Monthly Archives: August 2004

Album of the Week

Posted on 8/26/2004 by Ben

The album of the week is Guided By Voices’ Half Smiles of the Decomposed.

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Flickr

Posted on 8/20/2004 by Ben

I’ve finally gotten around to checking out Flickr and it’s very promising. It actually has everything I’ve been looking for in a photo site. The one thing all of the others seemed to be missing was the ability to view … Continue reading →

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Grokster wins

Posted on 8/20/2004 by Ben

Grokster has defeated MGM’s appeal and peer-to-peer filesharing now has a bit more legal standing. EFF has a nice summary of the decision.

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Dungeons and Dragons Turns 30

Posted on 8/19/2004 by Ben

More Morning Edition: a nice segment on the 30th birthday of Dungeons & Dragons.

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Album of the Week

Posted on 8/18/2004 by Ben

The album of the week is Future Soundtrack for America. I recommend buying a copy to benefit MoveOn.

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Obesity and Income

Posted on 8/17/2004 by Ben

Morning Edition had a great segment today on the link between obesity and income.

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Album of the Week

Posted on 8/11/2004 by Ben

The album of the week is the Beta Band’s Heroes to Zeros.

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The Pixies Get Their Act Together

Posted on 8/11/2004 by Ben

NYTimes on the Pixies reunion tour. It wasn’t just the shows in smaller venues that sold so briskly; more than 50,000 tickets were snapped up for the Pixies’ day at the Coachella festival, and theaters around the United States have … Continue reading →

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Vegan in The Henhouse

Posted on 8/10/2004 by Ben

WashPost has a lengthy profile of the new head of the Humane Society of the United States who, much to his critics’ horror, actually believes in animal rights.

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Real People

Posted on 8/10/2004 by Ben

You can vote on MoveOn PAC’s Errol Morris-directed Real People anti-Bush ads. The winners will be run during the Republican National Convention.

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It’s Not So Hard to Switch to a Vegan Diet

Posted on 8/6/2004 by Ben

A new study finds that going vegan is easy. To investigate how people would cope with a switch to an all-vegan diet, Barnard and his team asked half of 64 overweight women to try a low-fat form of the diet … Continue reading →

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Norman Mailer and John Buffalo Mailer

Posted on 8/5/2004 by Ben

New York Metro has a conversation between Norman Mailer and his son, John Buffalo Mailer. The real story was in the faces. All those faces on the Bush team. What you saw was the spiritual emptiness of those people. Bush … Continue reading →

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Michael Tiemann on the role of Fedora

Posted on 8/4/2004 by Ben

Jon Udell has posted a good hunk of Red Hat VP Michael Tiemann’s talk at OSCON on the future of Fedora. This makes me feel even better about Fedora. Red Hat seems to have gotten just about everything right with … Continue reading →

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Album of the Week

Posted on 8/4/2004 by Ben

The album of the week is The Orb’s Bicycles & Tricycles.

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HP Linux Laptop

Posted on 8/3/2004 by Ben

HP is shipping laptops pre-loaded with SUSE Linux 9.1. Go HP!

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