there are some good photos at yahoo new’s most emailed content.
bye bye standard model?
surprise, surprise, despite what the latimes said about the surgeon general’s report on violence and video games, turns out that was total bunk. the surgeon general’s report actually says the exact opposite: violence in computer games and other media has little do with making america’s youth more violent themselves.
philippe kahn is working w/ motorola on wireless image transmission, and embedding a sugar cube-sized camera called Digital Eye into cell phones – could be very useful… hopefully it’ll have a good inteface. you have to wonder, how useful is the traditional cell form factor w/ a camera in it though?
jason lanier talks about napster and the law of the excluded digital middle: Digital tools can be either open or closed but resist being anything in between.
whoa, htf does this happen? 7,000ton la class sub uss greenville sinks a japanese fishing boat near hawaii while surfacing. that’s horrible. not to mention that students and teachers were on that boat…
btw, looks like some guys are on a k10k kick at cnn 😉
here’s a discussion on how to detect and eliminate xing encoded mp3s. the title is great: Program to delete Xing encoded mp3s?
also here’s a thread on testing your hearing frequency (with audio files and methodology.
points to pcabx, a free program written by arny krueger, of pcavtech fame. pretty neat. there’s an listening training section for audio-technical training. also, and this is interesting, there’s also a page on musical-artistic listening. it’s amazing to be actively surfing the net for over five years, and still finding incredible useful stuff.
ms product activation because of .net? the register seems to think so… makes sense.
Well Minister, if you asked me for a straight answer then I shall say that, as far as we can see, looking at it by and large, taking one time with another, in terms of the average of departments, then in the final analysis it is probably true to say that, at the end of the day, in general terms, you would find, that, not to put too fine a point on it, there probably wasn’t very much in it one way or the other, as far as one can see, at this stage.
ha, ximian (gnome guys, formerly helix code) advertises on google for kde searches. hmm, here’s the google self-service advertising system. looks pretty cool. when’s redhat, sun or ibm going to start advertising on “windows” (or “help fixing windows” or similar stuff for that matter) keyword?