] The tour manager for a rock band that was on stage when a
] deadly nightclub fire broke out told investigators he has
] paperwork outlining the band's general use of
] pyrotechnics, but he said all the documents specific to
] that show were destroyed in the fire.

OK, I blog this just because its a good lesson. The legal documents pertaining to who is responsible for what go in a SAFETY DEPOSIT BOX or at least a FIRE PROOF SAFE. Leaving them lying around in the same place where the event, business, or other interest in question is occuring is abysmally dumb for exactly this reason.

Band's tour manager says he had documents about use of pyrotechnics

It begins! Fly the REAL friendly skies. I wonder if they serve buffalo shrimp on the plane??

HootersAir - We loves us some flying, and it be showing like a mofo

] People used to worry about the government compiling a
] database of everything they knew about you and everything
] you did. But who'd have thought we'd be so keen to keep
] updating our own entries?

The amount of free speech our society will have in this environment will depend on either our ability to acknowledge that people change, and old net posts are not things you hold people accountable for, or our ability to develop and use powerful anonymnity software.

Guardian Unlimited | Online | A blogger is a stalker's dream

] So who will perform the function of Microsoft in the
] Linux world?

More Sony CEO interview. Not as good as the last, but I figured I'd keeping posting...

Sony's Idei - Part 2 :: AO

] The music industry has been spoiled. They have controlled
] the distribution of music by producing CDs, and thereby
] have also protected their profits. So they have resisted
] Internet distribution. Six years ago I asked Sony Music
] to start working with IBM to figure out how to offer
] secured distribution of their content over the Net. But
] nobody in Sony Music would listen. Then about six months
] ago, they started to panic.

A very candid conversation with the CEO of Sony.

Sony's CEO Unplugged :: AO

] In the photo above is the webACE: a Fairchild ACE1101MT8
] microcontroller programmed as a Web server and containing
] two tiny web pages in its on-chip memory. Since the
] ACE1101MT8 is the smallest available microcontroller, I
] believe that this really is the World's Smallest Web
] Server.

This is the platform used in that fly article. This article is a little more informative. I don't really care about the fly. I care about the server. Links to a number of other more practical platforms such as PIC based servers (they are technically larger, but basically the idea is the same). A little digging and you'll find a number of open source TCP/IP stacks for microcontrollers.

This is of use if you want to embed internet connectivity into extremely small devices. The next question is how small can you make your bluetooth transmitter.

Tiny webserver, without the fly

Even if you're not Polish or Canadian, everyone can appreciate the beauty of a jelly donut.

FAT TUESDAY BABY!!!

] Britain's The Observer newspaper has published a memo
] that purportedly orders increased espionage against U.N.
] Security Council diplomats. The memo is likely a forgery:
] It includes un-American spellings, and the writer
] apparently lacks understanding of the U.S. intelligence
] community's structure.

I found this link first. Stratfor is a reputable source, but apparently there is more information at the Drudge Report (U: which I can't find but Politechbot has some info). The funny thing is that The Observer is continuing to insist that this is real and has changed the spelling "back" on their website. (No word from them about the phoney classification level, etc...)

Observer story likely faked.

] By appearing to disregard a series of ever-escalating
] actions by Pyongyang, the US may hope to alarm its allies
] and partners in the region to become more involved
] themselves in the North Korean problem. That would help
] bridge the gap between those who want the US to enter
] direct talks with the North - something the US wants to
] avoid - and the US view that Seoul, Beijing, and Tokyo
] must be part of any resolution.

A good analysis of U.S. Strategy in N.K.

Why US is reacting quietly to N. Korea's provocations | csmonitor.com

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