January 2008
172 posts
links for 2008-01-01 →
RIAA not suing over CD ripping but still kinda being jerks | Engadget
Quote - It turns out that (Jeffery Howell, who’s being sued by the RIAA) isn’t actually being sued for ripping CDs, like the Washington Post and several other sources have reported
(tags: copyright riaa)
In a radical move, I’ll be going out tonight. Happy New Year’s to all my Twitter friends.
December 2007
275 posts
Remember tonight - When you get drunk in public, someone may take your picture and put it on the Internet - http://tinyurl.com/3cpowt
RIAA not suing over CD ripping but still kinda... →
Quote - It turns out that (Jeffery Howell, who’s being sued by the RIAA) isn’t actually being sued for ripping CDs, like the Washington Post and several other sources have reported
Back home in Nashville after a great weekend visiting family in Mobile. Caffeine-fueled early, early long drive back — I’m outta gas now.
links for 2007-12-30 →
Last.fm FlickrFan concert photos | Joe Lazarus
A personalized feed that searches Flickr for highly relevant concert photos based on the music interests for a Last.fm user name. (via: Taylor McKnight)
(tags: flickrfan lastfm flickr)
This game has settled one thing, for sure: The NFL Network is not worth subscribing to.
Geez, I hate to admit how great Brady/Moss are. But, geez.
Yea! 12-point lead.
@susanreynolds - Well, if it helps, I’m a closet Redskins fan (when @coleh isn’t watching.) But my era was the Hogs, Riggins, Theismann
Giants lead 21-16 at halftime of this 3-hour commercial for the NFL Network.
Hey, wait @susanreynolds. My hometeam can make the playoffs if they win tomorrow. However, I’ll admit envy is a factor.
I hate the New England Patriots, he said politely.
Last.fm FlickrFan concert photos | Joe Lazarus →
A personalized feed that searches Flickr for highly relevant concert photos based on the music interests for a Last.fm user name. (via: Taylor McKnight)
It’s not that I minded driving seven hours today. It would have been nicer had it not been through torrential rain — the entire trip.
Dave’s cool new thing →
I apologize for the jumpiness of
this video I grabbed to demo how my
screensaver uses a stream of photos from my
Flickr-contacts’ photos generated by
Dave’s software, that can found at
at FlickrFan.org.
Dave Winer often describes himself online as a “media hacker.” And today, he’s releasing a new product called — at least for now, FlickrFan. It is quite a cool media hack. And by...
Chris Anderson: Are dead-tree magazines good or... →
I’m very glad it’s Chris Anderson who wrote this post today. As it’s from Chris, the author of the Long Tail and executive editor of Wired Magazine, perhaps he won’t be written off as some right-wing wacko for putting forth the radically un-chiche suggestion that print magazines (Wired, at least) may actually have a smaller “carbon footprint” than the magazine’s website. Again, that’s Chris —...
Get me re-write: Walt Mossberg says a Windows... →
Walt Mossberg, the consistently Mac gung-ho columnist at the Wall Street Journal, is going to launch a million rebuttals from MacFanboy Nation with his review of the Dell XPS One that concludes it is “the first Windows all-in-one desktop I’ve tested that I believe matches or exceeds the iMac in hardware design.”
I wonder if the Dell folks are doing a re-write parody of this early “I’m a Mac”...
How to rip a DVD to iTunes/iPod - legally →
Via PaidContent.org, comes news (I guess it’s “news” that the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal are reporting what every Apple rumor site has been saying for weeks) that Apple will announce a rental option for some video purchased via the iTunes Store. However, there’s a new twist to the report today: At least one studio, 20th Century Fox, will start adding an MPEG-4 version to DVDs it...
I’ll do a round-up review of several books in a few days.
I’m binge reading books. Avg. one a day. Today it was Steve Martin’s Born Standing Up — a memoir of his standup days. It is great!
A Future Tense story from the past →
As my online time has been sparse the past few days, I’m only now realizing that Jon Gordon’s Public radio show Future Tense posted the story about about Apple and Think Secret that includes some Rex sound bites.
Thanks to Jon’s amazing editing skills, I don’t sound like a complete idiot — except to those who believe Apple can never do wrong.
While the U.S. doesn’t officially celebrate boxing day, I am personally observing it by taking naps between meals and reading books.
Christmas at the Geeks →
I have only an inkling of an idea what the friendly folks at National Instruments sell, but I’m thinking my 17-year-old son may one day want to go work there after viewing this:
links for 2007-12-26 →
2007: The Year in RSS | ReadWriteWeb
I ’second-that’ this quote from Marshall Kirkpatrick - I love RSS and hope that next year will be an even bigger year for this world-changing medium.
(tags: RSS syndication)
Titans favored in game against Colts | Tennessean.com
Quote - Oddsmakers obviously feel the Colts will rest a lot of key players. The Titans (9-6) opened as a 2½-point favorite over...
Saw Great Debaters today. Wonderful film. Formulaic, but wonderful.
@steverubel - Happy NBA & Chinese Food Day!
Titans favored in game against Colts |... →
Quote - Oddsmakers obviously feel the Colts will rest a lot of key players. The Titans (9-6) opened as a 2½-point favorite over the Colts (13-2) and that line was up to 6½ by late Monday.
Listening to Oscar Peterson’s Xmas album (ITS link) http://tinyurl.com/236fbo - RIP, Oscar
2007: The Year in RSS | ReadWriteWeb →
I ‘second-that’ this quote from Marshall Kirkpatrick - I love RSS and hope that next year will be an even bigger year for this world-changing medium.
links for 2007-12-25 →
Trend: Consumer generated magazines | CScout TrendBlog
(Familiar to rexblog readers) Quote - The idea behind consumer-generated magazines is to publish some of the growing mass of online content while empowering the consumers themselves.
(tags: magazines 8020 jpgmagazine)
What does Santa look like? | Seth’s Blog
Quote - Coke didn’t invent Santa. The astonishing thing is that for a moment we...
Merry Christmas, Twitter followers: I’d like to give you a Tshirt. Really. Let me know size and color here: hammock.com/tshirt (12/25 only.)
How NOT to address a personalized Christmas email greeting: Dear (Contact First Name).
@Rafe Happy Birthday — you mean there’s some other gift giving occasion around now?
Tip - Even though markets are open, listening to Kings College Choir Christmas service provides a better ROI. http://tinyurl.com/2c97o7
Weird thing #1 - DJ is up over 200 points today. Weird thing #2 - I thought it was Sunday and was wondering what was broken at WSJ.com
News Groper →
An aggregator of parody blogs. (via Doc)
Boy holds Wii raffle for needy | News 14 →
On Christmas Eve, this is the kind of story one should link to.
What does Santa look like? | Seth's Blog →
Quote - Coke didn’t invent Santa. The astonishing thing is that for a moment we might even believe that they did.
Trend: Consumer generated magazines | CScout... →
(Familiar to rexblog readers) Quote - The idea behind consumer-generated magazines is to publish some of the growing mass of online content while empowering the consumers themselves.