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So last.fm have announced they will be offering a streaming service in the near future which will allow users to play any given track whenever they want. As of today, you can play full-length tracks and entire albums for free on the Last.fm website. I hope that this ends up being a real step forward [...]

Bruce Schneier is on the money in his recent Wired article “The Eternal Value of Privacy” Privacy protects us from abuses by those in power, even if we’re doing nothing wrong at the time of surveillance. … Too many wrongly characterize the debate as “security versus privacy.” The real choice is liberty versus control. Tyranny, [...]

Today I went to the Northeastern Free Culture Forum. It was the kickoff of the Free Culture group at Northeastern. Lawrence Lessig, Derek Slater (EFF), and Nelson Pavlosky (FC.o) were on the panel. Some very salient points were made. It was the first time I ever saw Larry Lessig present and his thoughts really struck [...]

Cory Doctorow spoke at MIT tonight. I am very very impressed with his public speaking ability. Cory makes some of the best analogies I have heard about the history of art and where it should go in the future. However that future is under attack by people who do not understand where art has been [...]

Hannibal over at Ars has written two good articles on the NSA wiretap scandal. First he goes into what can be gathered by reading quotes of people who know about the program. He also talks about what has been previously mentioned about this technology. In the second article he neatly presents an easy to read [...]

One cool thing with windows Live maps is that you can add pushpins onto the map. And then create a URL to always access that map. Plus it has Europe with some level of detail. More then any other service I have seen. Check out a map of the route Paul and I took on [...]

So today my gam_server went memory crazy. It is a daemon that notfies applications about file changes. At one point it was using 40% of my gig of memory. I killed it and it came right back and was using 22% a short while later. Luckily the newest version(0.17) is in dapper drake and is [...]

Today I found a gem. A few dusty copies of my radio show Elektrodelic Symphony. It is now going to be resurrected as a podcast, cause that is the hip thing to do. Part one from October 26th. The episode in which I have an off the air call in request. I also call the [...]

So today for some reason the thought hit me. I have been using the internet since around ’98 or so, maybe even earlier. I don’t really remember. In that time I have created many accounts and religiously visited many different forums, so I have Interent debris floating all around the ‘net ready to come back [...]

Neil Gaiman mentioned on his blog today that Yahoo has a exclusive trailer for his film Mirrormask available. After seeing the trailer along with the previous ones and hearing all talk about the movie, I will be glad when I get to see it soon. It arrives in theaters this Fall. Now I am looking [...]