Monthly Archives: January 2004

More on music

Bob had a really good post a few days ago about the current state of the music industry.

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Downloadable music and DRM

Cory Doctorow has a great post on BoingBoing about the sad state of music downloads in response to someone else who recommends that we choose the lesser of two evils. I voiced sentiments similar to Cory’s something similar a while … Continue reading

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Quick Oscar nominee reactions

For reference None of the ROTK stuff was a surprise. I’m guessing that they’ll give it best director and best picture. If not, Lost in Translation should get one or the other. It’s certain to win for screenplay. Bill Murray … Continue reading

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Baby Chaos – 01.20.2004

Baby Chaos for the new year.

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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

Okay, so I’m just parroting stuff from BoingBoing, but these are just too damn funny. What would the comedy world do without GW? If I wasn’t laughing so much, I might cry. IKEA is opening a Dallas location in 2005 … Continue reading

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Echo

I found a few links this morning worth mentioning. Bob Mould’s new blog pointed me to a useful comparison of the democratic candidates courtesy of the Washington Post. Also, I saw on Off the Kuff and Burnt Orange Report that … Continue reading

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Suspected Terrorist

I just ran across this via BoingBoing. Mark, one of the editors, had his own run-in with some TSA employees. We had a similar incident of our own on our way back from Maui this past summer. On the one … Continue reading

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"Special" entrepreneur

I’m surprised that I haven’t seen more about this in the news and on other blogs. In his speech announcing that another billon dollars will be allocated to NASA over the next 5 years (nevermind how we’ll pay for that … Continue reading

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And there was much rejoicing

So after failing several times to figure out how to get the Debian machine not to boot into the screwed up X Window configuration, it dawned on me that I could ssh into the box from my WinXP machine. Duh. … Continue reading

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uh oh

I sense a tremendous time sink in The Fall.

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