Meg:

The horror of modern relationships isn’t the confusion about roles, reticence about marriage, or the lived-together-broke-up-who-originally-bought-the-Office Space DVD mystery, it’s the technology enabling you to keep in contact with an ex when all you want to do is purge them from your heart.

Howard’s BT headset roundup got me interested in the Nextlink Bluespoon Digital headset, it looks like one that might be convenient for those who wear glasses.

• Howard’s take on the Bluespoon Digital
• Mobile Burn review
• infoSync World Review
• Esato review

• people around me on friendster, 2003 – hand drawn, spidering (w/ source), Graphviz’d (via connected selves – Danah Boyd)
• Friendster Hack v3

sort of/not really related: foafnaut, SVG Textorizer Tool (more tools)

todo: JS image resizing behavior, automatically add a zoom in/out for each image done, see next day’s zoom posting

Nice (via Marc).

So, does he come w/ a spring-loaded AWOL action?

There’s not a lot of fully functional crawlers that will spider sites w/ JS links. I guess one could possibly write a Mozilla plug-in to do so?

• BlackWidow – allows plug-ins, possibly allowing spidering of JS generated links
• JPluck – spiders sites, converts to XML, can read Mozilla cookies.txt file

Stopping the pop-swappers

According to the RIAA, CD sales dropped by 10% in 2001 and a further 6.8% last year, largely because of file sharing.

But the figures tell a different story.

In America and the rest of the world the biggest culprit in falling music sales is large-scale CD piracy by organised crime.

In just three years, sales of pirate CDs have more than doubled, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI).

Every third CD sold is a pirate copy, says the federation.

The IFPI’s Commercial Music Piracy 2003 report, produced in early July, reveals pirate CD sales rose 14% in 2002 and exceeded one billion units for the first time.

MySQL AB Plans To Re-Brand SAP’s Open-Source Database: interesting

‘Survivor’ Meets Sitcom in Calif. (via Moon Farmer)

Consider the advertisement that began running in the Los Angeles Times today: “Want to be governor? If you are 99 years old, 99 Cents Only Stores will gladly pay your $3,499 filing fee and gather the signatures needed for our chosen candidate.”

Awesome.

A friend just sent me a link to a music video/ad spoof involving models and power tools. Curious as to where it came from, I did a google search on part of the url string, which turned up the answer, but also turned up the popdex reference. Cool.

Related: Mac Mania – yeah, I agree, this is a pretty damn scary awesome