Maybe everyone knew this already but it occured to me just yesterday. Sorry i'm a little slow.

Anyway i have a new theory about the Green Flash, at least its new to me. You know how everyone is always looking for that elusive green flash just as the sun sets. i think it is an after image on your retna. you don't notice the green because it is mixed with the orange from the sun. but as soon as the sun leaves the field the green becomes most apparent and then slowly fades.

anyway, my new theory!!!

Machinima Invade Hollywood's Turf?, "Thanks to Wired News for posting an article discussing the rise of machinima, which are "animated movies.. utilizing the [real-time] 3-D graphics engines of games like Quake or Unreal." The article cites prominent machinima such as Jake Hughes' Anachronox: The Movie and the machinima-created music video for Zero 7's 'In The Waiting Line', and according to Bill Rehbock of Nvidia, "..machinima methods, in addition to providing a hobby for aspiring filmmakers, are starting to be used in the creative industries far more than is apparent. For example, George Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic is using the Unreal engine to storyboard Star Wars movies." There's also a significant cash prize for machinima makers as part of Epic's Make Something Unreal competition we mentioned a few weeks back."

Distributed Computing Economics, "In a ClusterComputing.org article, Jim Gray, director of Microsoft's Bay Area Research Lab, provides an interesting economic analysis for building distributed systems. When do you choose a grid over a cluster or a supercomputer? When does it pay off to move a task to the data vs moving the data to the task? He takes current hardware and networking costs into account to answer those questions."

i had an idea a few years ago after reading "Peer-to-Peer", why not have a company sell computers at a discounted rate with a future allowance for the use of spare cycles. The company fronts part of the cost of the computer and the consumer pays them back the loan in resources. You could also say "donate" resources as many do today to organizations like seti@home, or even sell them to corporations who could use them. There could be an interface between the distributed client and server which tracked the available jobs. The user then could select which jobs it wanted to work on and the server would get the work units and credit the users account for futre payment.

Just an idea!!!

Apple gets Exclusive Distribution of Soundtrack, "MacCentral reports that Apple has obtained exclusive distribution rights to the soundtrack for "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen". The album is on sale for $9.99 through Apple's iTunes Music Store -- and will not be available in traditional music stores and no physical CDs are being made for the U.S. market."

Well i guess the music world is changing!!! ;)

Hi-Tech Babble Baffles Many, AMD just did a study of what high tech terms consumers understood. According to this write up "the word megahertz...mystified many". Looks like trouble since new 64 bit chips are in the pipe and multi-prossesors with multiple cores are becoming more common. Whats a marketer to do!!!

9th Circuit Court Finds 'Thumbnailing' Fair Use, "A photographer named Leslie Kelly had sued Arriba Soft Corporation for infringing his copyrights to photos when they made thumbnails of his pictures and stored them in a public image search engine. Today the federal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the district court's ruling that making these thumbnail copies of images for the search engine was 'fair use.' Since the applicability of fair-use defenses to copyright infringement touches on all kinds of common uses of the Internet as well as rulemaking related to the scope of the DMCA, this decision will probably have an effect on the discussion. (Note that this case was decided by a 3-judge panel and thus isn't binding precedent.)" Note that the court also reversed in part the lower court's ruling, specifically saying that the lower court should not have ruled on "whether the display of the larger image is a violation of Kelly's exclusive right to publically display his works."

This is a nice holding but the DMCA is a terribly written law. The '76 Act covers almost everything necessary for copyright protection without the need for a new and confusing addendum. Learn the DMCA well so you can toss it out!!!

Piracy and peer-to-peer, which would better read "Privacy and P2P" is a somewhat coherent if slightly inacurate look at the current state of affairs in the high technology copyright battle. The article is defintely worth a read howerver as the latter half is a debate between Ian Clarke, Freenet creator and Matt Oppenheim, RIAA's senior vice president of business and legal affairs. Their perspectives are very interesting. And if you have an interest in keeping any part of the world free you might want to take a read!!!

The Semi-Blog "Greetings Earthlings", While he's living aboard the International Space Station, Expedition Seven NASA ISS Science Officer Ed Lu is writing about his experiences. You can also ask Ed or Commander Yuri Malenchenko a question. Pretty cool!!!

oh yeah another little personal bit, my t250 has been retired. :) by and thanks for all the hard work my little (ok not so little) blue friend.

in comming a bright shiny new nokia with an xhtml and wap 2.0 browser :)

i love toys!!!

