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Victory Records Spotlight: Chicago’s Victory Records was championing the independent spirit long before emo became a mainstream musical genre. 1. A Decade Under The Influence (album Version) (Single Version) - Taking Back Sunday 2. Ohio Is For Lovers - Hawthorne Heights 3. Understanding In A Car Crash - Thursday 4. The Tension And The Terror - Straylight Run 5. Do You Mind? - The Junior Varsity 6. Goodmornin’ Da - The Tossers 7. Youth Explosion - Madcap 8. Everything Went Numb - Streetlight Manifesto 9. Speak Up - June 10. I Loved The Way She Said L.a. - Spitalfield 11. Sleep Tight Tonight - The Forecast 12. Tuesday - The Hurt Process 13. Niki FM - Hawthorne Heights 14. Windows (Single Version) - Snapcase 15. Negative Infinity - Freya

The album of the week is William Orbit’s Hello Waveforms.

Nice story on NPR yesterday about encrypting your email. I think most people assume that their email is at least somewhat private and don’t realize how many people potentially have access to the text of their email as it makes its way accross the net.

The Indelible Spirit of Mardi Gras: In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the people of New Orleans come together to celebrate Mardi Gras like never before. 1. Mardi Gras In New Orleans - The Dirty Dozen Brass Band 2. Fire On The Bayou - Neville Brothers 3. Tipitina - Professor Longhair 4. Yes We Can Can - Allen Toussaint 5. Hot Tamale Baby - Buckwheat Zydeco 6. Hip Shakin’ Mama - Irma Thomas 7. Junco Partner - James Booker 8. Chee Koo Baby - Lloyd Price 9. Rollin Stone - Zigaboo Modeliste 10. Tipitina - Bo Dollis & The Wild Magnolias 11. Hometown New Orleans - Champion Jack Dupree 12. Sugar Bee - Chavis, Boozoo 13. Squeeze Box Boogie - Clifton Chenier 14. Story Of My Life - Guitar Slim 15. L’Ouragon - Beausoleil 16. Boozoo’s Theme Song - Boozoo Chavis 17. Jambalaya (On The Bayou) - Tuts Washington

The album of the week is Arab Strap’s Last Romance.

Davyd Madeley has done his usual sneak peek at new features and improvements in the upcoming GNOME release, 2.14.

NewsForge has a very positive review of Chandler, the open source, cross-platform email/calendaring program. Chandler is still at the prerelease stage and really only does calendaring so far, but it is looking more and more promising with every release.

Smoking Gun has the official police report on the Cheney shooting. I love that there’s a Captain Kirk in the Kenedy County Sheriff’s Department.

37signals have launched their latest web app, Campfire. It’s a chat application with transcripts and easy file sharing targetted at businesses. As usual, the design is impeccable. I can’t say I will have much use for it but I suppose it would be great for distributed teams.

It’s Getting Hot In Here: A steamy set of provocative songs to get you in the mood for Valentine’s Day. 1. I’m Gonna Love You Just A Little More, Baby - Barry White 2. Let’s Get It On - Marvin Gaye 3. Lady - D’Angelo 4. Please Love Me - Ike & Tina Turner 5. I Love You More Than Words Can Say - Otis Redding 6. Tonight’s The Night (Gonna Be Alright) - Rod Stewart 7. Behind Closed Doors - Charlie Rich 8. She’s The One - Robbie Williams 9. I Just Want To Make Love To You - Lou Rawls 10. Slow Hand - The Pointer Sisters 11. Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’ - Journey 12. Make It With You - Bread 13. Lay Lady Lay - Bob Dylan 14. Kiss You All Over - Exile 15. When A Man Loves A Woman - Percy Sledge 16. Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me - Gladys Knight & The Pips 17. Between The Sheets - The Isley Brothers 18. Something He Can Feel - Aretha Franklin 19. Rub You The Right Way - (Radio Edit) - Johnny Gill 20. You Sexy Thing - Hot Chocolate 21. Hot Blooded - Foreigner 22. Romeo’s Tune - Steve Forbert

Dr. Dean Ornish has a response in Reader’s Digest to the recent Women’s Health Initiative study that found only weak positive health benefits from a low-fat diet.

The album of the week is Belle and Sebastian’s The Life Pursuit.

New England weatherman Todd Gross was fired from his job as Chief Meteorologist at WHDH in Boston last December. Now Gross has gone independent and started an awesome weather blog with a podcast of his MP3 forecasts and a for-pay email and cell phone weather update service.

2006 Grammy Winners: Mariah finally won another Grammy (after 16 years!), but U2 emerged as the night’s biggest champion with five awards. 1. Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own - U2 2. Boulevard Of Broken Dreams (Single/Album Version) - Green Day 3. We Belong Together - Mariah Carey 4. Diamonds From Sierra Leone - Kanye West 5. From the Bottom of My Heart - Stevie Wonder 6. So Amazing - Beyonce 7. Since U Been Gone - Kelly Clarkson 8. Devils & Dust - Bruce Springsteen 9. The Connection (LP Version) - Emmylou Harris 10. A House Is Not A Home - Aretha Franklin 11. Don’t Phunk With My Heart - Black Eyed Peas 12. Feel Good Inc. - Gorillaz 13. Galvanize - The Chemical Brothers 14. B.Y.O.B. - System Of A Down 15. Numb/Encore (Explicit) - Jay-Z/Linkin Park 16. Ordinary People - John Legend 17. Bless The Broken Road - Rascal Flatts 18. Restless - Alison Krauss 19. City Of Blinding Lights - U2 20. You’ll Think Of Me - Keith Urban 21. Like We Never Loved At All - Faith Hill 22. Caravan - Les Paul

The price of a virus-free Windows box: $49.95 per year. The price of a virus-free Linux box: $0.00 per year.

Sorry, couldn’t resist.