Yahoo Reminds Users That 'No' Doesn't Mean 'No': "Looks like Yahoo is resetting their 'Marketing Preferences' again. In an email I received from Yahoo today it states, 'Starting January 1, 2004, Yahoo! will begin to send you messages, via email or postal mail, about our own products and services. You can control the types of messages you receive by visiting your Marketing Preferences at any time'. It also states, 'And, as always, you can delete your Yahoo! account altogether at any time, for any reason, by going to the deletion page.' I deleted my Yahoo account a month ago. I guess they are lying, because I'm still getting their SPAM."

sounds like its time for joe to get 17200 on their ass!!!

AppleCare for iPod: "Apple is now offering AppleCare for the iPod from their online Apple Store. The new service from Apple costs $59.00 and offers two years of coverage for the 'iPod and its original included accessories (excluding the carrying case) that are defective in materials or workmanship or for battery depletion of 50 percent or more from original specification'."

Radiohead To Headline Coachella 2004?: "RADIOHEAD are strongly rumoured to headline the COACHELLA FESTIVAL next year in INDIO, CALIFORNIA."

UPDATE:
tom york via urb via jenn, radiohead will be playing the opening slot before headliner the PIXIES!!! ;)

Bill Joy On His New G5: "Rock Solid": "In an interview with Wired, Bill Joy (ex-Sun) says that he 'just got a new Mac with two 2-gigahertz processors, 8 gigabytes of memory, and a half a terabyte of internal disk.' Joy admits being underwhelmed with Linux and has even less time for Windows but with regard to Mac OSX he says 'Mac OSX is a rock-solid system that's beautifully designed. I much prefer it to Linux.'"

Techno DJ Is Hot, Hot, Hawtin: "Based in Berlin but constantly on the move, Hawtin juggles DJing, recording and running a record label with the help of a couple of laptops, several cell phones and a network of business partners based all over the world. "

SoundScan Adds More Stores: "Nielsen SoundScan said Monday that it added four online music stores to its tracking service, a move that will increase the survey's accuracy in following the nascent but fast-growing industry. "

Recording Industry's Unexpected Benefit from P2P: "Yahoo / AP is reporting that the record industry is using the files traded on Kazza et al. to track where music is popular. It turns out that they even pay for this information. 'It's the most vast and scalable sample audience that the world has ever seen'' Now if they could only use this data to somehow put out better music..."

sounds like non-infringing uses to me!!!

Tokyoflash LED watches , Directly from Tokyo Japan

DMCA Doesn't Protect Garage Door Remotes: "A federal judge in Illinois has ruled that a univeral remote garage door opener does not violate the DMCA. 'Consumers have a reasonable expectation that they can replace the original product with a competing universal product without violating federal law,' Judge Rebecca M. Pallmeyer said. 'This was an attempt to expand the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to where it had never gone before,' said Andrea B. Greene, attorney for privately held Skylink, the manufacture of the garage door opener in question. '[This is] very good news for consumers.' Additional coverage at Wired and Security Focus."

The Elegant Universe, Now Available Online: "PBS has made available online all three hours of the NOVA program on unified theory. Formats are QuickTime and RealVideo with each hour broken up into eight chapters each.' I watched the whole thing, and while it's clearly for a lay audience (no math required), it was fun and informative. I was pleased to note that dissenting views on whether string theory was science were presented, and even brief discussion of what constitutes science. "

First Reproducing Artificial Virus Created: "USAToday is reporting that Craig Venter's research group has synthesized a virus from scratch and that it 'became bioactive' (started reproducing). Particularly interesting is that it only took them two weeks to build, rather than several years that previous attempts had taken."

New Animated Dr. Who Series: "To celebrate the doctor's fourtieth anniversary, the BBC and Cosgrove Hall Films are webcasting a fully-animated adventure starring Richard E. Grant. You can watch the first episode of Scream of the Shalka and new episodes will be launched every Thursday. Enjoy.' It requires Flash 4, but also looks pretty damn cool."

