31 songs that changed my life. Arts: In a new collection of essays writer Nick Hornby reveals the 31 songs that have provided a soundtrack to his life. So we asked 31 music fans, including authors, musicians and artists what song is guaranteed to make their spine tingle [Guardian Unlimited] it isn't every day that […]

1983 Other Makes :Custom : Ford Escort Customized [Bidboy] one of these should be a mandatory trade for every suv driver without passengers.

New four-in-one from Panasonic. Panasonic has a new four-in-one gadget out that combines a digital camera, an MP3 player, a digital voice recorder, and a camcorder that records video directly as MPEG-4 files and stores it on SecureDigital memory cards. The SV-AV30's predecessor, the SV-AV10, didn't exactly find a warm reception, and the SV-AV30, with […]

Jenny: “I will never buy SimCity 4 because I can tell how addictive it is just from the web site.” [Scripting News] I agree completely….

The Length of Two Lives. Not so long ago. [Kieran Healy's Weblog] it is always hard to get students to realize their place in context, and this is a form of that problem. everyone wants to believe deep down that they are some world historic figure…

Proposed: The Bixby Snyder Law. Larry Lessig has a clever workaround for the Sonny Bono all-copyrights-default-to-perpetuity law, recently upheld in the Eldred decision: Charge a “tiny tax,” as low as $1.00, on all copyrights upwards of 50 years old, which their owners wish to keep out of the public domain. It's a great idea. In […]

the man in black. Johnny Cash looks back on his life in his latest video. Chilling [via markromanek] [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog] i've enoyed most of cash's recen work, this is no exception.

The First Amendment still has some wind in its sails – Freedom To Tinker reports that a Court Throws Out No-Reviews Clause in EULA. A court has thrown out a software contract clause prohibiting customers from publishing reviews of a product… [Ernie the Attorney] yah, this is good news

DALnet DDoS attacks. After the whole Napster deal, I turned to DALnet for my music needs…but, for the past few weeks, DALnet has been under DDoS attacks preventing me, and countless other from accessing the servers. I find this interesting because while DDoS attacks on RIAA make the news and stop after a few days, […]

NY Times: Court Rules Against Network Associates' Software Review Policy. A New York court has ruled that Network Associates, a maker of popular antivirus and computer security software, may not require people who buy the software to get permission from the company before publishing reviews of its products. [Tomalak's Realm] wooo hooo, this is great!