"It's not punitive, it's just purely prevention to stop him from attacking us. He's going to stay in the can until we're through with al-Qaida."

Padilla to Be Held Indefinitely

Bowie: "I don't even know why I would want to be on a label in a few years, because I don't think it's going to work by labels and by distribution systems in the same way. The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years, and authorship and intellectual property is in for such a bashing."

David Bowie looks forward to the next music revolution.

David Bowie, 21st-Century Entrepreneur

You can take a road trip to New York and play the Black Course at Bethpage for about $40, but if your golf is anything like mine you'll probably score over 200. Another option is to download this course file. Its quite accurate, and gives you an idea of what the US Open players are dealing with. I don't know what I hate more about it, the sand traps, or the elevation changes... This is a very hard golf course.

Bethpage Black for Links 2001

"The sheer aggressive ugliness is far too consistent to be the result of incompetence."

An analysis of internet porn by Eric Raymond (yes, that one). And its actually interesting...

Internet porn

Death in LegoLand. The best one is the last one under domestic disturbances.

LEGODEATH: A Museum of Horrors

"On May 15, the Cato Institute published a new paper by Liebowitz, "Policing Pirates in the Networked Age," that takes a comprehensive look at the history of the recording industry's battle with piracy."

Salon.com Technology | File sharing: Innocent until proven guilty

"Unless you’ve been held incommunicado by U.S. military forces and missed the previews running every five minutes on television, you probably know that Steven Spielberg’s soon-to-be-released Minority Report is about a futurist police agency called “Precrime.” The agency is responsible for identifying and arresting murderers before they commit their crimes."

A good quick summary of the general truth behind the articles I recommended yesterday.

Department of Precrime

MTV.com sells a number of tracks in WMA format. Their site is powered by rioport, which builds ecommerce software for selling DRMed music files.

Featured Downloads at MTV.com

"A smattering of small businesses selling potassium iodide--an FDA-approved drug that mitigates potential effects from radiation exposure--have witnessed sales of the drug skyrocket over the past few days."

Terror concerns spark nuke drug sales - Tech News - CNET.com

"Acknowledging that online piracy is forcing dramatic changes in the music industry, the world's two largest record companies are poised to make it easy and cheap for fans to buy rather than steal songs off the Internet."

These aren't MP3's, they are liquid audio files, which means the song contains a code that is tied back to your credit card number. If the song is found in the wild you can be targetted. Liquid Audio has been pursuing this for YEARS now. Its not totally secure. Its not totally unreasonable. Its not an MP3. They'll have a lot of marketing to do to convince people to use this format. They may succeed. When I want to listen to a song, I want to listen to it, and I don't want to deal with slow downloads, choppy files, bad file names, etc...

If they do this right they may fix the telecom industry...

Sony & Universal to sell liquid audio files for 99 cents!!