Archive for November, 2005
More Sony Shennanigans
30 November 2005God sony music make me angry!!! Plus this one from slashdot - “Sony Warned Weeks Ahead of Rootkit Flap” from which the following comment was shamelessly stolen:
Lest we forget, Sony is still shipping CDs with SunnComm’s MediaMax
[ciocentral.com] DRM on them — ten […]
Clippy the office ASSistant
29 November 2005
Wise words
28 November 2005Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is
the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things
are and what they ought to be. - William Hazlitt
Linux on Everything
28 November 2005Reading slashdot one will often see comments of the ‘yes, but does it run linux?’ ilk whenever any new product or application is mentioned. This is due to the masochistic nature of some linux hackers (known as the “linux on everything” movement) who see the need to get linux to run on just about anything […]
Chilling Effect
26 November 2005You’ve all probably heard at some point or another mention of the
shining beacon in the great American fight against piracy that is the DMCA (Digital
Millenium Copyright Act). If you read the same news sources I do then
you will probably not have heard it […]
American Politics
22 November 2005I’ve just finished reading this very well written piece on how the Iraq
war has been affecting the political landscape, and in particular the
(welcome) shift in perception of the Terror card that the
administration has up until now been playing with such effect.
[…]
Sony DRM
21 November 2005Perhaps you’ve heard about the issues surrounding Sony’s latest attempt to stop you from illegally copying their precious copyright on your PC. To quickly catch you up to speed here is the skinny 411.
About six months ago Sony started shipping music CDs with a copy protection named XCP from a UK company called First4Internet. […]
iBook Cover
21 November 2005I’m betting that this guy won’t have any problems telling which iBook is his… what with the giant lemur like creature laser etched onto the front. Took $20,000 worh of equipment to do it properly but it does look pretty sweet.
ITunes and variable pricing
20 November 2005You may have heard speculation recently that Apple is going to start releasing songs on iTunes under a variable pricing regime. Most of these rumors have come from the record label side of the fence and normally come with a “don’t you want to pay less for your old favourites” type of message. There are […]
Faces of tomorrow
18 November 2005Wow, this is a very cool concept. This guy has been around the world
photographing peoples faces in major cities around the world, he then
goes on to arrange composite images of the average male/female faces
from those cities to show the effects of multiculturalism and […]