Big ups to all the kids on the adventures this weekend. Much fun and love to all, cars, boats, kegs, boards, friends, speakers!!! Oh my!!!

Nobel Prize Winners on Sci-Fi Flicks, In case you missed it, Harold Varmus, Nobel prize winning retrovirologist and cancer biologist, former NIH director, and current head of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, has written a review of 28 Days Later in this weekend's New York Times. One would think that his time is more valuably spent running important medical institutions, searching for new cancer insights/cures, etc, but the dude's also an English lit major and has a penchant for sci-fi. 28 Days Later is the new flick from director Danny Boyle (Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, etc.) about a virus termed rage that is advertently released from a Cambridge primate research facility and goes on to devastate much of merry old England more rapidly than the dragons did in Reign of Fire. Although Varmus appears to go out of his way to be even handed, it's clear that he has a problem suspending disbelief on a topic (virology) that is near and dear to him. Reviews from professional movie critics on 28 Days Later have been mixed, but Ebert and another NY Times reviewer were into it. Good, clean summer fun - aside from 'the scenes of maiming, dismemberment, clubbing, shooting, bayoneting and shoplifting'."

Btw run! Do not walk, to see 28 Days Later. I had been trying to see it since the first week in Jan!!! It was worth every minute of the wait.

Also a big up to Brian who knew on spec it was gona be a classic and i thought people wouldn't get it. Looks like you were right my man.

Only one bit of caution. Do NOT watch it alone, and do watch it durring the day. :) Enjoy!!!

Court Says Gator-style Ads Are Legal, "A federal court has ruled that pop-up ads for rivals of U-Haul International, placed atop the moving company's own site by a third-party software application, are legal."

"The summary decision", came out last week. Not sure what type it was or the rational. Full decision will be available next week.

Hopefully more analysis then. As for now note this is not a decision about "drive by downloads" but is probably really an issue of "palming off".

I can't really see how any court would not think this was palming off or some other form of unfair competition but only time will tell!!!

Filesharing Up 10% After RIAA Threatens Users, "Technews says filesharing has gone up 10% on some sites such as Grokster since the Recording Industry Association of America's announcement on June 25 that it will start tracking down and suing users of file-sharing programs. Wayne Rosso, president of Grokster, commented 'even genocidal litigation can't stop file sharers'."

Maybe its uh time for a new plan?!?

Science Faction, "Imagine a gun that uses fingerprint scanning to prevent you firing a shot, brain implants that let you tap into people's memories and a newspaper that updates itself when a big story breaks. It's not science fiction, it's science fact, as technologists catch up with - and surpass - the benchmarks set by sci-fi writers and filmmakers."

Welcome to your present!!!

Anti-Patriot Act Movement Expands, "Mount Shasta, California has become the latest city where the USA PATRIOT act is creating a controversy. This story at the Record-Searchlight describes petitioning by a local citizens' rights committee to order police to defy the PATRIOT act. To date, 3 states and 130 cities have passed legislation forbidding local authorities from cooperating with federal PATRIOT requests, not to mention the numerous businesses who are taking pains to hamper the Act's coverage."

Let the revolution begin!!!

GPL May Not Work In German Legal System, "It may be that the (L)GPL can not be (fully) enforced under German jurisdiction. This is at least the conclusion professor Gerald Spindler of the jurisprudential faculty of the University of Goettingen came to when he examines the Legal questions of the open source software (It's long, it's complex and it's in German and it's written by a professor, so don't expect to understand anything, if you are not a German lawyer). Heise News has the article in German, however, the fish may be with you. IANAL, however, as one can put some of the legal problems aside, most of the concerns mentioned in there should provoke at least some thought by brave men around RMS."

Solar Sailing and Physics, the New Scientist writes that the next generation of spacecraft might be propelled with the help of the sun. "Both NASA and the European Space Agency are developing solar sails and, although never tested, the concept is quite simple. A solar sail is essentially a giant mirror that reflects photons of sunlight back in the direction they came from." But Thomas Gold from Cornell University in New York says the proponents of solar sailing have forgotten about thermodynamics, the branch of physics governing heat transfer." And this is where it's becoming interesting. Gold's paper, "The solar sail and the mirror," states that "either Carnot's accepted rule is in error, or the solar sail proposal will not work at all." So, as this illustration from New Scientist shows, the real question is: "Can it really sail away?" We'll know it in September when the first tests are done.

