Saturday, December 31, 2005

Artist of the Year: Banksy

By pushing the legal limits of what is allowable, Banksy's art builds that much more relevancy. His work in many ways becomes an artistic statement and protest against the tiny little insignificant power figures that pop up everywhere, cops, security guards -- all the little people who want to exert their personal authority and tell you what you can and can't do with art.


Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection: Artist of the Year: Banksy

Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Microsoft Ends IE for Mac

Microsoft Ends IE for Mac:

"Epilogue: All of this made it a lot more easy for me to quit and go work at Google
Reminder: I may or may not be leaving some parts out for NDA reasons."

Interesting read.

Sunday, December 18, 2005

The Spoof - Winnie the Pooh & Christopher Robin Out of The Closet and Planning to Wed in 2006

The Spoof - Winnie the Pooh & Christopher Robin Out of The Closet and Planning to Wed in 2006: "Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh announced on Wednesday that they are in fact in love and have been a couple for the last seventeen years."

Saturday, December 17, 2005

2005 CD Sales Down … Way Down - The Digital Music Weblog - digitalmusic.weblogsinc.com

2005 CD Sales Down … Way Down - The Digital Music Weblog - digitalmusic.weblogsinc.com: "Who wouldn’t want to buy products from major media companies that openly despise their best customers? What college student wouldn’t spend his money at the record store when his friends are getting sued? Why wouldn’t we flock to the store for discs that deposit malicious spyware in our computers? Why wouldn’t we think of music first at gift-giving time, when major labels are getting busted for corrupt and criminal activity?"

Schneier on Security: Computer Crime Hype

Schneier on Security: Computer Crime Hype: "Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers."

Boing Boing: PSP 2.01 firmware unlocked

"anti-customer measures"

Nice.

Boing Boing: PSP 2.01 firmware unlocked:

Boing Boing: Warner/Chappell Music apologizes to PearLyrics

And I still say, fuck the majors.

Boing Boing: Warner/Chappell Music apologizes to PearLyrics

Boing Boing: Congress: "Merry Chrismas! We're Turning Off Your Analog Outs"

Boing Boing: Congress: "Merry Chrismas! We're Turning Off Your Analog Outs"

Friday, December 16, 2005

cease & desist to the music mafia

I should send a cease & desist letter to the music industry: "Stop what you are doing and I might buy from you again."

EFF: Lyrics Browsers, iTunes and Copyright Law

Wednesday, December 14, 2005

C+?

"Browser pioneer Marc Andreessen, chairman of Zend, a PHP company, says the shift is like the one in the 1990s from traditional programming languages C and C+ to Java."

Java? It's So Nineties

Sunday, December 11, 2005

Overpeer is Just Over Now - The Digital Music Weblog - digitalmusic.weblogsinc.com

Overpeer is Just Over Now - The Digital Music Weblog - digitalmusic.weblogsinc.com: "eventually the major labels that contracted Overpeer were over it, and moved on to other strategies like suing mothers for thousands of dollars."