] This technology heralds the advent of large-screen
] flat-panel displays measuring more than 100 inches
] diagonally that are lightweight, can be configured into
] different shapes with a high degree of flexibility, and
] that can be produced using smaller-scale equipment than
] required for the production of conventional PDPs of
] similar size.

mmm...... 100 inch plasma displays

Fujitsu's Plasma Tube Technologies Herald Advent of 100-Inch-Plus Flat-Screen Displays - FUJITSU

] Pornographer Larry Flynt says he bought nude photos of
] Pfc. Jessica Lynch to publish in Hustler magazine, but
] changed his mind because she's a "good kid" who became "a
] pawn for the government."

People don't give Flynt enough credit (sometimes). Is it funny to anyone else that "Pornographer" is a title used by the media?

CNN.com - Flynt won't publish topless Lynch photos - Nov. 11, 2003

] Now the Kansas reverend wants to put up a 6-foot-tall
] monument in Casper's Central Park that you can view here.
] A bronze plaque on the monument would read:
]
]
] Matthew Shepard Entered Hell October 12, 1998, at age
] 21 in Defiance of God's Warning: "Thou shalt not lie with
] mankind as with womankind; it is abomination." Leviticus
] 18:22

Every day I feel more justified in my distaste for stupid christian groups. How can you take a message such as that which Christ ostensibly stood for, and go so far awry?

Monument From Hell - Make room for a Matthew Shepard hate monument in a town square near you. By Emily Bazelon

] If someone like Karl Rove had wanted to
] neutralize the most creative, intelligent, and
] passionate members of his opposition, he'd have a
] hard time coming up with a better tool than
] Burning Man. Exile them to the wilderness, give
] them a culture in which alpha status requires
] months of focus and resource-consumptive
] preparation, provide them with metric tons of
] psychotropic confusicants, and then... ignore
] them. It's a pretty safe bet that they won't be
] out registering voters, or doing anything that
] might actually threaten electoral change, when
] they have an art car to build.

No one has ever expressed my thoughts on burning man more accurately.

[BarlowFriendz] 9.8: Spectacles in the Desert

] Dean campaign manager Joe Trippi has admitted on numerous
] occasions (including this Slashdot post) that his time in
] Silicon Valley affected his thinking about politics. "I
] used to work for a little while for Progeny Linux
] Systems," Trippi told cyber-guru Lawrence Lessig in an
] August interview. "I always wondered how could you take
] that same collaboration that occurs in Linux and open
] source and apply it here. What would happen if there were
] a way to do that and engage everybody in a presidential
] campaign?"

Wow, I had no idea that Joe Trippi worked with Ian....

Dean Campaign Manager worked at Progeny

i don't know who couldn't believe that /. picked up this story, but I just saw it on the business segment on CNN. Apparently what they are banking on is that the vast majority of people won't actually redeem the free songs. The companies do not have to pay for them unless people actually use the vouchers. However, they did confirm that they paid full price for the songs (when they are eventually used).

inignoct wrote:
] [edit] i'll leave my original post below, but take w/ grain of
] salt. this is the NY Post after all, and i've seen no
] corroboration yet. perhaps i got over excited
] [/edit]
]
] man. looks like i'll be ordering me some mcflurry's.
]
] and also, holy shit !
]
] " Both Pepsi and McDonald's are paying Apple's retail price of
] 99 cents per song, sources say. And McDonald's has arranged to
] buy up to a billion songs to meet customer demand."
]
] That's some nice extra revenue, even if reality pushes the
] number down to, say, 300 million. that's amazing that they're
] paying full price, AND paying marketing. it's almost like,
] McD's and Pepsi are acting like Apple is a stronger trademark
] to capitalize on. or, at least, that iTunes/online music
] offers them some special benefits. Damn.

RE: New York Post Online Edition: business

] The mishap was caused because 24 bolts were missing from
] a fixture in the “turn over cart”. Two errors occurred. First, technicians from another satellite program that uses the same type of “turn over cart” removed the 24 bolts from the NOAA cart on September 4 without proper documentation. Second, the NOAA team working today failed to follow the procedure to verify the configuration of the NOAA “turn over cart” since they had used it a few days earlier.

Earth Science Missions Anomaly Report: GOES/POES Program/POES Project: 6 Sep 2003 | SpaceRef - Your Space Reference

] uncovered "an actual election file containing actual
] votes on election day from San Luis Obispo County,
] California"

Slashdot | Electronic Voting: Your Worst Nightmares are True

But the history here is fun. Here’s a quote from a 1967 House Judiciary Report, considering a modification to the law as it existed then:

[T]he record producers argued vigorously that the compulsory license system must be retained. They asserted that the record industry is a half-billion-dollar business of great economic importance in the United States and throughout the world; records today are the principal means of disseminating music, and this creates special problems, since performers need unhampered access to musical material on nondiscriminatory terms. Historically, the record producers pointed out, there were no recording rights before 1909 and the 1909 statute adopted the compulsory license as a deliberate anti-monopoly condition on the grant of these rights. They argue that the result has been an outpouring of recorded music, with the public being given lower prices, improved quality, and a greater choice.

Copyright Law Revision, Committee on the Judiciary, 90th Cong. 1st, Sess., Rep. No. 83 66 (March 8, 1967).

Lessig's Blog: The recording industry vs. compulsory licensing- now and then.

Dear Friends and fellow Wesleynauts,
We are deeply saddened to report that one of our artists, Wesley
Willis passed away yesterday, Thursday, August 21st. Wesley will be
greatly missed by all that had the privilege to know him, as well as
the fans who have been fortunate enough to experience his genius.

...

Rock on Wesley Willis.

R.I.P Wesley Willis