Digital Shoplifting From Bookstores?, "According to a report from Tokyo via IOL, Japanese publishers have launched a campaign to stop 'digital shoplifters.' These 'digital shoplifters' are using cellphones to photograph magazine pages in bookstores, rather than buying them. 'Digital shoplifting is becoming a big problem as camera-equipped mobile handsets are spreading fast and their quality is improving greatly,' said Kenji Takahashi, an official at the Japan Magazine Publishers Association. Will entry into a bookstore soon include a 'cell-phone patdown?'"

What about mp3 players, that have reording functions, or cell phones that do video too? Will all stores and events take away all our gear?!?

Anonymous P2P No Defense, "Operators of peer-to-peer networks cannot escape copyright infringement claims by giving their members the ability to mask the content that changes hands on their networks, a federal appeals court ruled Monday."

Watch this case closely i believe some very seriously bad law is about to be made!!! :(

World Front Pages, see whats going on around the world!!!

EMI and Sony Lose Lawsuit Over Crippled Music Disks, "A brazilian consumer has sued EMI and Sony, and won! The reason was a copy protection technology in the best seller album "Tribalistas" that didn't play in his car. You can read about it in Folha de São Paulo (babelfish translation here), brazilian biggest newspaper. They must be very afraid, since EMI vice-president defended the company himself in a lawsuit involving less than US$ 350,00. A more detailed report is in my music site Agenda do Samba & Choro (babelfish here), where we release some of the lawsuit files to make it easier for others to sue them. Since last year, we are calling for a boycott (babelfish) of copy protected albums. The companies appealed, and said that they will take the case to the Supreme Court, because it is a 'question of principles'. The consumer is sueing them again, because all new EMI albums in Brazil are being released with copy protection and won't work in his car."

About time! And if you bring that shit here, aqnd it fuckes me up i'll sue your ass too!!! ;)

oh and hatch fuck you too!!!

How Labels And Artists Divvy Up Your Dollar Online, "Business 2.0 has an article that breaks down where that $1 goes when you buy a song from iTunes or other online music services. Key figures: the site takes .40, the labels take .30 and the artists get a measly 12 cents for each download."

Your Brain May Have Amazing Powers, "I've never given much credence to the "only use 10% of our brains" urban legend, but this article, Savant for a Day, is making me reconsider. I'd like to see controlled, double-blind studies, but Snyder's machine already sounds very interesting -- hey, anyone can learn to draw, but I want to flip a switch to put my brain into calculator mode. EM-brain experimentation has taken off since Michael Persinger's work and other recent research."

two thoughts about the recent apple announcements...

the first is inspired by this thread at macslash. what would be required to take an isight and attach it to an ipod? this seems like a very powerful and fun combo. isight requires only one connect, and the ipod has it. it could then be quite a powerful portable video/still camera, capable of storing huge amounts of footage and stills. granted it would not have all the capabilities of other more sophisticated cameras (display screen, zoom, higher resolution, etc...) but for $150 to get hours upon hours of 640x480 video that fits in your pocket, i bet every single ipod owner would buy one no questions asked! now i am not sure what technical hurdles there would be but i am pretty sure there are few and they are easily overcome.

next there has been a lot of talk of the design of thermal zones into the new g5 boxes. here is my question, if heat rises why not put the cpu it on top? now this assumes that the cpu is the greatest source of heat and if i am wrong then thats just one more reason i am not an engineer. but it seems to me that that could wipe out a great deal of heat dissipation problems very quickly.

anyway just some thoughts...

Make Max Your Puppet, Put words into Max Headroom's mouth with this nifty Flash soundboard. Thx for the toy Tree!!!

Niue Gets Island-Wide WiFi, "Business Wire is running a story about the polynesian island of Niue. Niue has just completed an island-wide wifi network, making it the first country with nationwide free wifi access. This comes after countrywide email was started in 1997, dialup access in 1999, and broadband this Spring, all free for anyone." Looks like someone is getting it right!!!

Netflix Granted Patent on DVD Subscription Rentals, "A few folks noted a new patent showing up from netflix. They apparently now have a patent on their model of subscribing to rentals- where instead of being charged per disc, you are charged a monthly fee and can keep the rentals indefinitely without late fees. You can patent anything! Get on the bus!"

This is getting ridiculous! Why not just give away a licence to be litigious about rights you were granted questionably?!? BTW i think i am gona pattent a method for talking shit. Think there is prior art? Patent office probably wouldn't care, i am sure they would find my methods novel and unique!!!

