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.”
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.
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 break.
nineteen ways to lose a customer:
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 marched off by police and had his luggage dumped on the tarmac.
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 of communications, said he didn’t think Winnipeg Mayor Sam Katz knew anything about War Plan Red: “You know he would have no clue about what you’re talking about, eh?”
“I’m sure Winnipeggers will stand up tall in defense of our country,” Mayor Katz said later. “We have many, many weapons.
“What kind of weapons?”
We have peashooters, slingshots and snowballs,” he said, laughing.
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: In-Progress Ideas for New Yorker Cartoons.
Time magazine’s best photos of 2005.
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 part of the interface.â€