Yahoo! Mail - markfriedlander@yahoo.com

Quote of the day: "How do you know when your drunk? Perhaps when u spill your drink all over the bathroom floor - flail"

Laying Down the Virtual Law: "A collection of the brightest thinkers and best designers of games like EverQuest, and metaverses like There and Second Life, will be talking in New York starting Thursday. They're gathering for the first State of Play: Law, Games and Virtual Worlds conference. "

ITunes Undermines Social Security: "As if it weren't hard enough to be cool already, Apple Computer has introduced a new way for people to ruin their social standing."

pretty crazy implications i never considered, but feel free to check mine, i stand by everything in my crate!!!

Ritz Disposable Digital Camera Hacked: "The $10.99 Dakota reusable digital camera announced in July was usefully hacked on November 6. First attempts to extract picture data took 10 hours to read out 16MB, but new code for Linux and Mac and Windows lets you get pictures quickly over USB and view or print them without Ritz's help (and with fewer of your $$)."

Bombardier's Hot Wheel: "Following the release of the Segway, Bombardier (the makers of such things as Ski-Doo and Lynx snowmobiles) announce their prototype Embrio - a motorcycle-like unicycle that uses gyroscopes to balance itself and runs off hydrogen fuel cells. It also features a landing gear that automatically retracts once you reach 12 m.p.h. The story is at Forbes. You can also get more information directly from their website."

CMU Unveils Robot Hall Of Fame: "Carnegie Mellon University has just unveiled the Robot Hall of Fame. Along with that announcement, MSNBC has an article about the first honorary inductees, including R2D2 and Mars Pathfinder. You also have the chance to nominate other robots."

The World of the Droids: "Long before their famous adventures with the Rebel Alliance, R2-D2 and C-3PO were assigned to many different masters by the Intergalactic Droid Agency.

In this animated series, the droids encounter many unforgettable people: greedy villains set on conquering planets, terrible space pirates, and brave heroes."

Radiohead To Run BBC: "They will run digital service BBC 6 Music for a week over the Christmas period, choosing music, artists and programmes."

Disordered Assemblies: "Jim Tour, of Rice University says 'Our research shows that ordered precision isn't a prerequisite for computing. It is possible to make memory circuits out of disordered systems.' The article on www.e4engineering.com says the team has made 'NanoCells', self assembled devices made from gold nanowires and organic conductive molecules. These NanoCells are the first devices of their kind to be made into working microelectronic devices, apparently.' Yep. Let an untold number of machines try to create NanoCells, and statistics says you'll find the most efficient kind. "

Star Wars: Clone Wars on Cartoon Network!!!

Captured! By Robots: Videos, don't ask. just go see!!!

iTunes Music Store - 'Coolest Invention of 2003': "Time Magazine has just named the iTunes Music Store as their Top Coolest Invention of 2003. Also among this year's favorites are 'fish-skin bikinis, a new love drug, the car that parks itself, and the invisible man'."

one word: cupertino!!!

A Peek Inside the Secret World: "Fun can be discovered at the new International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C."

:)

Matrix 3 Breaks Box Office Records: "The final part of The Matrix trilogy has taken £120 million at cinemas around the world in a record-breaking opening weekend."

Not bad since imdb reports a budget of $110 million.

Viruses Are Good for You: "Spawn of the devil, computer viruses may help us realize the full potential of the Net."

The Psychology of Virus Writers: "BBC Technology reports on the psychology of virus writers and the work of security researcher Sarah Gordon, who has been studying this area for 20 years. ''The stereotype that virus writers are all young teenage boys with no social life, hiding in their basement is not accurate,' she said. In contrast, she said, most virus creators are typical for their age, are on good terms with friends and family and are often contributors to their local community.' The story is an interesting contrast to a previous BBC report about why people write viruses."

