] You went to a great party, had too good of a time, woke
] up with a terrible hangover, and promised yourself you
] wouldn't do that again.
]
] Then the people who threw the party invite you to the
] next one.
]
] What do you do? Go, of course.
]
] I wonder if that's what's happening with all the activity
] in and around Web 2.0 right now.

A VC: Bubble 2.0

] There's no doubt in my mind we're in a bubble right now,
] though during the last one i was far to busy selling
] expensive ads to 20-something CEO's with far more money
] than sense to take much notice of the first from this
] perspective, all i hope from this one, is that we get
] some great innovations out of it. If it has to burst,
] like all bubbles eventually do, let's hope it's not quite
] as messy and that we're left with something valuable at
] the end.

Beware the Web 2.0 Bubble | Threadwatch.org

] Canon (CAJ) will seek approval at its shareholders
] meeting to include "production and sales of
] pharmaceutical products" in its operational objectives,
] getting ready for the commercialization of biotechnology
] products.

Wired News: Camera Maker Becomes Lifesaver

] The number, rendered in exponential shorthand, is
] 2^(25,964,951)-1. It has 7,816,230 digits, and if printed in
] its entirety, would fill 235 newspaper pages.
]
] In addition, it falls in a rare category of primes known
] as Mersenne primes, which can be written as 2n-1 where n
] is also prime.
]
] The first few Mersenne primes are easily verifiable --
] inserting 2, 3 and 5 for n produces 3, 7 and 31, all
] prime -- but the math quickly becomes overwhelming for
] larger values.

World's largest known prime number found

] The Grokster case gets heard today in the Supreme Court.
] One of the tactics the music industry has used is to
] throw down the plight of the starving working musician.
] It plays on the emotions, personalizes the impact of
] piracy, replacing the corporate victim with reconizable
] face.
]
] Except, of course, that its all a lie. Consider this
] Congressional testimony:

Nice testimony clip. I am glad this kind of thing has been said, spelled out, in such unambiguous language in a formal (Congressional) setting. It is a pity that the Congress probably isn't influenced by it, but this is the kind of thing to point to to the non-tech people to counter the starving artist concern.

I mean, that and iTunes. It should be pretty obvious to anyone that getting a record on iTunes for cheap, with a good profit sharing, can be a very viable alternative to whatever the RIAA claims to offer.

The Big Picture: Is There an Upside to Downloading?

] The average amount of time that Americans spend listening
] to recorded music annually has dropped significantly over
] the past 7 year

The Big Picture: Americans tuning out recorded music

] I recently developed a system that uses a 100 watt CO2
] laser in combination with a CNC table to cut 1/8th inch
] thick carbon or stainless steel.

Hot! dlb, catwood and I discussed something like this; this guy actually did it.

CNC Laser Cutting

] the new psp game wipeout pure apparantly comes with a
] full featured web browser that is used to download
] updates. normally it's restricted for that purpose
] alone, but roto sent me a line this morning saying that
] it could be hacked to function as a general web browser
] with a little dns trickery.

hackaday on your playstation portable - hack a day - www.hackaday.com

] Next time you drive pass a pedestrian stepping off a curb
] and think, "100 points," you can thank Roger
] Corman's 1975 movie "Deathrace 2000" for
] your wickedness. Now, director Paul W.S. Anderson
] ("Alien vs Predator") will write and direct a
] remake of the cult classic, which starred Sylvester
] Stallone and David Carradine. "Deathrace 3000,"
] Anderson says, will be set in 2020 and feature
] "heavily-armed Escalades, Ferraris and Aston
] Martins." In other words, a typical night on the 405
] in Los Angeles.

'Deathrace 2000' Remake in the Works : Jalopnik

] OK, it is time we had a listing of all the prominent tech
] articles related to search and IR.

Collating Search and IR Technical Papers | Threadwatch.org