Um yeah. Thoes apple guys ... wow ... glad i have friends in Cupertino.

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Hatch Takes Aim at Illegal Downloading, The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Tuesday he favors developing new technology to remotely destroy the computers of people who illegally download music from the Internet. Fear this man! And consider whether or not he should be an elected official!!!

Steve Jobs And Jeff Bezos Meet The Segway, "Ever wanted to know what Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos really thought about the Segway the first time he saw it? At the Harvard Business School site, there's an excerpt from the new book 'Code Name Ginger', giving a recounting of the Apple and Amazon bosses' first impressions of the device. Steve Jobs' gut reaction, quoted in the article: 'I think it sucks!'"

i have seen a lot of shows in my life, but last night....

CD Price-Fixing Suit Ruling, "As the AP reported Friday, if you filed a claim before March 3, 2003 online or otherwise you'll be getting a gift in the mail from those monopolistic music companies in the form of a check for about $13!" Want to hurt them, here is your chance to take somethingh back. Can you imagine what would actually happen if all consumers mad a claim tomorrow?!?

AOL Dropping RIM for Danger Sidekick, "After trying to cut the cord for wireless e-mail with RIM, AOL is pulling the plug on its mobile communicator, citing a move away from its older wireless technology. The disgruntled can get a discount on a shiny new T-Mobile color Sidekick." Wireless email is a rather small niche, and it's cool that current users won't be left high and dry, but it looks like they'll have to pay some money to continue using the service. i said one day the end of the BB would come! Die BB die! Viva la Sidekick!!!

Microsoft Kills Off Mac IE, Blames Safari, "CNet reports that Microsoft will not release any more major upgrades for Internet Explorer on MacOS. They cite competition from Safari as the reason for this decision, and say that Safari is a better browser for Macintosh systems. Ironically, they also say that they can't compete with Apple, because Apple has better access to the underlying operating system." Yeah, that must be rough. Today's SlashDotFunQuiz is to predict the order in which, impact when, and years until these other Mac products get the axe: Media Player, MSN Messenger, Office, Outlook, and Virtual PC. Looks like round two is here. Lawyers get your rens and pencils ready. Let the games begin!!!

Shuttle Set for Launch on Dec 18th, Says NASA, "Just a quick note for you guys - According to space.com, NASA's target date for the next shuttle launch is Dec. 18th, with a whole bunch of new guidelines." i was beging to wonder, i mean i gota get up there soon!!!

Online Newshour Tackling Digital Copyright, "The online version of the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer is tackling copyright in the digital age. They are sponsoring a forum where Lawrence Lessig will square off against RIAA executive Matt Oppenheim. Anyone can submit questions, and the best questions or comments will be posted to Lessig and Oppenheim for debate and discussion. I know that the producers understand the importance of this debate, and would love insightful questions." Looks worth tuning in for.

Los Angeles Gets Own TLD, "On June 9th, Los Angeles officially becomes the world's first city to have its own Internet domain.Great to hear since one day I hope to be an owner of my own TLD and this is a step in the right direction. ;) The registry is located at www.la and further details at DMnews.com" Looks like an Irish firm made a deal with Laos to use the .la TLD. Looks to be on the pricier side of domains, though. i have been saying for years LA is a big city, no one believed me!!!

Lessig And RIAA Answer NewsHour Questions, "Is downloading copyrighted music tantamount to stealing? Lawrence Lessig, an expert on Internet law from Stanford University's Law School, and Matt Oppenheim, senior vice president of business and legal affairs for the Recording Industry Association of America, answer your questions about this heated debate."

Hand-Held Scanner Designed To Detect Cancer, Italian scientists have developed and are testing a hand-held scanner, similar to metal detectors used in airports, to diagnose cancerous tumours. Its like a real life Tricorder!!! Thx dad!!!

See Ads Can Rock, check this one by Honda!!! Thx Tree!!! (Flash 6 req)

Ask The DJ, is a sophisticated mix engine which analyses the music's rhythm to perform DJ-like transitions between tracks... automatically! Crazy, hope this isn't putting any of my friends out of work any time soon!

The demo song is interesting and definitely worth a listen. Good proof of concept. Now if you can teach the program to distinguish between breaks and different types of music then they might be really on to something. But i guess one step at a time. Wonder how it does with really syncopated break beats!?!