MIT's Sensetable: "Sensetable is a system that wirelessly tracks the positions of multiple objects on a flat display surface quickly and accurately. The tracked objects have a digital state, which can be controlled by physically modifying them using dials or tokens."

i love new guis. looks like media lab is still rockin it!!!

O'Grady's PowerPage - Your Mobile Technology Destination

PowerPage says: "Wireless Number Portability comes on November 24th"

WHAHOOOO your all clear kid!!!

Mammoth Is Open: We have a base of 2-3 feet, with Discovery Chair and Broadway Express and now ThunderBound Express operating today! Face Lift and Stump Alley are expected to be added for this weekend!!!

let the season begin!!!

Penguins for President?

Penguins for President?: "Is there any significance to what Web server/platform combinations 2004 presidential candidates are using?"

for the super geek but kinda cool!!! :)

Playstation Portable Pics Pop Up: "Sony Computer Entertainment chief Ken Kutaragi yesterday revealed the company's prototype design for its upcoming Playstation Portable (PSP) handheld gaming console."

BRMC Forced To Call A Halt To Leeds Show: BMRC litteraly blows the buinding apart!!!

McDonald's To Give Away iTunes Songs: "Apparently, McDonald's is going to start giving away iTunes songs. Except instead of the hundred million that Pepsi will offer, the fast food giant is planning to offer a billion. Look for me rumaging through the trash at your neighborhood Micky D's.' Look for new signs saying '1 billion songs downloaded."

Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence: "I spotted on Ain't it cool news that Mamoru Oshii's new anime Innocence Ghost In The Shell 2's website is now open! The trailer is beautiful!"

Slashdot | Killing Cancer With a Virus

Killing Cancer With A Virus: "The U.S. National Cancer Institute has just decided to fund multiple human clinical studies to test the reovirus. This naturally occuring virus has a remarkable ability to infect and kill cancer cells, without affecting normal, healthy cells. Here is a before and after picture of a terminal patient with an actively growing neck tumour that had failed to respond to conventional treatments. This tumour was eliminated with only a single injection of the Reovirus. Researchers at Oncolytics Biotech have shown that the Reovirus can kill many types of cancer, including breast, prostate, pancreatic and brain tumours. Human clinical trial results indicate that there are no safety concerns and that the reovirus shrinks and even eliminates tumours injected with this virus. Numerous other third party studies show that the reovirus should be an important discovery in the treatment of 2/3 of all human cancers."

holly shit, you must see this!!!

Xbox To Switch To PowerPC: "Microsoft's next-generation Xbox will ditch its Intel chip in favor of the same kind of chip used in Apple's Macs"

first they take on cray and make 'big mac' (currently #3 in the world), take on rio and sony making the ipod (#1 in the world), take on the big 5 making itms (#1 in the us), now they may back door the xbox!!!

Spammed By Bluetooth: "BBC News is reporting a new craze - using Bluetooth to send unsolicited messages. Apparently lots of phone owners are leaving Bluetooth switched on, meaning that anyone within range can send a short message. The phenomenon is known as 'bluejacking'. It's not clear at present that this is being done by anyone other than pranksters, but one can't help wondering, how long before commercial spammers catch on."

zipping's next!!!

Slashdot | MIT's Music Net Shut Down Over License Issues

MIT's Music Net Shut Down Over License Issues: "MIT's LAMP music-over-cable initiative has been shut down due to licensing concerns, as reported on The Boston Globe. Ars Technica has a good summary of the story. It appears that Loudeye did not have the rights to sell music to MIT for distribution over cable, although they apparently assured MIT that they did in fact have those rights. Murky, unexplored legal quagmire or RIAA influenced revisionism?"

Microsoft Voice Command: " We had it installed on a HP iPaq H3970 running Windows Mobile 2003. It brings to the Pocket PC world that feeling of 'Star Trek', some of the stuff we used to dream of while watching the movies on TV. Like Mr Spock saying 'computer, where is Captain Kirk now?'"

