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I, for one, would like to commend Real for adopting the “tactics and ethics of a hacker.”

Steve Jackson Games has a nice collection of Illuminati and other fun themed desktop wallpapers.

There’s a trailer for the Hitchhiker’s movie but it’s been slashdotted. Instead, you can listen to the preview of the new radio series. Update: There’s a torrent of the trailer.

The new Zatoichi movie opened this weekend. It gets to Boston on August 6th. Hmm, and they misspelled Zatoichi in the web site title.

You can order the new Future Soundtrack for America benefit album by making a $25 donation to MoveOn. The line-up is amazing: Blink-182, Bright Eyes, David Byrne, Laura Cantrell, Clem Snide, Death Cab for Cutie, Mike Doughty, The Flaming Lips, Fountains of Wayne, Jimmy Eat World, Ben Kweller, The Long Winters, Nada Surf, OK Go, Old 97’s, R.E.M., Sleater-Kinney, They Might Be Giants, Tom Waits, will.i.am of The Black Eyed Peas, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Elliott Smith.

Steve Jackson Games is reprinting the Principia Discordia.

The album of the week is the Fiery Furnaces’ Blueberry Boat.

Über Goober, it looks like Trekkies for gamers. I might have to buy this if it doesn’t show up on Netflix.

Sun’s Jonathon Schwartz has a silly post about why people should buy Solaris. He claims that Red Hat co-opted the open-source “societal movement” on which Sun was founded (”They’re not the real open-source company, we are! sniffle“). He claims they’ll be an open-source Solaris coming but from this article it sounds like it will be Java-style not-actually-open-source. So no real embrace of open-source, no real embrace of Linux, and Sun’s bold new strategy for recovering from their downward spiral is… keep doing what they’ve been doing. I’m glad I’m not a Sun investor. [via rc3]

Oops, forgot about the album of the week last week. As predicted, it was the Polyphonic Spree’s Together We’re Heavy. This week’s album coming soon.

John Dvorak has started a WordPress-powerered blog.

After some troubles getting access to Blogger, Joe is posting updates on his trip to China.

Here’s a cool photo gallery of pictures from Robert Pirsig’s 1968 roadtrip on which he based Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. [via Futurismic]

Awesome, Jeremy Zawodny made the mysql command-line client behave like a Unix shell.

They Might Be Giants’ new album, The Spine, has arrived at their download store.