, so no more show. 

DJ MB and I will be doing our farewell set tomorrow from 3-6 PST.  You can tune in at Groove Tech.  Click on broadcasts.  Click on either audio or audio & video under 'Seattle'.  You gots to have Real Audio."

Open Content Music Database Launched, an alternativ to CDDB that now includes "audio fingerprints" when cd id is unavailable!!! Wonder how long it will take to implement this as a DRM system?!!!

Infineon Chip To Read Brain-Cell Signals, "Researchers at Infineon Technologies in Germany have developed new semiconductor technology that will allow scientists to read electrical signals in living nerve cells, the company said Tuesday." 'Bout time!!!

RSSify At VoidStar.com This form takes your web page and turns it into RSS 0.92. This is especially useful for Blogger users. RSS allows you to syndicate your headlines!!!

Annotate Space...is a project to develop experiential forms of journalism and nonfiction storytelling for use at specific locations.

Websites Complaining About Screen-Scraping "There have been two cases recently where websites have requested the removal of modules from CPAN. These modules could be used to access the websites (EuroTV and Streetmap) from a PERL program. The question being asked on the mailinglists (threads about EuroTV and about Streetmap) is 'can companies dictate what software you can use to access web content from their server?" A very interesting question? Unfortunately the answer is probably that they can by contract : ( We'll have to see how this one turns out!!!

Instant Live CDs Of A Concert? "Experiments are rife in the music business these days -- and Boston will be a test market for one of the most novel of them. Clear Channel Concerts, the nation's largest concert promoter, has ambitious plans to record live CDs of its shows and sell them to patrons within five minutes after those shows end. Clear Channel is targeting Boston as the first site for the new plan, according to sources within the organization." This is the first smart thing they have done to turn the industry around. Lets see how long they stick with it!!!

Now getting ready to fly home. Coffee breakfast borito and robots. Much love to all adventure partners and hostesses!!! More play soon in a city near you!!!

Say jenn tri and william. Went to steps of rome and city lights. Jenn found of a robot book. Also went to kid robot! Bomb! Went to monico. Had wine cheese futures and massages. Then great indian in the office. A full royal spread, queen tan and king curry. Them nickies bbq. WOW!!!

Saw nat and damon's place. Saw dance dance revolution home floor. Went to robot speak. Saw live. Tried sparks = red bull + beer. Went to hait, ameba. Had great food i castro and soba and spring rolls at noodle house. Got tunes played in mission.

Book rec and vid shopping in berk. Got a history of studio 54. Rolled to see chris at work. She runs her own lab at the med school. And has an office full'o'toys. Went and met nat at her gig. She rocked. Learned world was small when nat took us to her friends art gallery opening. Chris ended up knowing them. Net many new kids. Saw old friends. Had old brandy. Fell asleep sitting up.

In sf. Flew jet blue. No other way to go. Blue corn chips and direct tv. Breakfast at anns. Dope as ever!!!

Talkin' Smack, Michael Dell, when asked, said that the best thing Jobs, upon his return to Apple, could do would be to dissolve the company and return the money to the shareholders. Since that time, Dell Computer Corp. has started selling the iPod and nixed floppies. Hmmm interesting!!!

Wikipedia, is a multilingual project to create a complete and accurate open content encyclopedia. We started on January 15, 2001 and are already working on 103531 articles in the English version. Visit the help page and experiment in the sandbox to learn how you can edit any article right now. Learn something new every day!!!

Just saw Roger Corman speak!!! WOW!!!

IBM, Screensaver To Tackle Smallpox, "IBM and a host of technology partners are working on software for the U.S. Defense Department that will let the idle time of anyone's computer be devoted to investigate antismallpox drugs, the companies are expected to announce Wednesday." This is part of their Grid plan, which is really quite cool. I had an idea, i thought it would be cool, to sell cycles as a consumer. Like every machine sold has an app that uses an open format and subscribes to servers publishing lists of project to be accomplished. Some may be donation only, others might be for profit, this way consumers could sell (and thus recoup on their investment in their new shiny box) their cycles. In addition companies might subsidize machines to consumers who could not otherwise afford them in exchange for cycles each night. This system would allow more people to buy machines, and work on project they truely find important. If you have a pc you leave on check the story above and see if you can help out on the small pox thing!!! btw i have a patent pending on the idea mentioned above, so don't get any funny ideas!!! ; - )

Saw great tunes. Man Planet! If i had a label i would sign them! Amazing like Devo meets The Rentals. Then the Groovy Goulies like channeling the best of the Ramones and Bill Haley. Also incredible! Then Rap at Mon Social. Next Three and Ione Sky at a KCRW benefit. Missed djs but saw old friends! Attending Lily Taylor and Annabella Sciora.

