] What is SkypeIn and what are the plans for it?
]
] SkypeIn will allow phone calls from the traditional phone
] network in to Skype. We don%u2019t have a specific launch
] date yet, but hope to offer it sometime this winter.

I've been using SkypeOut for a few months now. It is the bomb. It is cheap. They finally came out with a beta for OS X that has a dialpad on it. SkypeIn will totally release me from my rediculous cell phone bill.

The Engadget Interview: Niklas Zennström - Engadget - www.engadget.com

] They interviewed a total of 7,868 people in 988
] households. But the relevant sample size for many
] purposes%u2014for instance, measuring the uncertainty of
] the analysis%u2014is 33, the number of clusters. That is
] because the data from individuals within a given cluster
] are highly correlated. Statistically, 33 is a relatively
] small sample (though it is the best that could be
] obtained by a small number of investigators in a country
] at war). That is the reason for the large range around
] the central value of 98,000, and is one reason why that
] figure might be wrong. (Though if this is the case, the
] true value is as likely to be larger than 98,000 as it is
] to be smaller.) It does not, however, mean, as some
] commentators have argued in response to this study, that
] figures of 8,000 or 194,000 are as likely as one of
] 98,000. Quite the contrary. The farther one goes from
] 98,000, the less likely the figure is.

Economist.com | 100,000 Iraqi deaths

] First, since it is a "default", it makes some sense that
] there is only one of them (whatever it is). There are
] some systems that feature multiple default routes, but
] these are typically either routers, supporting complex
] route maintenance protocols, or systems that use more
] than one default route in a sort of round-robin scheme
] (called multipath routing) to balance traffic through
] multiple routers. Mac OS X/Darwin does not support more
] than one active default route.

Okay OS X guys... how do you get OS X to do this? I want to get two USB wireless cards and pool me and me neighbor's wireless connections into one big fat ass pipe.

Any ideas?

Networking Configuration for Mac OS X/Darwin

] I took a taxi to the front, introduced myself to the
] local commander, who had gone, as I recall, to Iowa
] State, and spent a couple days waiting for the impending
] human wave attack. That attack was to be conducted
] primarily with 11-and 12-year-old boys as troops, nearly
] all of them unarmed. There were several thousand kids and
] their job was to rise out of the trench, praising Allah,
] run across No Man's Land, be killed by the Iraqi machine
] gunners, then go directly to Paradise, do not pass GO, do
] not collect 200 dinars. And that's exactly what happened
] in a battle lasting less than 10 minutes. None of the
] kids fired a shot or made it all the way to the other
] side. And when I asked the purpose of this exercise, I
] was told it was to demoralize the cowardly Iraqi
] soldiers.
]
] It was the most horrific event I have ever seen, and I
] once covered a cholera epidemic in Bangladesh that killed
] 40,000 people.
]
] Waiting those two nights for the attack was surreal. Some
] kids acted as though nothing was wrong while others cried
] and puked. But when the time came to praise Allah and
] enter Paradise, not a single boy tried to stay behind.
]
] Now put this in a current context. What effective limit
] is there to the number of Islamic kids willing to blow
] themselves to bits? There is no limit, which means that a
] Bush Doctrine can't really stand in that part of the
] world. But of course President Bush, who may think he
] pulled the switch on a couple hundred Death Row inmates
] in Texas, has probably never seen a combat death. He
] doesn't get it and he'll proudly NEVER get it.
]
] Welcome to the New Morality.

Teh Cringely

PBS | I, Cringely . Archived Column

HOPE 5 Audio Transcripts

http://www.the-fifth-hope.org/hoop/5hope_speakers.khtml

H2K5

] COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- An error with an electronic voting
] system gave President Bush 3,893 extra votes in suburban
] Columbus, elections officials said.
]
] Franklin County's unofficial results had Bush receiving
] 4,258 votes to Democrat John Kerry's 260 votes in a
] precinct in Gahanna. Records show only 638 voters cast
] ballots in that precinct.

Holy Fuck, Batman!

CNN.com - Glitch gave Bush extra votes in Ohio - Nov 5, 2004

His tenor and falsetto tell you of the complicated emotions harbored by an acutely perceptive blues musician in the denigratory South; so does his guitar playing, which amazingly often mixes leads with chords. Johnson's thematic lyrics -- further bespeaking his restlessness, fatalism, and defiance -- are stately in their imagery.

P: Checking this out...

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The Complete Recordings of Robert Johnson

If you don't get it, you just don't Get It.

This four-CD box set marking the 100th anniversary of Louis Armstrong's birth contains some of his most groundbreaking, historic works.

Recorded when Armstrong was emerging from the influence of his idol, Joe "King" Oliver, these discs feature the main staples of the Armstrong canon. The jewel of the collection is "West End Blues," with Armstrong's stratospheric, pyramid-structured solo, which ranks as one of the greatest in the history of music. The sessions also mark an important technological breakthrough, with the transition from acoustic to electrical recording.

All in all, this set shows that Louis Armstrong's heroic talents enabled him to become the alpha and omega of 20th century music.

From Rhapsody's Artist Snapshot:

"The Reverend Satchelmouth is the beginning and the end of music in America." So said Bing Crosby, and how right he was, because Armstrong is the single most important figure in twentieth century popular music.

If there's an artist who wasn't directly influenced by his astounding improvisations, and most importantly, his phrasing, then he was influenced by those who were.

Armstrong did more with time, nuance, and personality than whole armies of musicians.

But forget about influencing others -- if his music doesn't fill you with tingles of joy and delight then you just may be dead. And don't fret if you are six feet under; Pops will be serenading you in heaven. For how can there be a heaven without Louis?

I anyone finds a working torrent, please post it up.

Complete Hot Five & Hot Seven Recordings

] Asked whether helping sub-Saharan African countries gain
] a bigger share of the globalization pie was in the best
] interests of the West, he said there was indeed an
] overriding interest on the part of the West despite the
] expected shift of jobs from the West to those developing
] markets.  The outsourcing of jobs from the United States
] to India had resulted in a near-doubling of bilateral
] United States-India trade, contributing to economic
] growth.

Thomas Friedman at the United Nations

] (CNN) -- Osama bin Laden delivered a new videotaped
] message in which he told Americans their security does
] not depend on the president they elect, but on U.S.
] policy.
]
] "Your security is not in the hands of [Sen. John] Kerry
] or [President] Bush or al Qaeda," bin Laden said in the
] video aired on the Arabic language network Al-Jazeera.

Bin Laden comes out for... Nader?

CNN.com - Bin Laden: U.S. security depends on policy - Oct 29, 2004