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Neil Young’s Rebel Rock: Check out controversial cuts from Neil Young. 1. Let’s Impeach The President - Neil Young 2. Restless Consumer - Neil Young 3. Rockin’ In The Free World (Live Acoustic) - Neil Young 4. After The Garden - Neil Young 5. Helpless - Neil Young 6. Cortez The Killer - Neil Young/Crazy Horse 7. Birds - Neil Young 8. Flags of Freedom - Neil Young 9. Running Dry (Requiem For The Rockets) - Neil Young With Crazy Horse 10. Crime In The City (Sixty To Zero Part 1) - Neil Young 11. Cinnamon Girl - Neil Young With Crazy Horse 12. There’s A World - Neil Young 13. Looking For A Leader - Neil Young 14. Lookout Joe - Neil Young 15. Falling Off Of The Face Of The Earth - Neil Young 16. Silver & Gold - Neil Young 17. After The Gold Rush - Neil Young 18. America The Beautiful - Neil Young

Over on Don Marti’s blog I’m being educated on how hardware vendors can get Linux drivers written, accepted into the kernel, and distributed to users in time for product releases. Don and kernel hacker Greg Kroah-Hartman are participating in FreedomHEC next month to teach vendors about the process.

Samba creator takes stand in Microsoft case

Once a year, he said, top software programmers from rival software companies from around the world gather at the DoubleTree Hotel in San Jose, California, for what they term a “plugfest.”

The engineers bring computers and the software programs they are working on and literally plug them together to see how their programs interoperate. “We work around the clock for a week. We torture our machines in the pursuit of interoperability,” he told a rapt courtroom.

“Can you do this test with Microsoft?” Judge Cooke asked.

“Yes, but they don’t turn up,” Tridgell said.

Microsoft exec calls for calm on OSS site

But instead of playing the “hate Microsoft for being Microsoft” game, Parris cited a real-world example for his mistrust: In the late 1990s Microsoft threatened to pull Windows from the Republic of Korea if it was found guilty of antitrust allegations presented against it at the time. “Even when I call Microsoft an ‘economic terrorist’ [in a recent LXer.com column] I don’t hate Microsoft. But I do hate its unethical conduct,” he said.

That was a while ago, but open source devotees have long memories. And even with Hilf presented as a friendly face for open source, Parris said he believed it was all for naught because of the executives positioned above him in the Microsoft pecking order.

“It’s a top-down problem, and if that doesn’t change, then anything else they do is just shooting in the wind,” he said. “Bill Hilf could be a great person with a sincere love for OSS and Linux, but the people he works for conduct themselves in an unethical manner.”

The album of the week is Neil Young’s Living With War. The Jazz lovers should also check out the excellent Legends of Jazz with Ramsey Lewis Showcase from the PBS series of the same name.

The EFF is sending a petition to Congress to stop the RIAA lawsuits. Go sign it.

Barry Manilow’s Favorites: Take a peak at Barry’s favorite albums; Dirty Vegas mingling with Elton John and Chet Baker. 1. Over The Rainbow - Judy Garland 2. Baby - Bebel Gilberto 3. She Was Good To Me - Chet Baker 4. Baby Plays Around - Curtis Stigers 5. Dirty Epic - Underworld 6. Days Go By - Dirty Vegas 7. Inside My Mind (Blue Skies) - Groove Armada 8. Stoned Soul Picnic - Laura Nyro 9. Your Song - Elton John 10. My Foolish Heart - Bill Evans 11. Devil May Care - Diana Krall 12. When October Goes - Barry Manilow 13. Something To Talk About - Bonnie Raitt 14. Bernie’s Tune - Chet Baker & Stan Getz 15. There’s A Small Hotel - Diana Ross and the Supremes 16. That Old Feeling - Gerry Mulligan

Ben Hammersley has shut down the Lazyweb after the plague of trackback spam became too much. I’ve been pretty annoyed by the spam their recently, too. I hope he will look into Akismet or transfer the domain to someone willing to run the service.

Is Lost a Repeat? deserves some kind of web usability award.

Wow, I think I need to go to this. It will either be fantastic or terrible.

The album of the week is the new Daniel Johnston best of Welcome To My World. Johnston is on a role with a documentary about his life out now, too. My favorite Johnston oddity is this recording of a radio call-in show with Yo La Tengo where Johnston calls in and sings Speeding Motorcycle with the band.

2006 Latin Music Conference: The schmoozy Latin Billboard Conference culminates in a predictable awards show — but at least the music’s good! 1. La Camisa Negra - Juanes 2. Rakata - Wisin & Yandel 3. La Tortura (Alternate Version) - Shakira 4. Obsession (No Es Amor) - Frankie J feat. Baby Bash 5. Nada Es Para Siempre - Luis Fonsi 6. Porque Es Tan Cruel El Amor - Ricardo Arjona 7. Amor del Bueno - Reyli Barba 8. Víveme - Laura Pausini 9. Bandolero - Olga Tanon 10. Algo Esta Cambiando - Julieta Venegas 11. Yo Quisiera - Reik 12. Tu Amor Me Hace Bien - Marc Anthony 13. Resistire - Tono Rosario 14. Tu Eres - Brenda K. Starr 15. Ya Me Habian Dicho - Lupillo Rivera 16. Hoy Como Ayer - Conjunto Primavera 17. El Sol No Regresa - Diana Reyes 18. Fruta Prohibida - Los Elegidos 19. Lo Que Paso, Paso - Daddy Yankee 20. La Gorda Linda - Arthur Hanlon

Shaking All Over: April 18, 2006 marks the 100 year anniversary of San Francisco’s greatest natural disaster: the 1906 earthquake. 1. Whole Lotta Shakin’ Going On - Jerry Lee Lewis 2. Crumblin’ Down - John Mellencamp 3. San Francisco Nights - The Animals 4. Shakin’ All Over - The Swinging Blue Jeans 5. We Built This City - Starship 6. Earthquake - Chixdiggit 7. Shakin’ Street - MC5 8. California Earthquake - Cass Elliot 9. Lights - Journey 10. San Francisco (Wear Some Flowers In Your Hair) - Scott McKenzie 11. Burnin’ For You - Blue Oyster Cult 12. Rockin Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu - Dr. John 13. Earthquake Weather - Kristian Hoffman 14. Quake Song - Built Like Alaska 15. Fall Down - The Boomtown Rats 16. Earthquake - Dice 17. San Francisco, (I Left My Heart In) - Tony Bennett 18. Burn It Down - Even The Odd 19. Rubble - Velocity Girl 20. Earthquake - The Upsetters 21. Shakin’ - Eddie Money 22. Earthquake Blues - Lida Husik 23. San Francisco Days - Chris Isaak 24. San Francisco Bay Blues - Richie Havens 25. 100 Years - Blues Traveler

Easter Celebration: 1. Peter Cottontail - Gene Autry 2. April Come She Will - Simon and Garfunkel 3. Easter Parade - Sarah Vaughan/Billy Eckstine 4. Up Jumped Spring - Abbey Lincoln/Stan Getz 5. April In Paris - Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong 6. Easter Parade - The Real Tuesday Weld 7. April Showers - Arthur Prysock 8. Brand New Day - Van Morrison 9. Easter Bunny Boogie (previously unreleased) - William Clarke 10. Sweet Kentucky Ham - Rosemary Clooney 11. Resurrection - Spear Of Destiny 12. White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane 13. I’m the Easter Bunny - Dr. Elmo 14. The Start Of Forever - Paul Weller 15. Rebirth - Stefon Harris

The album of last week was the Eagles of Death Metal’s Death By Sexy.