Pressplay bid points to Napster remix. Roxio announces plans to buy the Pressplay online music service and merge it with another recent acquisition, the once controversial but long-muted Napster. [CNET News.com]

Roxio also hired Napster creator Shawn Fanning as a consultant. The new Napster could mean real competition for the iTunes Music Store. Apple should hurry with the Windows version and ramp up song inclusion... If the new Napster comes with a similar service with more songs, there may be serious trouble.

By the way, I'm reading all these articles about Napster being a premier online music brand. In my mind Napster is associated with This stuff is free and the transition from free to pay is hard for a brand. Adding that Napster has been down for the past two years, Do you really think it is such a hot name?

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Guardian: The blog clog myth.

The trouble is that when potentially legitimate concerns about Google's weaknesses are shrouded in conspiracy theories, and other stuff that's just plain wrong, we all reach for those in-built filters far stronger than anything Google can supply: the ones that help us smell BS from afar, and route round it without further ado. Then, one day when Google really does get it wrong, the message will be all the harder to get out.

[Via Scripting News]

Exactly. That is the danger of bad reporting from self claimed authorative sources. When a blogger gets something wrong it gets a ten fold corrections by other bloggers. When the New York Times gets something wrong, they, at most, print a small correction. Rarely, do they go back and reprint a corrected piece with the same placemnet as teh original. When Orlowski and The Register get something wrong... ah, never mind, we are used to that.

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Matrix mixes life and hacking. A hack attack depicted in the Matrix Reloaded draws on real world tools and techniques. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]

Sebatian told me the hacking was done within the Matrix, so any talk about the future is unfounded. The Matrix is a representation of the current world, so Trinity methods are current and correct... She wrote her own tool (SSHNuke) for the cracking job as good hackers do...

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In-boxes that fight back. A technology that makes e-mailers jump through hoops may help kill spam, but CNET News.com's Declan McCullagh says patent lawsuits could keep the technique caged. [CNET News.com]

More problems with Mailblocks (no, they nerver returned my money). But it is clear where they are coming from. They aren't interested in creating a good service, they just want to sell a company in a supposedly hot area, just like WebTV...

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Berger backs fuel stops. Former Grand Prix driver Gerhard Berger tells BBC Sport that refuelling is not a serious danger in Formula One.

Three-time F1 champion Niki Lauda, who was badly burned in a fiery accident in 1976, praised Ferrari's reaction to Schumacher's blaze.

"It was sensational how Ferrari handled the incident," Lauda told Swiss newspaper Blick.

"First, they had refuelling problems, and then the fire.

"Usually the Italians panic in such situations. This time they remained cool and solved it perfectly, just like Michael did in the car.

"Michael knew that his overalls would hold the fire much longer than the ones I had in my days. He could have stayed in the cockpit for much longer before he would look like me."

[BBC News | Front Page | UK Edition]

Niki Lauda should remember that it was an Italian, who helped him out of the fire. If it were not for an italaian that didn't panic, he would be dead... What an asshole.

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