Terahertz Scanners See Inside Sealed Packages: "Japanese scientists have demonstrated a system that detects the presence of illicit drugs that are concealed within an envelope. Tests to date have shown that the imaging system can successfully detect and identify a range of substances including ecstasy (MDMA) and methamphetamine. The researchers are now working with companies to develop a mail screening system that could suit use in post offices and airports."

Elliott Smith's Idea Of Heaven Was Modest: "he died Tuesday, Oct. 21, of a single, self-inflicted stab-wound to the chest. Like so many rock deaths, his was a long time in the making, but no less sad or shocking for all the warnings that preceded it. 'Give me one reason not to do it,' Smith sang on his final album, which now remains unfinished. "

:(

More on 'Big Mac': "In preliminary performance tests carried out on 2,112 of the system's 2,200 processors, the so-called 'Big Mac' cluster achieved 8.1 teraflops, or trillions of operations per second, according to figures published on Wednesday. The system is still being tuned, and final results won't be announced until next month, but the performance figure would place the Big Mac at No. 4 on the list of the world's fastest 500 supercomputers.

The figures are remarkable partly because Macintosh hardware has long been absent from the top 500 list, but also because of the Big Mac's cost. In a world where the top machines traditionally cost $100 million to $250 million, and take several years to build, the Mac-based system cost just over $5 million, and was put together in about a month. "

thats what i'm sayin', big up cupertino!!!

G5 Cluster: "The New York Times provides preliminary numbers for the fully assembled PowerMac G5 Cluster which Virginia Tech assembled this month.

The preliminary numbers rank the G5 Cluster as the 4th in the world in performance with 7.41 trillion operations per second . Official results will not be reported until November, and Tech reports that they are 'still finalizing their results and that the final speed number might be significantly higher.'

The relative cost of the entire assembly is significantly less then previous solutions."

word!!!

Sony Ericsson: P900, need more be said?!?

Linux. The Future Is Open.: "If Linux were a person, he would be growing, fast. Taught by the best. Gaining wisdom beyond his years. And sharing. He would be in business, education, government and homes. He would be a nine-year-old boy changing the world."

looks like ibm is going for game set match! this ad (90 sec, full cut) is an absolute must watch!!!

Big Thinkers, KurzweilAI.net hosts lots of great writings from thoes with big brains!!!

AI Sues For Its Life In Mock Trial: "Attorney Dr. Martine Rothblatt filed a motion for a preliminary injunction to prevent a corporation from disconnecting an intelligent computer in a mock trial at the International Bar Association conference in San Francisco. Assuming Moore's law holds, ethics might be in for some major revisions in a couple decades. High-end computer systems may surpass the computational ability of the standard human brain within 20 years. In this mock trial, an AI asks a lawyer for help after learning of plans to shut it down and replace its core hardware, essentially killing it. The transcript provides an in-depth look at what could become a real issue in the future."

i have been saying this was gona be the next big thing...here we go!!!

Universities Developing Internal, Controlled P2P System, "Penn State along with MIT and the University of British Columbia are developing a P2P application (called LionShare in the PSU incarnation) to be used only by students, faculty and staff. According to this article at the Penn State Daily Collegian, the file-sharing program, which wouldn't be completed until 2005 at the earliest, would log each transaction, allowing illegal use of the network to be traced. The purpose of this is to lessen the load on servers for tasks such as professors sending files to students, thereby decreasing the amount of manpower necessary to administer them. Funding will come in part by a grant from the Mellon Foundation, as well as from the students' information technology fee."

not sure i like the tracking, but what's important to note is p2p is basically just like load balancing, about time some one else explained this. i have been bringing it up in my law classes for years but seems lost on most. p2p is just an architecture!!!

