Shelley writes on the Semantic Web for Poets
What do we think of new Firebird Icon – thread has some good alternatives as well. (see also: Phoenix Icons (preview)
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
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.
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.