Saturday, August 16, 2003

RIAA Methods Under Scrutiny. Concerned by the heavy-handed way in which the music industry is going after file traders, a Senate subcommittee will hold hearings into the tactics used. [Wired News] 1:18:53 PM

Power Up: The World on One Grid. Thirty years ago, Buckminster Fuller came up with a plan to plug all the world's continents into the same electrical grid. Once it's fully functional, the only excuse for power shortages will be greed. By Patrick Di Justo for Wired magazine. [Wired News] 1:18:39 PM

"American Splendor". Cult comic-book writer Harvey Pekar -- crank and peculiar optimist -- is brought to life in a remarkable narrative film that's also part animation and documentary. [Salon.com] 1:18:25 PM

Cringely: Macs scare IT departments. Macs aren't more popular in large mainstream organizations because they require less maintenance and that scares IT departments, Robert Cringely writes in "The Pulpit" column for PBS. "Whatever the gigahertz numbers say, Macintoshes are comparable in performance to Windows or Linux machines," he writes. [MacCentral] 1:18:06 PM

Apple Releases 2003-08-14 Security Update [MacSlash] 1:17:51 PM