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!

Greenland Spritual Healer May Topple Government. Plastic::Etcetera::Weird: He decided to enlist the aid of a native Inuit spiritualist to 'drive negative energy' from the government buildings [Plastic: Most Recent] if it were this easy….

Paul Boutin: “A few alert Googlers have noticed that dozens of local newspapers from Boston to Honolulu have run the same letter under different names nationwide.” [Scripting News] oh my oh my, who is messing with the people these days and why? does the media have a bias? apparently so….

They Rule. They Rule [MetaFilter] and they probably will for some time to come

Free(beer) speech. I was walking around a Staples store yesterday afternoon, talking with David Sifry on the cell phone about what a shitty market there is for freelance journalism. It's a topic Paul Boutin brought up in a recent conversation, and which has been echoed by other journalistic Ronin I know. David and I were […]

A little over seven years ago I wrote a glowing review of the then-new Pointcast system. The review ran in Wired, and in huge type at Pointcast's tradeshow booth. And for the next seven years, after Pointcast's quick demise, we've been rebuilding the system, with open formats, choice, two-way-ness, and with a better scaling proposition. […]

andre-michelle.com “Along with some truly impressive flash-experiments, andre-michelle also sports a perfect remake of Donkey Kong in flash and a 3D-tetris. Though not exactly a game I must say I also got some good vibes out of the 'turntables mx'-feature. It made me forget how horrible I am a beatmixing in real life. There are […]

Garage Bands Everywhere, Rejoice!. Technology and Music, Good Partners “This is a recording studio, believe it or not. It's a four-track recorder and mixer. It stores MP3 data files on a Compact Flash card, and includes equalization and several useful audio effects. I'm in Anaheim, and found this Pocketstudio in the Tascam booth at the […]