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Heh, according to myelin’s blogging ecosystem, I’m linked more than useit. Hah! Take that Jakob!

Wow, as a former spacegeek (with the encouragement of my elementary school librarian, I used to write regularly to NASA to request information packets and literature on the space program), this Man Conquers Space really hits home… The teaser movie is great – the music, the footage, the completely authentic diagrams. Who woulda known that this would be our future. Well things could certainly be worse… somehow. I’m sure we’ll find out in the news tomorrow.

More great stuff at boingboing today, but your probably already knew that. (since you click there every 10 minutes because it’s so damn awesome, right?)

Also from the NYT: a very positive G35 review. So pretty. The G35 is the American version of the Skyline. More info:http://www.infinitig35.net/.

Woo! LCD Price War! 23″ Flat screens for everyone!

The latest in a long line of badass Shynola videos: Junior/Senior – Move Your Feet

Who Owns Even Brown’s Brain? – This Register article summarizes the ongoing case of DSC Communications, Inc. vs. Evan Brown. Part of me wants to say, well, be careful of what you sign, or you’re going to get screwed, but another part of me screams out that this is ridiculous regardless of what was signed…

How to Monetize(tm) your browser – awesome ideas courtesy of hyatt, supergenius.

Madhu “MadMan” Menon’s Weblog: Avoiding personal conflict on mailing lists:

2. Avoid sarcasm. Cultural and individual sensitivity to sarcasm varies from person to person. Forget that silly quote about sarcasm being the highest form of wit. Remember that mailing lists can have people from all over the world. Respect their culture too.

Translation: Avoid sarcasm because there are so many stupid people on mailing lists.

Sarcasm? What’s that?

Gizmodo – the gadget weblog

Winamp 3 is out. Hopefully it’s better baked than the pre-betas, but something gives me the feeling that it’s not. Well, there’s always Winamp 2.

More: Winamp3 faqs, backwards plugin compatibility: general/dsp/api, api, input, vis coming soon from nullsoft.

Lots of linky love:

• The Warre of All Against All – Papua New Guinean history compared to a world ruled by the DMCA
• KCRW – I just joined. They have 128K Shoutcast Streams
• Blogs: AKMA’s Random Thoughts, The Communist Squirrel, CrustyGeek Musings
• The media titans still don’t get it – Scott Rosenberg writes a great piece on the true value of the Net.
• Yowza, I haven’t been paying attention to the whole Exxon/Indonesia thing. Pretty bad juju
• C.A.F.E. 2002 – a Benefit for EFF’s Campaign for Audio-Visual Free Expression; Wil Wheaton vs Barney in a boxing ring! Rock!
• Hmm, Microsoft Typographica was discontinued because “the downloads were being abused”? Couldn’t mod_rewrite or some mod_throttle policies solve that problem easily enough? Oh, that’s right…
• New NASA Hypersonic Flight Vehicles Coming Soon – Hmm, artists renditions of NASAs proposed Hyper-X test vehicles
• What Lessig Doesn’t Point Out – an interesting /. thread
• Danger: FAQ – You can send an email to apply for hiptop (T-Mobile Sidekick) developer info here
• Jalindi Igloo – plug CVS support into editors like xml spy, HomeSite, and Visual Studio
• TortoiseCVS – or plug CVS right into Explorer, now @ v1.0.0!
• Mozilla Related:
• Mozilla Footprint Projects
• Embedding Mozilla
• From DevEdge: XPInstall Guidelines for Plugin Installations

So, I’ve been feeling pretty good about putting the free_culture presentation up online. I mean, hey, it’s gotten about 20K hits in just a bit over a day. Not too shabby. I was thinking about it, though. A quick Google search shows that there are currently about 180 million people online in the USA/Canada. Compared to that, and the people who have seen this presentation is a tiny blip (most of which is already preaching to the choir in any case).

How can we get this out to more people? How can we expose this to the average AOL user? (carpet bomb cd’s of course, but how else?) Are good one page explanations online that can spread the word as effectively? I admit, I’m a latecomer in actually thinking about these issues, but I think there needs to be a more effective way to reach out and make this reach critical mass somehow. If anyone has ideas (to actually implement), let me know…