Cory Doctorow has a great op-ed in The Toronto Star about the harm done by bad copyright laws. There’s sizzle with this steak, too: Musicians want to be remembered as “the guy who wrote the song you lost your virginity to,” not “the guy who wrote the song you lost your hard drive to.”
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guy’s new blog
I ran into Guy Kawasaki at Macworld on Monday. He has a new blog. It’s got some material from his books mixed with commentary on current tech events. I liked the “10 lies” pieces.
redefining “podcast”
From 37signals: Creative tries to redefine “Podcast”: Can you hear it? Can you hear that whirring sound? That’s the spin over at Creative ZENcast. According to them… Podcasts, short for Personal On Demand broadCast, are audio files you can download into any MP3 player or computer. A for effort, F for give me a fucking …
how to piss off your customers
nineteen ways to lose a customer: accuse them of stealing make fun of their names (+7 more) hide your product (+9 more)
pilot dumps drunk man on island
don’t piss off monarch air: The unidentified man swore at crew and passengers after being refused a bottle of wine on the four-hour flight from Manchester to Tenerife. He became so abusive the fed-up pilot diverted the Monarch Airlines Airbus to Porto Santo island off West Africa. After the plane touched down, the man was …
war plan red
Back in the day, the United States drew up plans to go to war with Canada. Long since declassified, the plans were dragged out for humourous effect by the Washington Post. Out in Winnipeg — the Manitoba capital, whose rail yards were slated to be seized in the plan — Brad Salyn, the city’s director …
In-Progress Ideas for New Yorker Cartoons
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: In-Progress Ideas for New Yorker Cartoons.
time’s best photos of 2005
Time magazine’s best photos of 2005.
Bill Gates’ predictions about speech recognition
Bill Gates’ predictions about speech recognition: a historical review Bill Gates, 1 October 1997: “In this 10-year time frame, I believe that we’ll not only be using the keyboard and the mouse to interact, but during that time we will have perfected speech recognition and speech output well enough that those will become a standard …
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