Greatest American Movie Quotes
Toto, I’ve got a feeling we’re not in Kansas
anymore.
(The Wizard of OZ, 1939)
What we’ve got here is failure to
communicate.
(Cool Hand Luke, 1967)
I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
It’s the smell of victory.
(Apocalypse Now, 1979)
It looks like June of 2007 will not be remembered with fondness in the slimy halls of the RIAA.
TGDaily has a great article about the Tayna, who after successfully defended herself against the RIAA and their minions and has now filed an Oh-So-Righteous counter-suit aimed not only at the RIAA, but the puppet masters behind [...]
Take Two Interactive, the video game publisher responsible for The Grand Theft Auto series and the more recent Bully, was slapped with an ’Adults Only’ rating for their upcoming title, Manhunt 2. This does not bode well for the future of the title. Neither Sony nor Nintendo will authorize release for titles bearing that rating [...]
As we inch ever closer to iLaunch, Bloomberg.com tells investors that they may be getting set up for a fall. As with many of their products, Apple would like to capture the market share but in a business that is four times larger than the PC market, this could be harder than most people [...]
What do you get when you mix a sharp entrepreneur, a misguided and bitter photographer, and a inept lawyer? You get a hilarious e-mail thread which excites, mystifies and saddens us in turn. It’s well worth spending 15 or 20 minutes and reading everything including the comments. Good stuff, better than fiction.
This post is for [...]
Well, I almost missed this article in Information Week. Reinforcing my claim that Not All That Glitters Is Gold.
iPhone Backlash Misses the PointPosted by Richard Martin, Jun 20, 2007 06:50 PM
Fake Steve Jobs is not someone to suffer indignity lightly. And lately he’s had plenty to wax indignant about. We refer, natch, to the [...]
A recent survey of on-line mobile phone shoppers (by the Electronic Manufacturing Services online presence, EMSNow!) has revealed some surprising results! Nearly 60% of the people polled were interested in the iPhone, but had no intention of jumping on the bleeding edge bandwagon.
The overall initial cash output which included the cost of the toy [...]
AT&T has created 2000 temporary jobs nationwide to handle the surge in business expected with the launch of Apples iPhone. With units available exclusively at AT&T and Apple stores, there is expected to be a mad, frenzied rush for the devices.
As many of you are aware, I’m underwhelmed with the whole idea. I [...]
I’m glad that there are at least a few similar minded folk out there with regards to the iPhone. Here is a thought provoking article which logically debunks the ’break a network’ scenario that Jobs suggested in Newsweek.
Instead it appears that P2P file sharing might be one of the causes. Hmmmmm – I [...]
With Apple maintaining a stranglehold on the code for their newest toy, many experts believe that will only fuel the hackers frenzy to crack the code. Only Apple seems to know how to write apps for it’s soon to be launched mashup of technology. And so far the only thing it’ll do that is new [...]
A Judge in New Mexico has placed a large road-block in the way of the RIAA and their sleazy tactic of filing generic lawsuits against unnamed students, trying to pry identities from Universities and ISPs. The Judge seems to think that the ability to cure the ‘irreparable harm’ stated in the lawsuits with a large [...]
Doc Searls shared a though that came through an old friend of his. I think it’s important to realize that the Internet is not ‘yet’ the end-all in information storage. There must be Hundreds of Thousands, maybe Millions of volumes of information that exist only in your local, Public Library. And [...]
In a continuation of my last post, now it seems like Congress is going to get involved and ’Hold Some Hearings’, That’ll square things away quickly, I’m sure.
Congress holds hearings on tech insecurity at DHS
Over at Wired’s Threat Level blog, Ryan Singel writes:
A House Homeland Security subcommittee is holding a hearing [today] into security [...]
Yahoo is reporting that the Department of Homeland Security has come clean and admitted to having suffered from more than 800 types of attacks on their computer systems in the last two years. These attacks included break-ins, viruses and two computers found with password stealing tools on them.
DHS acknowledges own computer break-ins
By TED BRIDIS, [...]
The Inquirer On-Line (the respectable English Newspaper, not the tabloid rag) reports that since EMI went DRM free they have been outselling locked music by a BUNCH. Their estimates say that The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd has seen a jump in sales somewhere between 275 and 350 PERCENT!
EMI has DRM [...]
Victims of the dot.com bubble burst have lost again, this time in the highest court of our land. The Supreme Court, in a 7-1 ruling, dismissed arguments made by more that 60 investors. Investors claimed that the Wall Street banks violated anti-trust laws by requiring investors to keep certain promises just to get in on [...]
Many people may not know this, but I’m a closet Grand Theft Auto fan. I discovered it for the PC and have played that version of Vice City as well as the PS2 version. I’ve also purchased a Sony PSP just to play Vice City Stories and Liberty City Stories.
I saw this article today and [...]
Lens Implant
Man, this just freaks me out. I guess that having been ‘blessed’ by decent eyesight all of my life I’ve never had to deal with anything like this guy did, but still. Yuck!
That’s when they mentioned that I may be eligible for [...]
iPhone, schmiPhone
Excuse me if I’m not overwhelmed by the media hype concerning the upcoming launch of the iPhone. For me it has nothing to do with hating Apple like it obviously does for some of the pundits out there. For me it’s a question of A + B does not equal C.
On the [...]
Google Calendar Rocks
I had been trying to figure out a way to keep track of not only my appointments and stuff but Brooke’s as well. I read an article on Lifehacker that discussed using Google calendars and sharing them to make an ersatz to do list. All well and good as ideas go [...]