Weekend chilled. Still not 100%. But did in to CA2 wrap party. Strange and i quote "bowling between Demi Moore and Sugar Ray". In any case it was real nice to see so many very drunk friends!!!

Drug Policy Alliance Action Center, has made us aware of the new Rave act (thx Jenn)!!! And more info can be found at National Review Online (thx D) and Electronic Music Defense and Education Fund.

Also watch here for my soon to come legal analsys of the Rave Act, the Justice Enhancement and Domestic Security Act of 2003, and McClure v. Ashcroft!!!

Light Particles Are Duplicated More Than A Mile Away Along Fiber (reg. req.), Employing a facet of quantum mechanics that Albert Einstein called "spooky action at a distance," scientists have taken particles of light, destroyed them and then resurrected copies more than a mile away. Transporter here we come!!!

Suppliers Dim Xbox Sales Picture Sales of Microsoft's Xbox video game console are likely to scrape the low end of current company forecasts, based on recent reports involving key component suppliers. i've been predicting they were in trouble for a while. Looks like the numbers say its true, wonder if there will be an XBox in 2 years!!!

Hollywood Says No To Filtering DVD Player "There is a posting over at ZDNet about how Hollywood continues to trample on the American consumer's free use rights. They want to prevent the sale of a special DVD player which can be used to edit out offensive material from a DVD in realtime. While I don't agree with censorship in general, I do believe its everyone's right to do what they wish with their own media."

Proposed New Spam Law"Several weeks ago, Larry Lessig proposed anti-spam legislation he'd like to see Congress pass -- legislation which he was willing to bet his job on. A congressional aide appears to be drafting legislation based on Larry's suggestions and is asking the Politech list for suggestions."

Telemarketers Sue to Stop Do-Not-Call List, Telemarketers went to court on Wednesday in an attempt to stop the U.S. government from setting up a proposed "do not call" list that would help consumers block unwanted sales calls. It seems that they forgot comercial speech, can be limited by congress. Moreover it seems that since individuals place themselves on the don't call lists, that telemarketers' comercial speech should recieve no protection because it is the individuals act not a state action that tells them not to call. i my self a huge advocat of free speech however i get and this is a real figure about 90% telemarketing calls at home. Something has to be done!!!

SmartDust Sensorwebs 'Real Soon Now' "EE Times has a piece on progress with the four-year-old DARPA-conceived Smart Dust self-organizing sensor networks. Based on Berkeley's TinyOS and TinyDB open-source projects, the article reports several companies are demonstrating both military and civilian applications. Ars Technica adds background and commentary on issues not discussed in the EET article." Welcome to the future!!!

P2P Content Delivery For Open Source, "The Open Content Network is a collaborative effort to help deliver open source, public domain, and Creative Commons-licensed content using peer-to-peer technology. The network is essentially a huge 'virtual web server' that links together thousands of computers for the purpose of helping out over-burdened/slashdotted web sites. Any existing mirror or web site can easily join the OCN by tweaking the HTML on their site." Lessigs minions are building weapons!!!

Griffin Technology iTrip, no not that kind. For all the kiddies out there with thoes cool little ipods i want so much, say bye,bye wires, this time with style!!!

Casperelectronics, got the goods on speak and spell and speak and math! cool sounds. reminds me of the atari 2600 generator. thanks paul!!!

still sick!!!

saw anna paquin on way out of park city. wow!!!

back now but very sick. have been in bed for 3 days, phone off. hope to be up and around soon.

Missed 28 days 1 and a 1/2 times. Waited 3 hours. Bummer. See it latter. Off to in america us premier. Seriously best movie i have seen in years! Cried like a baby now understand the samantha morton buzz. Look for the two kids in the film to do great things! Off to la at 1055. Asr on thursday.

Got into southwestern entertainment llm program. Will likely start in summer.

Selma`s movie the bomb. Laughed cried loved it! Now for danny boyle.

