Monthly Archives: February 2008

Amazon MP3 Downloader for Linux

Posted on 2/29/2008 by Ben

Amazon MP3 now has a Linux version of their album downloader. It’s annoying (and puzzling) that music stores force you to use these proprietary downloaders instead of just pushing you the files in a zip or something, but at least … Continue reading →

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Album of the Week

Posted on 2/29/2008 by Ben

The album of the week is Goldfrapp’s Seventh Tree.

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Ubuntu Brainstorm

Posted on 2/28/2008 by Ben

Ubuntu has launched Brainstorm, a Dell Ideastorm-like site where you can post Ubuntu feature requests and vote them up and down.

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Mozilla Messaging

Posted on 2/19/2008 by Ben

The new Mozilla organization dedicated to developing Thunderbird, Mozilla Messaging, has launched. They will also be developing Lightning, Sunbird, and an IM client, which is all very exciting. I’m using Lightning as my calendar at work now and it is … Continue reading →

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Yahoo! Music Unlimited No More

Posted on 2/8/2008 by Ben

Yahoo! is planning to shut down its Yahoo! Music Unlimited service and redirect it’s users to Rhapsody. It’s sad to see less competition in the streaming music space, I think competition from Yahoo! drove some of the recent improvements to … Continue reading →

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Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler

Posted on 2/4/2008 by Ben

NYTimes covers meat consumption and greenhouse gases. Growing meat (it’s hard to use the word “raising” when applied to animals in factory farms) uses so many resources that it’s a challenge to enumerate them all. But consider: an estimated 30 … Continue reading →

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Album of the Week

Posted on 2/1/2008 by Ben

Vampire Weekend is very nice but the Mars Volta are blowing my mind with The Bedlam in Goliath.

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Yahoo and Microsoft

Posted on 2/1/2008 by Ben

Many people have pointed out that the scary thing about Microsoft potentially buying Yahoo is that Yahoo owns many important web sites (Flickr, del.icio.us, upcoming.org, etc.) and supports many important open source projects (PHP, FreeBSD, YUI, Hadoop, Squid, etc.) I’m … Continue reading →

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