"V" Sequel Coming to NBC, "According to CNN, twenty years after NBC's hit sci-fi miniseries "V" invaded the small screen, the network is bringing the aliens back with "V: The Second Generation," a three-hour TV movie from the original creator Kenneth Johnson."

The Body Behind Vice City's Tommy Vercetti, "Vice City antihero Tommy Vercetti snarls with the voice of Ray Liotta, but that’s only half of what brings the character to life. Meet the body: Jonathan Sale is a 29-year-old New York-based actor; you’ve seen him on everything from Law and Order and Ed to the soaps Guiding Light and As the World Turns. He’s also acted in independent films, off-Broadway shows and TV commercials. Jonathan graciously answered some of our e-mail questions about what it’s like to be Tommy Vercetti’s body."

Just go see it. (Quicktime req.) Thanks Jenn!!!

43 Million Americans Use P2P Software, "If the NYTimes article is correct then somewhere around 1 in 6 Americans apparently are unindicted felons. In the eyes of the public file swapping is as morally wrong as speeding on the NJ Turnpike. The rest of the article talks about the RIAA's carrot/stick/education approach and how they may find themselves entering into negotiations for some forms of file sharing. Also the EFF will be running ads in Rolling Stone next month asking if enthusiasts are tired of being treated like criminals." Thoes are some big numbers. Maybe its time to do some changing of the copyright laws!!!

RIAA Grabs Student's Life's Savings, "ABCNews is reporting on a 19-year-old college student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. He created a site named ChewPlastic.com where students could search for files on the university network. Mind you, this is not a music file sharing software, this is just a search engine. Presumably, the search engine was being used to search for music files as well. The folks over at the RIAA did not take too kindly to the idea, and sued the student. He settled but denies any wrongdoing. What was settlement, you ask? His life's savings." This has got to fucking stop!!!

Are we gona sue, google for making a search engine that lets people find copyrighted materials that have been misapropriated? How about m$ for making a server and a browser that that let you download them, or aol for that matter? Maybe apple? What the fuck is goin on here!!!

BTW if your reading this and you work for the RIAA, FUCK YOU!!!

Been picking up a bunch of new tunes. Actually more than i have had time to listen to, as of late. Anyway man just listened to Cat Power, Moon Pix album. WOW, this girls got it!!!

Cell Phone Number Portability Ruling, "Checking the Court's Opinion site every day has paid off. Verizon's action on the FCC's number portability ruling was dismissed by the D.C. Court of Appeals. The court found that Verizon had waited far too long to bring the challenge and it also sided with the FCC's interpretation of the Law rather than Verizon. Barring any other action we may see number portability this year. Unfortunately, Verizon is already lobbying to have the law changed. But it was also nice to see Cingular was on the FCC's side of the case." Looks like i might actually be able to a get a real phone and service soon!!!

T-Mobile Introduces Color T-Mobile Sidekick, "Customers who want to use just the device's powerful data functionality can get a stand-alone plan that includes unlimited email, Web browsing, AIM and text messaging for $29.99 a month...." Time to move over bb. Your time is done here!!!

i got a new TOY!!! err, uh i meant tool. for school that is. i got a new IBOOK!!! :)

Microsoft's Browser Play, "Purveyors and consumers of Web content and software, already unsettled by the pact between archrivals Microsoft and AOL Time Warner, may be in store for an even more radical upset: the end of Microsoft's standalone Internet Explorer browser." Looks like they are at it again!!!

Palm To Buy Handspring In Stock Swap, Palm said Wednesday that it will buy rival Handspring for approximately $169 million in an effort to strengthen its grip on the market for handheld devices. Bummer! Its the end of an era and possibly handheld innovation for a while!!!

Quick update. For thoes who do not know, i just started school. It is a one year LL.M. program in entertainment and media. An LL.M. is like a masters, kind of. You can get one after you get your JD, what i got on my first trip to law school. Anyway the program is in LA at Southwestern. The program is the only one of its kind and it just started. So i'm a beta tester once again! :) Anyway this semesters (summer) classes are Entertainment Law (my third time taking it), Entertainment Labor Law, and Music Publishing (the understanding of which has some how always alluded me, but now it's nailed). In any case school is cool and i am happy to be back!!!

TiVo To Sell Data On Viewing Habits Of Subscribers, TiVo, known for re-inventing television viewing through digital video recording, will begin selling advertisers data it collects on the viewing habits of its subscribers. Bummer! Maybe it is time to hack your tivo and become a blank!!!