Dustin hoffman on street. Solders girl trans-sexual love story. Brilliant. The share of things adapted play by lebute. I liked it but g and john no love. Stoked the gator story. Wicked brilliant! Just saw fonda and now gona see him in selma direct debute.

Worked on Charlie's again. Did two nights. Saw a car flip over! It was a pretty cool stunt. Hal worked on the set too. Now i am hopefully off to see Eric in Salt Lake. Gona do some boarding and see some films at Sundance with G and HT! I hope anyway. Next week Asr Long Beach is on. Gona be a fun next few weeks.

iGo, the coolest computer desk like thingy i have ever seen. This is reason alone to have an iMac!!!

I, Cringely, compu pundent Crigly on Aplle and M$. Good Article but this quote is the reason i posted it. A wonderful bit about the M$ case i had never heard before. Funny now it seems so obvious... "Apple feels it needs Microsoft, Microsoft demands a pound of flesh, and Apple gives in.? Most recently this happened with web browsers as Microsoft periodically threatened to drop Internet Explorer for the Mac.? And they probably should have dropped it, too, since the Macintosh product was the fatal flaw in their "IE is just a part of Windows" legal strategy of a couple years ago.? I took great pleasure at that time in asking Steve Ballmer what part of Windows was Internet Explorer for Macintosh?" Love that!!!

Bar Monkey!, simply put, is a vending machine that serves mixed drinks. Just go see the damn thing!!!

DMCA Defendant To Stop Making Chip, A federal judge has agreed to Static Control Components' offer to temporarily cease manufacturing a toner cartridge chip that drew a lawsuit under a controversial copyright law. Maybe my memory is failing me but wasn't a giant exemption in the DMCA designed to protect interoprability!!!

What Lawyers Can Learn From Comic Books, Lessig reivews Mr. Mehra's (a University of Chicago-educated lawyer) latest article in Rutgers Law Review which looks at the question of copyright from the perspective of business. "For it seems clear, as Mr. Mehra demonstrates, that this copycat market fuels for original manga art demand that otherwise would not exist. The "use" of this copyrighted content therefore benefits the original author." I have always thought the same of music. I have many friends who are professional DJ's and music producers, almost all when they hear a sample they like go hunt down the original to own!!!

What's Everyone Crying About, i just read all the current stories from all the big Mac web site. You know the ones. Anyway there is something i just can't get my head around. People are complaining Apple upgaded there hardware and software. Wait i evan have trouble typing that. APPLE UPGRADED!!! People who are Mac consumers, lovers, advocates, evangalists, are up in arms! What is really going on?

No one complains when M$ upgrades, not like they ever do...or when Dell brings out a new machine. So why Apple. Last i check people were stoked with the release of PS2. But what about my PS1! Damn i thought it was the latest greatest. : (

Anyway, seems strange to me. People should enjoy inovation. If you don't want to by the next product don't. End of story. Why should they keep stuff in the labs thats ready to go?

Another thing is puzzeling to me as well. Maybe this is not quite as timely but here goes anyway....These same people are crying over the cost of .Mac, MacOSX updates, potential upgrade costs of iLife products. When did anyone every give you the idea that you were always entitled to free software? Why is it yours? Did it cost nothing for Apple to develop and as a result you are some how entitled. BTW it cost shit loads to develop.

As for me i'll take the new tech as soon as its ready and most i'll take before that.

As for the lot of ya i refer to above, fuck off ya punters!!!

Mac World Updates

Big big show, using mpeg4 to stream!

Switcher (Ellen gets big ups), 68% of visitors to switchers site are on windows.

51 stores opened in 21 months. 85 million people live within 15 miles of one. Grove LA is most popular, making very good money. Stores on target, 50% sold to windows switchers.

ical, isynch = getting better and important.

.mac got 250,000 subscribers.

ipod out for only 14 months, sold 600,000 units, or 1 every minute, in japan it has a 42% market share, #1 in us as well. Burton also making ipod compatable jacket with controler on arm.

macosx gets 5 million active users, picking on quark for not updating. pro tools will be updated this month!

final cut pro is #1. final cut express, a light version of pro, looks and works the same minus a few features. reads imovie and final cut pro files. software real time effects, no render time. cost $299.

