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FBI Raids Homes and Seizes Bandwidth Pirate's PCs [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters]

Get your mod chips now!

No Love From Microsoft For Xbox Modders [Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters]

End of the Line

Here is a list of 10 cars models that are ending production with the 2003 model year. Notable deaths include the Chevrolet Camaro, Cadillac Eldorado and the Lincoln Continental.

CmdrTaco

Good Interview with Rob Malda (aka CmdrTaco). The founder of Slashddot. [via Daypop Top 40]

Computer Human Values

Great article by Nathan Shedroff. When producers of the first personal computers initially launched them into the market over 20 years ago, they could think of no better use for them than storing recipes and balancing one's checkbook. They couldn't predict how deep computers (and related devices) would seep into our lives. [via Tomalak's Realm]

HappyRobot Radio

Here is a great streaming radio station I've been listening to lately. It has introduced me to quite a few artists that I wasn't aware of. A bit quirky. My kinda stuff. They are having problems with their stream but you can also listen via Live365.

Quote of the Day

Matt Groening. "Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come." [Quotes of the Day]

Disney Mug Holders Beware

Funny. I never knew poeple did this...

"The new system of computerized monitoring of fountain refills being experimented with at Typhoon Lagoon could tighten a rather loose policy at Disney's resorts. They sell 16-ounce souvenir mugs for $9.99.

Guests may refill them at resort snack bars unlimited times with soda, coffee or tea for the length of their stay. Cashiers sell the mugs and then are supposed to keep a watchful eye as guests get their own refills.

But some Disney World employees and regular guests say they take the mugs on repeat visits to the snack bars and fill up -- basically a lifetime of free drinks for one purchase. They are occasionally offered on eBay and at garage sales, testimony to their timeless value.

Cashiers say the mugs' designs aren't changed enough for them to spot old ones. But the new system being tried at Typhoon Lagoon employs a bar code that's read electronically at the drink dispenser and recognizes old mugs." [Orlando Sentinel, via Boing Boing]

Happy Birthday Gaudi!

150 years ago today Antoni Gaudi was born. He's done some pretty cool stuff. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]

Tablet PC's are coming (again)

It's a Tablet. It's a Notebook. From Microsoft, a New Hybrid.. When Microsoft announces that machines using its Tablet PC software will be introduced on Nov. 7, the emphasis will be on using pen-based features to enhance conventional notebook computers. [New York Times: Technology]

Warchalking

Warchalking Runes 1.0. Matt Jones, inventor of "war-chalking" -- hobo-runes that WiFi activists chalk on the sidewalk when they encouter a wireless netwok -- proposes a set of simple symbols.
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Some Problems...

FYI...if you notice some changes to this site it is because I'm having some problems with the software I am using to manage it. Rest assured everything will be back to normal soon. (And this generic template will be gone.)

The Glass Engine

There is a very interesting new approach to searching and interacting with information at....

http://www.philipglass.com/glassengine

Note: unfortunately it requires Microsoft Internet Explorer

I suspect you will be as impressed as I was when you see this remarkable technology prototype. It was developed by Mark Podlaseck at IBM's Hawthorne, New YorkResearch Laboratory. The project started when Philip Glass, the composer, asked what his catalog of music might look like online. (read more) [via John Patrick's Weblog]

The News that Changes Everything

Ever since I was a boy I had the idea that one day there would be the news that changes everything.

It could happen any day. You might wake up one day, turn on the news, and there it is, the biggest story of all time.

This news could be one of a few things:

Communication with aliens
Undeniable proof of the existence or non-existence of God
Demonstrable e.s.p or telekinesis or similar
The invention of a time machine
Travel to and from parallel universes
The invention of a faster-than-light spaceship
Discovery of a super-cheap, super-abundant, safe, environmentally-friendly energy source

I’m still waiting. Any day now. [inessential.com]

Burn Images on your CDs

Burning images along with data. Yamaha has shipped a new CD burner that can write images directly on the substrate, using unoccupied sectors. [via bOing bOing]

GPS as Etch a Sketch

Here is a story about a new GPS activity: GPS Drawings. Thanks to the shifted librarian I was drawn into this new phenomenon and have decided this week I must give it a try. Unfortunately I suck at drawing, but this physical etch a sketch system looks like fun, especially since I'm going to do a drawing in our chopper :) [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]