Boston Globe Online / Nation | World / His time to soar with U2 – definitely not healthy, but pretty damn awesome all the same.

speaking of live performances and unhealthiness, i was at the disneyland house of blues last night with some friends, one of the band’s was driving by braille, a local emoish type band, the killingtons, and the main act, stavesacre, this hxc band (now this is a fun subculture to explore) .

anyway, since i don’t get out enough, i don’t think i really have a frame of reference to really judge whether anyone was any good or not (that judgement really being a sorta domain specific and culture specific thing i guess). driving by braille sounds like what altrock is nowadays i guess. the killingtons came on right before stavesacre. some of their songs were really cool, and they had this progressive rock thing going, which was neat. also, they get bonus points for dedicating their last song to this pair of obnoxious assholes up front (stavesacre fans, apparently?) who were like heckling them for the whole set. anyway, as they lead into the song, the lead singer hocks this huge loogie on ’em, which up until that point was the funniest thing i saw that night.

<ramble>hmm, i guess i don’t want to be mean or cynical so i don’t know if i should say that seeing the very same audience members all having numinous epiphanies to stavesacre was funny or sad. actually, i this was one of the things i was bothered at the u2 show about… that there are these people who are sharing this experience, which is great, but still being assholes … and also i guess, something related that i don’t have anything against and not really bothered by, but i guess somewhat uneasy about once i realized it in myself, but in the temporariness of the transposition… there’s something false and illusionary about it all i guess. but that’s the way with everything i guess.</ramble>

anyway, from my perspective, stavesacre wasn’t all that. the mix was way too muddy for my tastes, so most of it just sounded like noise. about halfway through the set, they played a really great ballad, gold and silver, and then the song after it had some actual bass line movement which was nice. hmm, and then they lost me again for a while until the last two songs. but then again, i really don’t have a frame of reference, and judging from the crowd, i don’t seem to be part of the “target audience” anyway.

so, after some prodding for a friend, it looks like i’m gonna be up north on the weekend of june 16th. i don’t think i’ve ever been in san francisco before. looks like fun.

robgalbraith.com: Selecting a CompactFlash card for a photojournalist’s digital camera – this is a really interesting article for those interesting in compactflash, etc.

so, along the way i got slightly interested in the swordfish contest that wb has, where they’re giving away stuff. so, i took a look at the swordfish forums @ rottentomatoes. anyway, turns out that not all the keycodes are available so there’s no way to get the last keycode. no doubt there’ll be a new version they’ll post up after the movie comes out… also, i posted the pass.dat file so no one has to hunt for those stupid passwords. i’m sure that the url for the contest is embedded somewhere in the swf file, but i haven’t reinstalled my copy of ultraedit, and um, i guess honestly i could care less. heheh. ahh, the powers of procrastination.

sometimes there’s just a lot of good stuff on /.

EFF Files First Anti-DMCA Lawsuit

Intellectual Property and a Censored Slash Site?

Sheet Music to Napster: Music Distribution Tech

IPIX Shuts Down Free Software Developer – Again

EINUX SHIPS FIRST AMD™ DUAL ATHLON™ MP 1U RACKMOUNT SERVER

– comes w/ ultra 160 scsi, 2 3com 3c920 10/100 cards, support for up to 4gb ddr memory. pretty sweet. looks like a dual athlonmp 1.2ghz spanks a dual xeon4 1.7ghz. with that, and nvidia’s strategic partnership w/ amd, is there any question that chipzilla is gonna be up a creek? (more bad news, i845 is doa – oopsie)

AnandTech Forums – Gateway 6400 Server with SMP and Ultra160 SCSI for $599! – i think that about sums it up. this is a frickin great deal. um, if you needed a server that is. mmm, ultra 160 scsi…

ha, looks like the new trojan to worry about isn’t from sub7, but rather from the gov’t. interesting post on the front page:

The article [excerpt below] on how to remove DIRT is misleading. DIRT uses ‘unused’ space in the filesystem, so high level reformating will not destroy it. (This ‘unused’ space is used by operating systems to handle classified information with data structures similar to that in SE_Linux). Removing DIRT requires wiping the disk at the device driver level.” — Thanks to R.

Crypto-Gram — May 15, 2001 – The industry’s only solution is to accept the inevitable. Unrestricted distribution is a natural law of digital content, and those who figure out how to leverage that natural law will make money.

Slashdot | Companies Abandon The Sinking Ship That Is SDMI – the big one dropping out is lucky goldstar, the big one joining is ibm. hmm, for my part, i just bought a non-sdmi compliant mp3 player. that should be coming in the mail in a week if the usps doesn’t lose my shipment (seems like that’s what happened w/ an accessory for my cell phone). there seem to be some problems w/ the player, but overall it seems to be pretty cool. we’ll see how it works

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