This is whack. Anti-American propaganda from North Korea. Worse then junior high schooler's rap. Entertaining regardless...

Fucking USA

] SunnComm Technologies Inc. (OTC: STEH), a leader in
] digital content security and enhancement for optical
] media, announced today that it intends to take legal
] action against the writer of a critical report titled:
] "Analysis of the MediaMax CD3 Copy-Prevention System."

CD 'shift-key' Hackers Sued

Showcase of Nashville electronic music at The End Oct. 11th 9PM. Link goes to this week's Nashville Scene write-up about the local electronic musicians.

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In short, Area 615 is a fine survey of what gets called electronic music these days. Contributors like Satellite City and Callisto (both side projects featuring members of local band Venus Hum) bring an appreciation for recent trends and ideas--e.g., the "glitch" style of clicking and popping noises promulgated by the German label Mille Plateaux. Notably different, but hardly out of place here, is Mr. Natural, who uses contact microphones, guitar pickups and the surfaces of objects to create what could appropriately be called sound explorations. His approach shares a kinship with a totally different group of musicians, among them San Francisco's Loren Chasse and the UK's Jonathan Coleclough, who electronically process field recordings to create pieces that can be at once gentle and disorienting.

Props to all the people on this CD....this is a truely great thing, and I can't wait to buy my copy (aKa, sell some at PN and reserve one for me damnit:))

New compilation CD and upcoming live show survey Nashville's electronic musical underground

] Writing in the journal Science, Lieberman and Eisenberger
] said the brains of the volunteers lit up when they were
] rejected in virtually the same way as a person
] experiencing physical pain.
]
]
]
] "It would be odd if social pain looked like the exact
] same thing as someone-breaking-your-arm pain," Lieberman
] said. "What it does look like is visceral pain."
]
]
]
] In other words -- like being punched in the stomach.

Yahoo! News - Images Show a Snub Really Is Like Kick in the Gut

Go Elonka:)

STLtoday - News - Story

] The more commercial television news you watch, the more
] wrong you are likely to be about key elements of the Iraq
] War and its aftermath, according to a major new study
] released in Washington on Thursday.

While thinking people are apt to be little suprised by this, its actually a fairly damning report on just how many of us are lieing to ourselves. There may be questions that can be raised about the objectivity of this group, but the press seems to carry their studyies frequently. This specific report, however, has had almost no coverage.

Asia Times - Study: People who watch TV less likely to understand Iraq

] One group in Poland is currently advertising "invisible
] bulletproof hosting" in online forums for spammers. For
] $1,500 per month, the group says it can protect a site
] from network sleuthing tools used by spam opponents, such
] as traceroute and whois.

Wired News: Cloaking Device Made for Spammers

] You also have an incredibly overzealous vocal minority
] that thinks it still owns the Internet, and the
] anarchists that think everything should be free. And then
] you have everybody else that uses the Internet every day
] and doesn't know what ICANN is. I think this is a broken
] model that we have talked to ICANN and the Department of
] Commerce about.

Verisign is opposed to Internet Governance.

CRN Interview: Stratton Sclavos, VeriSign

Look the bastards in the eyes.

Photos from ICANN Verisign Meeting

] Stephen Crocker, one of the Internet's original
] architects and the ICANN committee's chairman, asked
] VeriSign why the wild card was introduced without giving
] network operators any warning. "I know for a fact that
] VeriSign has no problem finding its way to those
] (technical discussion) forums," Crocker said, referring
] to the company's ongoing participation in them.
]
] "I don't want to go beyond the agenda," replied Chuck
] Gomes, VeriSign's vice president for its registry
] service. Citing concerns of proprietary information and
] competitive advantage, he added that he didn't think he
] could guarantee any advance notice of similar changes in
] the future.

VeriSign fends off critics at ICANN confab | CNET News.com