Supreme Court Will Hear Pledge of Allegiance Case, "As reported in this CNN.com article, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case next year (most likely in June) involving whether public schools can lead students in a 'voluntary' recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance. At issue in this case is whether the inclusion of the phrase 'under God' in the pledge constitutes an establishment of religion on the part of the state and an infringement on students' religious liberty when it is recited in the public school setting. This case comes to the Supreme Court as an appeal of the June 2002 ruling made by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals--a decision that led to one of the most active stories in Slashdot history.' The CNN article's emphasis on voluntariness -- 'whether schoolchildren can be allowed to recite the Pledge voluntarily' -- is grossly misleading, almost propagandistic. Most states have laws requiring the pledge to be recited every day as a class activity, and these are the laws in question. In theory students shouldn't be punished for failing to recite along with the rest of the class (due to a previous Supreme Court decision). No state has a law prohibiting anyone from reciting the pledge voluntarily, whenever they want to."

Transmeta Introduces The Efficeon, "Information Week and others are reporting on Transmeta's new Efficeon chip. 1.1 GHz, 7 Watts, 1MB cache, 130 nanometer technology. A marked improvement over their previous generation. Let's hope they can capitalize on this before Intel starts filling the same niche. Looks like a nice product, Linus and Co."

thanks linus, keep on keepin' on!!!

Does Your Company Censor the Content for You?, "A few days ago a friend of mine and I were discussing this story. He was trying to make a joke about some content in the article that might be considered 'inappropriate' (the bit concerning 22,000 files). I didn't get his joke because the interesting bits weren't there. With a little investigation, I determined that my company's proxy server was delivering a modified version. Is this a common practice? Has anyone else noticed something similar?'


'In this case, words were not just filtered out, but the text had been changed so that the document still made sense. I suspect that someone monitoring a log and suddenly saw a document show up a bunch of times with the offending text in it. Then they modified the cached copy (I was viewing it a day after it hit the Slashdot front page) to make the alarm go away.

I have mix feelings about this, on one hand, even though the text in this case was meant as a joke and the content wasn't very offensive, I was using company equipment. But on the other hand, this company is a government regulated entity which isn't above pressuring its employees to vote the way management thinks is best (whether it is or not is a question for history). So I guess I'm scared that the company could push an agenda though 'stealth channels'. I realize that the information I read online can't always be trusted, but there are many people who don't know that. It's probably important to note that, while there is a policy of acceptable computer use, there has never been a notice that they might change the content we see online."

be afraid!!!

China Sends First Taikonaut To Space, "Space.com reports that China has just successfully launched its first manned space mission. 'Blasting off from a remote space base in the Gobi Desert atop a Long March 2F rocket, a single Chinese astronaut named Yang Liwei is on his way to circle the planet every 90 minutes aboard the Shenzhou 5 spacecraft. As a result, China has become only the third nation on Earth capable of independently launching its citizens into orbit. ' Perhaps this will kick the US space program back into gear?' aerojad points to this Reuters report, about which he says 'The article is short on details, aside from 'Xinhua said the craft carried astronaut Yang Liwei, 38. The launch on Wednesday, 42 years after the Soviet Union put the first man into space, marked a milestone for China's secretive space programme, which analysts say has its sights set on a manned mission to the moon.' The mission is due to end in 21 hours.' zxm adds a link to China Daily's coverage, and puiwah to a story on MSNBC."

maybe now we'll start thinking about getting off our arses!!!

142 Directors Appeal MPAA to Repeal Screener Ban: "Nearly 150 directors, including heavy hitters such as Robert Altman, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Redford, and others have sent a letter to Jack Valenti & the MPAA. In the letter, published in the Friday issue of Variety, they call for an end to the ban on screeners, suggesting that the lack of screeners will harm the potential of movies that take risks and rely on critical acclaim. Despite the star power behind those signing on the letter, and after a conference call with 3 studio executives, what was the MPAA's response? '...the screener policy remains as it was originally announced.' Will this mean an end to Academy Awards going to movies that open in only 100 theaters nationwide, or will it take an entire studio chain such as Universal or MGM to knock some sense into Valenti's mind?" take that jack!!!

