] Goombah browses your iTunes collection and theirs to
] compare what you like and make recommendations. If you
] and your peers share a love for one song, chances are
] you%u2019ll appreciate others your Goombah Neighbors
] listen to -- that%u2019s the general idea.

Welcome to Goombah - Music Discovery

Flynn23+1=Flynn24?

After some fits and starts, Eleanor Jewell Kozicki born of natural
birth @ 10:47am on March 11, 2005. Weighing 5 pounds and 15 ounces and
measuring 19.25 inches.

Mom's doing GREAT!
Dad's still coming down from outer space.

Thanks to everyone for your well wishes, thoughts, and prayers. They
definitely helped in bringing a healthy and happy girl to the world.

Cheers,
Penny, Scott, and Ella

Congrats to Scott!

Researchers that reverse engineer software to discover programming flaws can no longer legally publish their findings in France after a court fined a security expert on Tuesday.

Publishing exploit code ruled illegal in france

] The next step is to build a real detector and then, if
] that works, to convince the authorities to support
] widespread deployment. A system that scanned every lorry
] coming into the United States would, the researchers
] estimate, cost about $1 billion. That is a lot of money
] in most contexts, but not all that much in the context of
] nuclear defence. The existing missile-defence programme
] has already cost over $130 billion, and is scheduled to
] spend at least another $50 billion in the next five
] years. And unlike missile interceptors, which on February
] 13th spectacularly failed their second test in two
] months, detectors at America's borders should actually
] work. Madness, it seems, may give way to science.

Economist.com | Finding nukes

] We got it, we played it, we love it. Polyphony Digital's
] latest-generation Gran Turismo introduces a toolbox full
] of new features that'll have you playing for hours,
] sometimes without even driving a single lap. Ever want to
] race in the Grand Canyon? On ice? Around New York City,
] Hong Kong, The Cote D'Azure? How about a drag race down
] the Las Vegas Strip? Now you can take your pick--all over
] the world, on any track, on any surface.

Damnit. I just solved San Andreas and they go and release this. I need a life man. I don't want to be a gamer!

Gran Turismo 4 - First Drive - Motor Trend

] Given the quality of the writing in the
] blogs I have seen, I doubt that many of the Blog People
] are in the habit of sustained reading of complex texts.
] It is entirely possible that their intellectual needs are
] met by an accumulation of random facts and paragraphs. In
] that case, their rejection of my view is quite
] understandable.

The author of the L.A. Times editorial "Google and God's Mind" which seemed to make several (in my opinion short sighted) arguments against digitizing books has come out swinging at the Bloggosphere. As MemeStreams appears first on a Google Search for "Google and God's Mind" its entirely possible that my comments factored in here, although fortunately they don't seem to be referenced specifically.

Writers in the Blogosphere can be rather harsh to public figures. This public figure is rather harsh back. I'm not sure what the point of all of this bickering is. I don't care which one of you is an idiot. NoteWorthy's point that access is a mostly solved problem in the west is a good one, but it doesn't lead to the conclusion that digitizing works has no value, nor does this author's straw man argument about where else to spend the money.

You'll see books mostly go away in your lifetime. There are other, harder problems to solve about how to make the most of information resources available to you. I'd rather think about the later, but I'm still a fan of the former.

Library Journal - Revenge of the Blog People!

Wow, someone finally commercialized body pan technology!

Now, here is the issue. If my bluetooth system had the same cryptographic properties would I need this. I could still use touch as a user interface in most device applications. You could have a doorknob detect when it was touched. And an RF transceiver is going to be more comfortable then something which must make good physical contact with the skin.

The only applications for which this would not work would be person to person handshake data sharing...

RedTacton

You see, every time I play GTA San Andreas I find something new thats cool. Its a world that I can explore. I get to choose my path through it and there are all these interesting, entertaining things that I can play with along the way. I'll be done with this game when there is nothing more for me to do. When I've experienced all of it.

] I've said it before, all you need to get through this life is a
] little patience - and a speedball.

Today I discovered that Tommy "The Nightmare" Smith, the burnt out rocker who DJs the oldies station, is played by Axl Rose. Now, how fucking cool is that?

Sometimes you get so sunk into the pattern of daily life that you forget what makes life interesting. Its that feeling of new experience that I like. Playing this game has actually made me think about things in the world that I want to experience that I haven't bothered to yet. Places I need to go while I'm here. Things I still need to do. Thats pretty amazing for a video game.

What I want these games to start doing is letting me explore the real world through the game. There is something important about creating an environment and letting me decide how I'm going to consume it, instead of spoon feeding it to me in a predetermined way. But if it was a place I'd never been before, and it was accurately built, and the things that I could play with where related to the real place and its history. Well it would be all the more compelling. It would be tourism without getting up. And I think it would change the way people think about the world. When you went there for real, you'd know where you were.

We're still learning to tell stories this way. When we really get good at it, its going to make everything that came before it pale in comparison.

KDST

] At the conclusion of this review, NTIA directed NeuStar
] to phase out the offering of such services by Registrars
] or by any of its partners or resellers and to ensure that
] complete and accurate WHOIS data is provided for any
] existing registrations in .us."

NTIA Nixes Privacy Protection in Whois

] Illegal gizmos that interfere with signals and cut off
] reception are selling like hotcakes on the streets of
] New York.
]
] "I bought one online, and I love it," said one jammer
] owner fed up with the din of dumb conversations and
] rock-and-roll ringtones.
]
] "I use it on the bus all the time. I always zap the
] idiots who discuss what they want from the Chinese
] restaurant so that everyone can hear them. Why is that
] necessary?"

New York Post: New Yorkers find new way to be forcibly inconsiderate