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September 2003
- ICANN to Verisign: Stop it!
- I mentioned before about how Verisign was taking control of unassigned .com and .net domain names with it’s recently released SiteFinder service. Pretty much everyone was immediately up in arms over it. The :ICANN: has now asked Verisign to pull the SiteFinder service while it... full entry
- Wireless Tech with Magnets?
- A new wireless technology is starting to make inroads for short-range applications. Nearly all current wireless technologies (bluetooth, Wi-Fi/802.11b, etc.) use radio frequency (RF) signals to transmit the data. This “new” technique uses magnetic induction instead, and thus consumes far less power while also being... full entry
- Family Guy: The Movie!
- Ho-ly-crap!! Looks as though there’s going to be a direct-to-:DVD: feature length Family Guy at some point. Says creator Seth McFarlane: Timeframe, you’re probably looking at a year, a year-and-a-half down the line. It will take a while to make. If we could do it... full entry
- Wesley Willis R.I.P.
- Wesley Willis, famed artist of such songs as Suck a Donkey’s Bootyhole and Kill That Jerk, passed away last month. I’m really not particularly familiar with his music myself, but Derek mentions him pretty frequently. Of course, Derek may well already be aware of this... full entry
- Smlarbced Wrdos?
- Several different websites have been posting recently about some research (apparently by Kourosh Saberi at UC Irvine and David R. Perrott at Cal State Los Angeles) about the decipherability of English texts made up of words that have had their letters scrambled (except for the... full entry
- Station Owner Charges Less for Gas
- A gas station owner in Kelso, Washington said he’s sick of oil companies gouging the public and decided to do something about it. So, he started selling his gas at cost, which ended up being about 40 cents less than most other stations in town.... full entry
- RIAA ‘Amnesty’ Offer
- If you follow the (tech) news at all, you’ve probably heard about the anticipated :RIAA: Amnesty deal. The basic idea? Give the RIAA a signed and notarized affidavit stating that you promise to respect their copyrights and then destroy/delete all copies of downloaded music you... full entry
- Firefly: The Movie
- It appears that fan-favorite series “Firefly” (damn you Fox for cancelling it!!) will be getting a new breath of life now: it’s scheduled to go into production as a feature film “in first-quarter 2004”. Firefly was an excellent series while it aired. It felt much... full entry
- Greedy TicketMaster
- Oh, as if concert tickets weren’t already expensive enough! It seems that TicketMaster is now planning to simply auction the best tickets off to whoever can pay the most money. Oh, gee… that’s not going to piss fans off. “The band’s biggest fans ought to... full entry
August 2003
- Eat Less to Lose Weight?
- A new breakthrough scientific report says that if you want to lose weight, you need to eat less. Wow, what an insight! Okay, so that’s not revolutionary in the slightest. What disturbs me, though, is just how many people really simply don’t understand this. If... full entry
- Taxing Computer Networks?
- It looks as though Florida may be getting a computer network tax. At least, that’s what a new rule currently being formulated indicates. The proposed rule pushes the definition of communications systems to include local area networks, or LANs, as well as wide area networks,... full entry
- Automatic Microsoft Security Updates?
- Our wonderful friend Microshaft is apparently contemplating “requiring future versions of Windows to accept automatic software fixes unless the user specifically refuses to receive them”. Uh huh. “What we’re finding now is… customers wanting to stay up to date with security patches, and, most importantly,... full entry
- Artificial Diamonds
- We’ve had artificial diamonds for decades now. They’re used on saw blades, sandpaper, and tons of other applications. But they aren’t “pure” and they can be easily distinguished from natural diamonds. Until now, that is. Apparently, two companies are now both independently to the point... full entry
- An Episcopal Muslim Bishop?
- Yeah, I’m just confused here. It appears that the Episcopal church recently approved the first openly-Muslim bishop. A spokesman for the Episcopal Church said the move demonstrates, “Our church is open to all people, regardless of their beliefs, or whether they accept the teachings of... full entry
July 2003
- The… Nicotini??
- Oh my… what in the world will people think of next? In an effort to help smokers cope with the new smoke-free environment dicated in Florida, one nightclub is now offering a nicotine-laced drink, the Nicotini. “Soak tobacco leaves in vodka overnight, deaden the juice’s... full entry
- Don’t Wear a Button!
- I’m not a political person. In fact, I pretty much hate politics and avoid the whole subject whenever possible. And, in fact, this really isn’t about politics. Whatever. John Gillmore, who’s fairly well-known in the online/weblogging community was recently removed from a plane. “For what?”,... full entry
- Mozilla Takes Off On Its Own
- That post about the Browser Wars yesterday now seems rather prescient… Word comes in now that Mozilla and :AOL: have officially broken ties. Mozilla has now established the Mozilla Foundation, which will be more of a coordinating body for the development of the Mozilla platform.... full entry
- U.S. Keeper Joining Man U.
- It’s official. Manchester United has signed Tim Howard, a U.S. goalkeeper. Howard played with MLS’s MetroStars and has also made nine appearances with the U.S. national team. It’s great to see this happening since it lends even more credibility to the U.S. soccer program, which... full entry
- I’ll Make the Sacrifice
- Keira Knightley, star of the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie apparently never gets hit on while on the set. Well, I guess if I have to, I can make the supreme sacrifice of going out with her. And no, I don’t care if she... full entry
- Indiana Jones 4: July 2005?
- According to an interview between Cinescape and Steven Spielberg, the long-awaited Indiana Jones 4 should begin shooting around May 2004 and be released “probably the July 4th weekend of 2005”. Sure, it’s a long time to wait, but I have no doubts it will be... full entry
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