Monthly Archives: August 2006

A Working Economy Without DRM?

August 30, 2006 | Leave a comment
I’ve been won­der­ing what the future will hold for the music indus­try. Obvi­ously, file shar­ing is uncon­tro­lable. You can’t sue your cus­tomers for very long till some­body steals them from you. iTunes is a good start, but if you’ve ever tried to move your music from your old com­puter to a new one, you know it’s [...]
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Mythbusters Answers

August 27, 2006 | Leave a comment
You know it’s hap­pened: you got to watch the first 15 min­utes of a Myth­busters show and then had to leave, change the chan­nel, or some­thing else more tragic. You never found out if the myth was true or busted.… Won­der no longer. Here’s the Unof­fi­cial Myth­busters Guide, which has descrip­tions of (all?) the episodes [...]
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FreeDerekWebb.com

August 27, 2006 | Leave a comment
They tell me this site con­tains con­tent telling the world that the new Derek Webb cd is going to be released for free online. I couldn’t tell you–it either ren­ders wrong in Opera or.….strike that. Through a ran­dom assort­ment of but­ton push­ing (seri­ously, it was ran­dom), I got the flash image to show up. Bor­ing. Don’t [...]
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daveferguson.org: U2’s Bono On Celebrity, Jesus, Africa and More

August 27, 2006 | Leave a comment
This one’s for Derek: here’s a list of quotes from Bill Hybels’s inter­view w/ Bono at a Wil­low Creek con­fer­ence. The emo kid in me says he’s too cool for me to care about. So I don’t, hehehe. But it seemed like some­thing some of you would want to read.
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The Official Religion of The Language Log

August 21, 2006 | Leave a comment
That’s a overly-grandiose, and highly exag­ger­ated title that no one except the most RSS-enabled will ever read. And now the real post: There’s an inter­est­ing arti­cle on the Lan­guage Log about the “sort of sec­u­lar reli­gion” that is the “Anglo-Austrian Tri­bunal of Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Empir­i­cal Justice”.” In other words, the reli­gion that is the sci­en­tific method. I don’t [...]
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from Wishing For Fiction

August 17, 2006 | Leave a comment
Talk about a great one-liner: “On Bukowski’s birth­day she reminds me of how sat­is­fy­ing my shal­low ten­den­cies are.…”
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Bono Fatigue

August 17, 2006 | Leave a comment
Ok, this is funny: Bono Fatigue. Thank you, Opus.
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Jake.Tolberts.Net

August 17, 2006 | Leave a comment
Jake.Tolberts.Net is offi­cially up and run­ning. It’s noth­ing spe­cial. And it could still use a layer of pretty applied to it. But it’s work­ing now. Now I just need to get peo­ple to look at it so I can gets me a joearb.
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Things I Don’t Understand

August 17, 2006 | Leave a comment
Why the Head Librar­ian of the State of Illi­nois (also known as the Sec­re­tary of State) is a freakin’ Nazi about get­ting a library card. You MUST have two unopened pieces of mail to get one. No excep­tions. No bills that have your new address on them. No let­ters. Mail. Unopened. Post­marked. No books for you! [...]
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The Perfect Job

August 15, 2006 | Leave a comment
Maybe that’s a bit mis­lead­ing of a title. Here’s a bit of a job descrip­tion from some­thing for the Cham­paign Park district: “Phys­i­o­log­i­cal Con­sid­er­a­tions? Must be able to endure rig­or­ous meet­ing sched­ules dur­ing peak pro­gram­ming sea­sons.? Must be able to work in excess of 40 hours per week? Must be able to work some evenings [...]
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