Online Journalists are ISPs?, "Long-time C|Net reporter and Politech operator Declan McCullagh has been contacted by the FBI, according to his most recent article. The FBI requests that he retain all records regarding his talks with Adrian Lamo. The problem? The FBI's letter was sent under the auspices of a law which applies only to internet service providers. Says Declan, 'Perhaps I'd be immune from the FBI's demands if I used an Underwood No. 5 typewriter instead.' Does writing online now qualify one as an ISP?" i have been saying this for years!!!

Possible PS2 Price Portent Pondered, "Could Nintendo soon be sharing shelf space at the $99 rack? According to an article on IGN.com, an internal source at Target claims to have received printed fliers with the Playstation 2 listed at $99. If you remember from an earlier story from September, it was an advance newspaper ad from Target (again), as well as a leaked scan of a Wal-Mart ad, that told the world about the GameCube's price before it happened. Given how the GameCube is outselling the PS2 & XBox - would a price drop so low be so unexpected? One last tidbit to contemplate: Sony is ready to roll the manufacturing plants for their smaller 90 nanometer PS2 CPU. Maybe that price drop isn't so unbelievable after all..." WOW!!!

EMusic sold; Unlimited MP3 Downloads Nixed, "EMusic, one of the oldest digital music subscription services still operating, is being sold by parent company Vivendi Universal after years of operating in the shadow of younger rivals."

End of an era!!!

Student Faces Suit Over Key To CD Locks, "SunnComm Technologies, a developer of CD antipiracy technology, said Thursday that it will likely sue a Princeton student who early this week showed how to evade the company's copy protection by pushing a computer's Shift key."

this is getting more ridiculous by the day!!!

The Place To Go To Find The Place To Go From Your Chair, fucking finally!!!

Just in case. Flight #2004 on southwest can be reached by usual methods to get at my mobile. Be with sunny ht and d if mine is not functioning.

Napster

Napster bits, fucking briliant!!!

pictures of you has been licenced by hp. here's to you robert!!!

a little catch up on the last few days. jeremy appears from the past. cat visits. radiohead is no longer in the worst live act ever category. started at wonderland. anna christina eric thank you your all bomb! having really good time learning tons. meeting dope new kids. school good. kids good. interviewing at lions gate next week for spring internship and cred. digital rights and tunes con with passman!

New Solar Cells 20 Times Cheaper: "STMicroelectronics has announced a new generation of photocells made from organic plastics. Over a typical 20-year life span of a solar cell, a single produced watt should cost as little as $0.20, compared with the current $4. See also article @ cnn.com. On a related note, this article @ IEEE discusses new improved LED technology by the same team."

this ones for paul, very cool!!!

Innocent File-Sharers Could Appear Guilty?, "New Scientist has an article about what could be a promising defense strategy for people targeted by the RIAA. Basically, anyone on the Gnutella network can frame other users by making it look like someone is hosting RIAA music, even though they're not. Therefore, the RIAA's 'evidence' against file sharers is theoretically unreliable and wouldn't stand as good a chance of holding up in court. No mention of whether this has anything to do with the RIAA's eagerness to settle the lawsuits out of court. The article is based on a research paper posted anonymously to a web hosting service in Australia."

interesting!!!

pure design, dope design, thx tree!!!

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

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

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

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

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

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

Can you say dope!!!

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

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

Founded by musicians, for musicians.

No major label connections.

We are not evil. "

sounds very very interesting!!!

British rock star Robert Palmer dies at 54

British rock star Robert Palmer dies at 54, :(

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

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

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

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

Rotation Archive

Rotation Archive:
D4
Friendster
HeadPhoneRecord
Hüsker Dü
Sigur Rós
The Beach Boys
The Clash
Trail Of Dead
Transistor Lounge

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FilmWise

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

Neuron News from DPRI

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

anyway just a thought!!! any takers?

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

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

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

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