Universal Rule

Book Reviews

Monday, May 5, 2003

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Apple's iTunes Music Store: the Review: "After reading Jade's review, I've renewed my resolve not to try the new service. In fact, I won't even visit the site. This isn't because I hate it, but because my credit card is already strained to the breaking point. I've done enough damage this semester with Amazon and one-click shopping; I don't need another online impulse buy addiction. But maybe I'll just browse the catalog a bit..." [Ars Technica]

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Not The Same Old Song: "Amazon was caught sleeping, and now it's Steve Jobs who's running the coolest store on the Internet." (Newsweek via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]

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iTunes: Easier Than Stealing?: "Maybe it's not just a Trojan Horse into the Wintel world, but one into the the music industry itself. No wonder Apple didn't buy Universal; why buy the cow when you can steal its calves?" (The Tech via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]

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Windows Doesn't Live Here Anymore: "My wife chides me for carrying a PowerBook everywhere I go. My editors are sick of seeing mention of the Mac in almost all of my columns. My 18-month-old son walks around the house babbling Apple-Apple-Apple-Apple." (InfoWorld via MyAppleMenu) [MyAppleMenu]

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Backing up with rsync and ssh: "Mike Bombich has written a fine tutorial on remote administration/backup of OS X using rsync and ssh. The same principles can be applied to Windows and Linux as well." [dive into mark]

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BlogShares Experiment at Loebrich.org:

Before the BlogShares reset, I didn't play in the traditional sense, but I bought a single share of affordable and available weblogs I liked. I was also giving a single share of Loebrich.org to BlogShares players meeting any of the following conditions:

Claimed a weblog I read
Claimed a weblog linking to Loebrich.org
Authored a tool I like
Made a contribution to society/weblogging I care about

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See Internet Explorer crash: "It only takes this code:

<html> <form> <input type crash> </form> </html>

[...] To make this a fair game, this invalid code will crash Mozilla: [...]" [Mark Pigrim > vowe dot net]

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Software Bullet Is Sought to Kill Musical Piracy: "Some of the world's biggest record companies, facing rampant online piracy, are quietly financing the development and testing of software programs that would sabotage the computers and Internet connections of people who download pirated music, according to industry executives." [Tomalak's Realm]

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Mountaineer cuts off his own arm with a pocket knife: "As reported in the Rocky Mountain News. Aron Ralston, after being trapped with his arm under a rock for five days, decided that if he did not get free he would die. Using his pocketknife, he amputated his arm below the elbow, put on a tourniquet and administered first- aid. He then rigged anchors and fixed a rope to rappel to the floor of Blue John Canyon." [kuro5hin.org]

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Free Science, Engineering and Medical Books Online: "I am not lying. The National Academies Press [...] has more than 2,500 free, searchable, high quality books online. Some random examples: The Genomic Revolution: Unveiling the Unity of Life Strange Matters: Undiscovered Ideas at the Frontiers of Space and Time Who Goes There?: Authentication Through the Lens of Privacy Microbial Threats to Health: Emergence, Detection, and Response..:" [kuro5hin.org]

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The US and the World Championships points to In USA Today, where columnist Kevin Allen has an interesting piece on the State of hockey: "My hunch is you will weigh on Team USA's historic loss to Denmark at the World Championships. That's like a varsity team losing to a jayvee squad, isn't it?" [Teal Sunglasses]

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Doris Lessing: "Laughter is by definition healthy." [Motivational Quotes of the Day]