NO LONGER CAN BOOT 9, classic only!

all iapps will be integrated, iphoto2 released, can get stuff from itunes, can archive to cd and dvd, one button enhance (fixes, white ballence, contrast, etc...) and touch up brush.

imovie3, now does chapters recognized by idvd, precise audio editing, added george lucas sound effects library, still photo effects (pick start point, finish point and duration). when making dvd takes chapter point and automatically builds scene selection list on dvd.

idvd3 new themes, integration to other iapps. steve likes the cure, but likes moby more. $3 a disk.

suite now called iLife available Jan 25, all three already free itunes+imovie+iphoto or whole with idvd for $49

Safari BROWSER!!! i-Bench Safari killed everything!!! 3xs faster than ie on html, 2xs on javascript, load 40% faster. google integration. one bounce! new snapback feature very cool. open source render khtml, and have added back all improvements. available in beta today.

keynote, presentation app, built for steve. keynote was used to build every apple keynote in 2002. all built against quartz. supports every file type known to man! has themes, very idvd like. compatability, imports and exports POWERPOINT, PDF, and quicktime. ITS also got an open XML file format! cost $99. free to all at keynote.

oh my god here comes the titanium! oops not titanium any more, aircraft grade alluminum. 17 inch power book, widescreen, took it right off the imac only changed back light, it is actually thinner than the current titanium!!! keyboard GLOWS but only when ambient light drops!!! firewire 800 can use adapter to go 400+ firewire 400 + gigabit ethernet + DVI + USB both sides + line in + headpphones + s-video + bluetooth + airport extreeme 54mb 802.11g card built in (two antennas built in and moved to screen, and equal to ibook reception) cost $3299. bridging built into base station, usb printing on base station, 50 users supported, cost $199.

one more thing! 12 inch powerbook! smaller than ibook! G4 + slot load combo drive + bluetooth, same battery life as ibook, cost $1,799. build to order with a superdrive for $1999. sorkin likes big screen for two scripts at once, bt big screen for more than one app at a time, but loves illuminated keyboard for gigs.

ending with one of the funniest ads in computing history!!! and what a wonderful world by the ramones!!!

quote of the day "why not a cube?"

Norway Teen Cleared in DVD Case, The court said Jon Johansen, had not broken the law when he helped unlock a code and distribute a computer program enabling unauthorized copying of DVD movies (DeCSS).

It should be noted that the story above along with almost all others ignores the fact that DeCSS is not required to copy DVD movies. An exact copy can be made without the use of DeCSS. DeCSS only real use was to make DVD content viewable on non-licenced DVD players, a major concern of the Linux community. At the time of its creation there were no DVD players licenced for use under Linux. The reason for this was most likely the small market for creating player coupled with the high cost of licencing the DVD decryption algorithms.

Edge, looking for answers or at least opinions on our greatest questions. Everyone from Ray Kurtzweil and Alan Alda, to Jaron Lanier and Marvin Minski. Oh and my personal favorite Douglas Rushkoff!!!

Organic Data Memory Using The DNA Approach, over the hollidays, my friend Paul and i discussed the value and problems associated with the use of PDAs. This lead to a discussion of how one might build such inside the body, well looks like the hard drive is on the way!!!

Laser-Scanning U.S. Landmarks, The National Park Service is creating detailed 3-D maps of national monuments such as the Statue of Liberty and Mount Rushmore using high-resolution laser scanners. Their goal is to create highly-accurate blueprints that can be used to reconstruct the monuments if they are damaged by a terrorist attack or other means. Funny i remember just a few months ago people freeking out over tourists photographing or video taping such monuments thinking they must have been terrorists, in tourists clothing!!!

A Viable System for Micropayments, Nielson makes the case that subscriptions fence you in because you either pay nothing and get nothing or pay a large fee. Wonder why no one ever just tallied the micro payments up and billed you later after a period of time like say, uh, the phone company. Amazing!!!

Xbox Private Key Distributed Computing Project, The Neo Project has added "The Xbox Public Key Challenge" to it's distributed computing client. The aim is to compute the 2048 bit private key that Microsoft uses to sign Xbox media. If it is a success, modchips wouldn't be necessary. Not sure what the DMCA would say about this but i wish luck to all who take on the beast that is M$!!!

Star Wars Origami, Why combine Star Wars and paperfolding? Why not?!!!

