] For a quick and entertaining look at the benefit that perpendicular
] recording delivers, view our animation “Get Perpendicular”

And I may end up working for these people...

[ Says Engadget : "Your host, the “lonely little DAP,” leads you through this anything-but-dry musical adventure — let’s just say it involves disco and backup singers. We’d really like to humbly request that all companies send us press releases in this format in the future."

it's pretty surreal, but i'm all for it. -k]

Hitachi Perpendicular Recording

] MTV has begun beta testing a new content delivery system
] based on instant access to anything and everything
] entertainment related. Initially delivering six
] specialized "channels" to its Web-based platform.

Its possible that I might actually be able to get music videos in my house again for the first time in a decade. Unfortunately I am almost positive that MTV is going to fuck this up. Why can't I just stream MTV2?

[ Fuck m2. Why can't i have that Qwest commercial? I wan't to watch the vid for Toxic by Britney! Done. I want to watch Hudson Hawk! Done. I want to watch Episode 6 of The State! Done. That really cool VW commercial, NIN live, and then Toxic again! Done. Done. Done.

Until that happens, everything else is lame. -k]

BetaNews | MTV Takes to the Web with 'Overdrive'

] A Baltimore man tried to pay for a Best Buy car stereo
] installation with $2 bills -- and was arrested.
] Apparently the man was already upset with the Best
] Buy's service, so thought he'd stage a minor
] protest by using the uncommon currency

[ The full story at the anandtech forums http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=38&threadid=1562162&enterthread=y

The guy was apparently arrested because they thought that sequential 2 dollar bills was either a sign of counterfieting, or, somehow terrorism. The brain dead local cop alluded to high tensions in this post 9/11 world we live in. Goddamn lunatics.

Anyway, at this point everyone should already know what a massive piece of shit Best Buy is. I know a number of people who've gotten crappy service there and on top of that, their commission structure outright guarantees that some pimply kid is gonna try to sell you a TV or digital camera about 4 seconds after you walk thru the door. -k]

Best Buy Has Customer Arrested For Using $2 Bills : Gizmodo

[ April 1 is usually 100% lame, but this is a pretty good parody... the ads in particular. -k]

Boring Boring: A Directory of Dull Things

] The Department of Homeland Security's privacy board chose
] as its chairman Paul Rosenzweig, a conservative lawyer
] best known in technology circles for his defense of the
] Pentagon's Total Information Awareness project.

The new "privacy" board at DHS continues to sign up people with dubious credentials as privacy advocates. Lisa Sotto has an analysis of RFID in healthcare that seems to think implanting verichips in people is A-OK as long as you make them sign a "consent form" (without which you won't treat them). She seems to have missed the fact that I can use that 16bit identifier to track your movements regardless of whether or not I have access to the data.

It seems the new profession of "privacy adviser" is a little like tax accountant. Minimize the clients liability while enabling him to do as much as possible. Find loopholes. DHS seems to be hiring some of the best.

Their privacy board isn't about how they can respect privacy. Its about how they can violate it as much as possible without getting in trouble.

[ Awesome! -k]

Homeland Security panel picks controversial chief | CNET News.com

A provincial court later commuted the sentence to 15 years in prison.

[ God that's lame. It goes without saying that I'd be raging pissed. -k]

Jailed 'Killer' Freed After Wife Turns Up Alive

] Paul Hester, former drummer for Split Enz and co-founder
] of Crowded House, is dead after hanging himself in a park
] in Melbourne, Australia. He was 46.

[ Balls. -k]

Crowded House drummer Paul Hester commits suicide - Reality TV World - News, information, episode summaries, message boards, chat and games for unscripted television programs

] Sony said Monday that a court has upheld an earlier
] ruling by a California jury and ordered the company to
] halt sales of its PlayStation videogame console.
]
]
] The intellectual property lawsuit brought by Immersion
] Corp. covers technology used to make a controller to
] vibrate during game play, which Immersion claims Sony
] copied without permission.

[ wow. -k]

BetaNews | Sony Ordered to Stop PlayStation Sales

] Badly-executed logo for a pediatric center in Virginia.

[Yowza! The designer was either a jerk, or so mentally chaste that they never noticed the connotation. Fucking dolts. -k]

Boing Boing: Pediatric center's bad logo

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOM!

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