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Monthly Archives: August 2005
Bruce Scneier on Trusted Computing and Windows Vista
Bruce Schneier has an interesting article about some odd maneuvering going on around the Trusted Computing Group’s best practices document and Windows Vista.
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2005 MTV Video Music Awards Winners
2005 MTV Video Music Awards Winners: The videos for these songs earned moonmen awards at MTV’s Miami ceremony, hosted by “Diddy” on August 28, 2005. 1. Boulevard Of Broken Dreams (Single/Album Version) – Green Day 2. Jesus Walks – Kanye … Continue reading
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Earth as you’ve never seen it
Please watch this breathtaking movie of one full rotation of Earth created from photos taken by NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft as it left after a fly by. [via jwz]
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Album of Last Week
The album of last week was New Pornographer’s Twin Cinema.
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Ones to Watch (August 2005)
Ones to Watch (August 2005): In this recurring feature, we present you with tracks by some of our favorite rising acts. 1. Gjort Bort Sig – Dungen 2. No Satisfaction – Black Mountain 3. Punches (Album Version) – World Leader … Continue reading
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Tim Bray on DRM
Tim Bray puts his finger on why DRM will fail, and, hey, he works for Sun: What all the DRM dreamers don’t want to admit is that 95% or more of the population hasn’t yet encountered DRM, and when they … Continue reading
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Kottke on the WebOS
Kottke outlines one scenario for the WebOS. I was skeptical his locally-running web server idea since it sounds like the worst of both worlds but after reading the whole piece I think it has a lot of potential.
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Sun’s Open DRM
Sun has launched an effort to create an open DRM standard and open sourced one of it’s DRM projects. I must be missing something but I don’t understand how an open source DRM system would protect content. If it’s open … Continue reading
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The Cash Money Millionaires
The Cash Money Millionaires: These guys are the biggest rap force out of New Orleans since Master P’s No Limit crew. 1. The DJ – Mannie Fresh 2. HA – Juvenile 3. What Happened To That Boy (featuring The Clipse) … Continue reading
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Toby Keith Selects
Toby Keith Selects: 1. Bloody Mary Morning – Willie Nelson 2. Uneasy Rider – The Charlie Daniels Band 3. Here You Come Again – Dolly Parton 4. Gentle On My Mind – Glen Campbell 5. Rainy Day Woman – Waylon … Continue reading
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Customers of new UK ISP get to share all Sony music on P2P
Wow: a UK ISP called Playlouder has gotten a license from SonyBMG that allows its customers to freely download and share any music from the SonyBMG catalog via P2P networks. This is huge news and we should all beg our … Continue reading
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Demand your TSA travel records
Here’s how to request the information that the Transportation Security Administration has collected about you using a Privacy Act request.
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Bush sneaks in vetoes under a veil of formality
It’s bizarre finding this on Science Blog: An article published in the latest issue of Presidential Studies Quarterly discusses how the Bush administration used a little-known policy tool of attaching presidential signing statements to bills to, in essence, veto them. … Continue reading
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Music store bangs the drum for free software
Ah, a story that combines my two favorite things: digital music and Free Software, how could I resist?
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Georges’ Sieve
Georges’ Sieve is a very concise piece of advice on technical writing. [via OSAF Blog]
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