Supreme Court Backs Off DVD Case, The U.S. Supreme Court has bowed out of a long-running dispute over a DVD descrambling utility, dealing a preliminary defeat to Hollywood studios and electronics makers. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor placed a ruling by the California Supreme Court on hold last week, but rescinded her emergency stay on Friday. Looks like there may be a fair shake (no pun, well yeah, it was intended) after all!!!

STARSHIP EXETER, just go see it! It really should not be explained except to say trekies will love this!!!

Supreme Court Enters DVD-Copying Case , The U.S. Supreme Court has granted Hollywood studios and electronics makers a temporary victory by stepping into a long-running dispute over software that can be used to copy DVDs.

ElcomSoft Verdict: Not Guilty, A jury on Tuesday found a Russian company ElcomSoft and employee Dmitry Sklyarov, who was arrested during Defcon after giving a speech about his company's software which is designed to crack protections on Adobe Systems' eBooks making the ebooks more usable and portable (ie. blind users can have their computers turn thee text to speech), not guilty of criminal copyright charges under th DMCA!!!

Memorex Videoball TV, This is the one! The TV i have been waiting for. No its not lcd, led, or even plasma. Its not even flat! Its old school!!!

Captchas, are puzzles that have the property that computers can generate and grade the tests even though they cannot pass them. The researchers decided to call their puzzles Captchas, an acronym for Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart. NYT (sub req) has a cool article on this research and what it may mean for artificial intelegence and encryption.

Got temp job on set of a movie! Lots of fun. Got temp job at talent management company. Lots of fun, learning tons. Looking for new stuff turn of the year. Applied to go back to school in LA at Southwestern for an LL.M. in entertainment and media law. It's the first program of its kind. Also got sworn in so I can now officially practice.

Added back search....

Back up and running. Basic style.

wow some stuff really got broke. i will be fixing as soon as time allows. : (

Record Labels Sue Web Heavyweights, Now its been a long time but if i remember correctly this type of law suit is exactly what the DMCA is to protect against. Seems that the lables are unhappy that broadband providers do not screen out and block a certain domain that enables people to dowload pirated music. Amazing!!!

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Labels Drop Suit, seems their lawyers read the same DMCA i did. Wonder why the droped the case citing that the offending web site was no longer live. Seems damages would still be available if they really had any hope of recovery in the first place. But alas maybe it just bully tactics, or worse bad lawyering!!!

Music Body Presses Anti-Piracy Case, in what may become a new legal front in its war against online copying, the Recording Industry Association of America has asked a federal court for help in tracing an alleged peer-to-peer pirate!!!

Segway Isn't Really Ginger, in the latest twist to the long-running Ginger saga, it's now being rumored that the two-wheeled device unveiled by inventor Dean Kamen last December isn't in fact the real deal. It cannot be the same thing as the much-hyped mystery invention originally known as Ginger and IT!!!

Don't Link To Us!, links to sites that attempt to impose substantial restrictions on other sites that link to them. The Linking Policy for Don't Link to Us! precludes us from requesting permission to link to a site, and compels us to link directly to the targeted page (i.e., a "deep link") rather than to a site's home page. i like these guys!!!

Ambushed On Donahue, all thoes damn shows! GTA3 revisited!!!

ISP Bans RIAA To Protect Its Customers, and so it goes, the war begins. I guess it was only a matter of time. May the best hackers code win!!!

Roaming Data Stirs Up Controversy, what cell co.s don't want you to know!!!

Intel, PC Makers Sued Over P4 Performance, the megahurtz myth and then some!!!

WiFi: EarthLink Goes Wireless, looks like their on there wayu with Boingo! But price seems not right, nice but no cigar! Hight addoption i think is gona require bundling with standard unlimited service!!!

NASA Plan To Read Brainwaves At Airports, the thought police are hear! Now i wonder since stuff stored in ram is sufficiently fixed to assert copyright is stuff in my grey matter?!?!?!

Does Schmoozing Make Robots Clever?, What? Do you think you are cle'ver!?! (in my best frenchie) AI the debate continues!!!

Judge Hits Rewind On ReplayTV Case, changing her mind and allowing the EFF to join the suit!!!

The New Pepsi/Coke, Hey look its open source drink! Thanks to Joe for sending this in!!!

Seriously hindered access. No IM. Got supper old machine running but very slow. If you need to contact me fon is best. I will be using machine primarilly for job search and research. Verry little com. But will continue to check mail from hand held. Also will try to post here when possible.

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!!!