Nextel To Up U.S. 'Push To Talk' Range, Nextel subscribers will soon be able to use Nationwide Direct Connect, which the company plans to introduce Monday, to "push to talk" (PTT), which creates a direct connection between cell phones, walkie-talkie style. (wow nice sentence!) PTT conversations to travel on Nextel's Internet protocol backbone! More reason for me to switch providers!!!

Stem Cell "Master Gene" Found, From the Washington Post (via /.), "'Scientists yesterday said they have discovered a long-sought "master gene" in embryonic stem cells that is largely responsible for giving those cells their unique regenerative and therapeutic potential.' The report summarizes an article in the newest issue of the scientific journal, Cell"!!!

NPR : The Spiritual Message of 'The Matrix', "The film The Matrix Reloaded has excited philosophers, clerics and theologians who find rich in spiritual meaning in the film trilogy's underlying themes. NPR's Rick Karr speaks with authors and experts about the religion of The Matrix trilogy and the the significance of being 'The One.'" Must listen!!! (real or wmv) Also check...

The Gospel According To Neo, Theologians and pop-culture experts see 'The Matrix' as a phenomenon shaping public opinion about religion by Josh Burek a staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.

WOW! Didn't any of them get it...there is no spoon!!!

Justices Decree DVD Show Must Go On, "Claiming that a controversial DVD de-scrambling code has long been available online worldwide, a man accused of improperly linking Internet viewers to the code asked earlier this year that the case against him be declared moot. On Wednesday, the California Supreme Court rejected his plea 4-1, ensuring that the closely watched case remains on the court's May 29 oral argument calendar in San Francisco." Here it comes!!!

Sony Debuts Eye Toy for PlayStation 2, "at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles, Sony shows off the Eye Toy, a new accessory for the PlayStation 2. The USB camera functions as a custom game controller and is expected to eventually support videoconferencing and other uses." New interfaces are dope! This ones not 100% but its a new direction that may show promise so give it up for Sony!!! (real or wmv)

Matrix Reloads For Gamers, "At the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, ZDNet's Patrick Houston looks at Shiny Entertainment's video game "Enter the Matrix," developed for the PC, Xbox, GameCube and PlayStation2. " Ok so not only did they do it in the movie but the Brothers W smaked an hours worth of never before seen footage into the game too!!! (real or wmv)

N-Gage at E3, "At the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles, Nokia showcases a combination game console and cell phone called N-Gage. The device allows users to play games with each other over a cellular telephone network." If you have not seen this you MUST! This could change the world of entertainment!!! (real or wmv)

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Gameboy Advance Users To Get Bluetooth Internet, "According to this Extremetech article, X-Tra Fun has developed a Bluetooth module for the Gameboy Advance which is expected to ship by Christmas 2003. The $49 module includes Bluetooth connectivity, although a cellphone or other Bluetooth device with Internet access is required to use the Internet, and it comes with an embedded eCos Linux kernel with a Web browser and 255 pages' worth of cache. A $99 upgrade adds a Secure Digital card slot and a dongle!" The world just keeps getting better!!!

Online NewsHour, is taking your questions and comments on the topic, "is downloading copyrighted music tantamount to stealing? Lawrence Lessig, an expert on Internet law from Stanford University's Law School, and Matt Oppenheim, Senior Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs for the Recording Industry Association of America, answer your questions about this heated debate." Go post your own, be heard!!!

Hybrid Robot Uses Rat Brain "After two recent stories of artificial brains used to control rats and one about MIT doing the reverse, NYTimes now has a piece on similar work done at Georgia Tech From the article: "...the layer of rat neurons is grown over an array of electrodes that pick up the neurons' electrical activity. A computer analyzes the activity of the several thousand brain cells in real time to detect spikes produced by neurons firing near an electrode." But this time you can buy one for $3,000." The only thing i like more than a good robot is one that combines biological properties!!!

DVD Copyright Case Mulled Over By Judge, slashdot says, "news.com is reporting that the judge in a closely watched lawsuit challenging the legality of DVD-copying software said she was 'substantially persuaded' by past court rulings that favored copyright holders, but closed a hearing Thursday without issuing a ruling in the case." This is one to watch!!!

Are you a friend of P? Long live the Rentals!!!

Paperfolding, is a nice site that explains a little bit about the math in Origami. This ones for Dog!!!

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!!!

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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!!!

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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!!!