Congrats to Tyree and Alisa Peters, who tied the knot on 3/4/05!!!

Congrats to Tyree and Alisa

Have you seent he new BK TV spot with Darius Rucker looking like a singing rhinestone cowboy? All I can say is WTF?!? . I quickly recognized the tune as "Big Rock Candy Mountain" but I didn't realize times had gotten so tough for Darius.

The lastest from Crispin Porter + Bogusky for Burger King is this strange commercial for their Tendercrisp Bacon Cheddar Ranch sandwich. It is like an Old Navy ad on acid with some Playboy/Penthouse thrown in for good measure, somewhat typical of David LaChapelle's work.

One of the stranger things about this ad is the number of B-list celebrities. The ad stars Darius Rucker (a.k.a Hootie), the lead singer of Hootie and the Blowfish, fitted out in cowboy gear, singing new lyrics to the tune of "Big Rock Candy Mountain", an old bluegrass song.

Yeah, this is the strangest commercial that I have seen in a while, for a kind of gross sounding sandwich. Ranch on a burger? And how can something be both tender and crisp at the same time?

Cowboy Hootie sings for Burger King

] Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said Thursday
] that a new consumption tax such as a national sales tax
] could spark the economy as a partial replacement for
] income taxes.

ABC News: Greenspan Touts Consumption Tax

] On the other hand, say you've already established
] something of an online identity, perhaps through your own
] web site, or as a frequent commenter at this or some
] other blog(s). What prevents someone else from coming
] along and posting a comment here, leaving your name and
] your website's URL to identify himself? Put another
] way, how can readers determine the authenticity of
] comments left here?

This is an interesting idea...

PGP-Signed Comments | Musings

] Go the fuck away! I'm working on some bad-ass computer shit
] right now! I have no time for team spirit!

134 installments of get your office space on. I'm sure some of you will enjoy it.

www.mnftiu.cc | my new filing technique is unstoppable

] EFF is defending StreamCast Networks, the company behind
] the Morpheus peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing software, in
] an important case that will be heard before the Supreme
] Court of the United States on March 29, 2005.

I had no idea that such a big Supreme Court case was on the near horizon. This is worth being aware of. There is a hell of a lot to read here if you want to become an expert. I haven't read it all.

This is a difficult question. On the one hand I'm pursuaded that what Kazaa did is morally questionable. They designed this system for piracy and sold it for piracy. Thats what its for. There is no use being stupid about that. On the other hand I also think that they maybe ought to be able to release software like that as a matter of academic freedom. The people who are running it know damn well what they are doing. If Kazaa cannot be released then many interesting "hacking tools" that I have loved over the years would also be illegal. Even though they could be applied to perfectly legitimate purposes.

Do you think radar detectors ought to be legal?

EFF: MGM v. Grokster

] Magnetic Stripe Snooping at Home
]
] Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday March 01, @09:59AM
] from the because-you-can dept.
]
] pbrinich writes "Have you ever wondered what information
] is actually stored on all those cards you have in your
] wallet? Well, it turns out you can find out yourself! An
] excellent project, Stripe Snoop started by Billy Hoffman,
] a Georgia Tech computer science student, contains
] schematics, source code and a wide variety of information
] about the standards used to store all sorts of
] information on your magnetic cards."

[ Billy makes the front page of /. Go billy! -k]

StripeSnoop on /.

] The Department of Homeland Security has named Claria, an
] adware maker that online publishers once dubbed a
] "parasite," to a federal privacy advisory board.

Wow thats stupid. I hope this isn't indicitive of their anti-terrorism policies.

Adware maker joins federal privacy board | CNET News.com

] Anita Thompson also echoes the comments that have been
] made by Hunter Thompson's son and daughter-in-law: That
] her husband's suicide did not come from the bottom of the
] well, but was a gesture of strength and ultimate control
] made as his life was at a high-water mark.

Some of you might take an interest in this information.

Details of Thompson Suicide

] In one recent case, the lawsuit and subpoena were issued
] in response to someone opining on an online message board
] that the president of a corporation had "a Napoleon
] complex." In another, the lawsuit was based on a
] statement that the company's executives were getting rich
] while the stock price was in free fall. Each of these
] suits was dropped once it became clear that the anonymous
] speaker was going to court to protect his identity,
] suggesting that the real purpose of the litigation was to
] discover whether the statements were made by employees so
] that the company could retaliate against them.

Anonymous speech on the Interent matters.

Legal Technology - Publius, RIP?