If You Don’t Believe in DRM, It Can’t Hurt You

Don Marti brilliantly explains in LinuxJournal why making and using DRM software is bad business.

Posted in Copyfight, Linux | Leave a comment

Kelly Osbourne Selects

Kelly Osbourne Selects: Though she was a wee lass in the ’80s, Ozzy’s little girl proves to have a fondness for the sounds of that era. 1. Autobahn – Kraftwerk 2. Super Freak – Rick James 3. Suicide Solution – Ozzy Osbourne 4. Mary – Scissor Sisters 5. Planet Earth – Duran Duran 6. The Metro – Berlin 7. Pretty In Pink – The Psychedelic Furs 8. Holiday – Green Day 9. Banquet – Bloc Party 10. I Should Be So Lucky – Kylie Minogue 11. Connection – Elastica 12. The Sign – Ace Of Base 13. Never Ending Story – Kajagoogoo And Limahl 14. One Word (Album Version) – Kelly Osbourne 15. Strangelove – Depeche Mode 16. Tainted Love – Soft Cell 17. Just Like Heaven – The Cure 18. Girls & Boys – Blur 19. Rapture – Blondie 20. You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) – Dead Or Alive 21. Do You Really Want To Hurt Me – Culture Club 22. Walking In L.A. – Missing Persons 23. Apart – Elkland 24. Feel Good Inc. – Gorillaz 25. Time After Time – Cyndi Lauper 26. Photograph – Def Leppard 27. I Touch Myself – Divinyls 28. Walking On Broken Glass – Annie Lennox 29. Deceptacon – Le Tigre 30. Mega Colon – Fischerspooner 31. Tiny Dancer – Elton John 32. Total Eclipse Of The Heart – Bonnie Tyler 33. Satellite Of Love – Lou Reed 34. What’s Up – 4 Non Blondes 35. The Sound Of The Crowd – Human League

Posted in Rhapsody Featured Mix | Leave a comment

Holmes Wilson Interview

Steve Garfield has a video interview with Holmes Wilson of Downhill Battle and Participatory Culture Foundation. They talk about Broadcast Machine and DTV, which make up PCF’s Internet TV system.

Posted in Computers and Internet, Copyfight | Leave a comment

God Bless the White Stripes: In honor of the release of Get Behind Me, Satan, we’re proud to present new tracks mixed with older faves. 1. My Doorbell – The White Stripes 2. The Hardest Button To Button – The White Stripes 3. Astro – The White Stripes 4. Blue Orchid – The White Stripes 5. Black Math – The White Stripes 6. The Denial Twist – The White Stripes 7. Hello Operator – The White Stripes 8. Girl, You Have No Faith In Medicine – The White Stripes 9. Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground – The White Stripes 10. Sugar Never Tasted So Good – The White Stripes 11. Little Ghost – The White Stripes 12. Hotel Yorba – The White Stripes 13. Little Bird – The White Stripes 14. Stop Breaking Down – The White Stripes 15. Death Letter – The White Stripes

Posted in Rhapsody Featured Mix | Leave a comment

Album of the Week

The album of the week is Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.

Posted in Rhapsody | Leave a comment

U.S. Health Department Signs Major Linux Deal With Novell

Novell gets a big deal with the Department of Health and Human Services.

The contract provides unlimited use of Novell products to about 70,000 at HHS, including about 30,000 NIH users. Under the arrangement Novell is providing to HHS “unlimited access, upgrade protection and technical support” for products, including SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Novell Open Enterprise Server, Novell Linux Desktop, patch management, and a range of identity-based services for management, integration and security.

Posted in Free Software, Linux | Leave a comment

Red Hat Creates Fedora Foundation

Red Hat is creating the Fedora Foundation and handing management of the Fedora Project over to it.

Posted in Free Software, Linux | Leave a comment

Lo-Fi Rock Block

Lo-Fi Rock Block: Check out these minimal gems that prove the old adage about “less is more.” 1. Poptunes – Daniel Johnston 2. Baptist Blacktick – Pavement 3. Bird Stealing Bread – Iron And Wine 4. Tractor Rape Chain – Guided By Voices 5. Love Defined – Daniel Johnston 6. A Baby For Pree – Neutral Milk Hotel 7. Soul And Fire – Sebadoh 8. Foggy Eyes – Beat Happening 9. The Moon – Microphones 10. My Pal Foot Foot – The Shaggs 11. 37 Pushups – Smog 12. Space Oddity – The Langley Schools Music Project 13. Poughkeepsi – Devendra Banhart 14. Nice Of Me – Danielson Family 15. Jorge Regula – The Moldy Peaches

Posted in Rhapsody Featured Mix | Leave a comment

Webolodeon

Danny O’Brien’s Webolodeon Greasemonkey script forces you to explain why you’re surfing the web every five minutes. This will either double my productivity or annoy the hell out of me and get turned off in a couple more minutes.

Posted in Computers and Internet, Productivity | Leave a comment

Identity of ‘Deep Throat’ Source Revealed

So Deep Throat was W. Mark Felt, the number two spook at the FBI at the time. I always kind of hoped it was Pat Buchanan.

Posted in Politics | 1 Comment

25 Classic Cuts From 25 Great Live Albums

25 Classic Cuts From 25 Great Live Albums: It isn’t easy capturing the energy of a great live show — here’s 25 tunes that do. 1. Lonely Town, Lonely Street – Bill Withers 2. Folsom Prison Blues – Johnny Cash 3. The Magic Bus – The Who 4. Night They Drove Old Dixie Down – The Band 5. Polk Salad Annie – Elvis Presley 6. The ‘In’ Crowd – Ramsey Lewis 7. Life During Wartime – Talking Heads 8. It’s Hard To Be A Saint In The City – Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band 9. Surrender – Cheap Trick 10. Diminuendo In Blue And Crescendo In Blue – (live) – Duke Ellington 11. Solitary Man – Neil Diamond 12. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) – Marvin Gaye 13. Stray Cat Blues – The Rolling Stones 14. Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door – Bob Dylan/The Band 15. The Monkey Thing – Rahsaan Roland Kirk 16. Little Richard Medley: Tutti-Frutti / The Girl Can’t Help It / Long Tall Sally / Jenny Jenny – Delaney & Bonnie 17. Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home – Sammy Davis, Jr 18. Jailbreak – Thin Lizzy 19. I’ll Go Crazy – James Brown 20. Looks Like Rain – Grateful Dead 21. Baby, What You Want Me To Do? – Etta James 22. Breaking glass – David Bowie 23. Lake Marie – John Prine 24. My My, Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue) – Neil Young & Crazy Horse 25. Gloria – Van Morrison

Posted in Rhapsody Featured Mix | Leave a comment

Album of the Week

I missed the album of the week last week so I’ve got two for you today: Gorillaz’ Demon Days and Kaiser Chiefs’ Employment.

Posted in Rhapsody | Leave a comment

Eleven steps to a better brain

New Scientist has an excellent article about how to promote brain health and power through diet and exercise (mental and physical).

Posted in Health | Leave a comment

BitTorrent Search

I should mention the new BitTorrent search engine launched by BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen. It’s the nicest and fastest BitTorrent search engine out there. I think this can only mean that Bram wants to get sued, but thinks he can win.

Posted in Computers and Internet, Copyfight | Leave a comment

The long tail of software

Excite and Jotspot founder Joe Kraus has an interesting post about how the long tail applies to software and how Jotspot fits into that vision. Short version: Jotspot is a platform for building custom applications and therefore services a large portion of the long tail.

Posted in Computers and Internet, Programming | Leave a comment