[ Thinking about jumping into BioTech now that your IT jobs are gone? Might want to reconsider...

-k]

Testing the offshore waters / Biotech firms experiment with moving work overseas

[ As my boyo alan said :

10 HELL
20 GOTO 10

Such excellent blasphemy. -k]

JESUS CHRIST ACTION FIGURE TV COMMERCIAL

DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS
DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS
DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS
DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS

[ Awesome! -k]

DomoKun Developers Video [WMV]

[ Sometimes I wish I had this much free time on my hands. Who am I kidding, like I would spend it doing something rediculous like this. --Baud ]

[ Fucking rad, if insane. -k]

Albino Blacksheep / Flash / Hosting - Windows Noises

[ Hm, suddenly I feel like I need a belt sander... -k]

SATISFACTION

[ Tim O'Reilly offers a cogent and reasonable defense of GMail, which echoes a lot of the feelings I've been having about all the uproar. He mentions the one thing that I consider the fundamental argument which is "DONT USE THE SERVICE IF IT CONCERNS YOU!" Why the fuck should the government get involved here? If you're worried about your privacy, don't sign up... simple is that. If no one signs up, they fail, market forces have taken care of the problem. I certainly don't think the market can be left to decide everything, but this is definitely one where it can, and should.

Besides that he makes a number of good points, and thankfully points out some of the benefits that could come out of the service, which I think is getting lost in all the froth and misplaced vitriol. -k]

O'Reilly Network: The Fuss About Gmail and Privacy: Nine Reasons Why It's Bogus [Apr. 16, 2004]

] U.S. radio broadcasters have asked federal regulators to
] bar rival satellite radio services from offering content
] tailored to local markets, according to a petition
] obtained on Friday.
]
] The National Association of Broadcasters, which
] represents radio conglomerates like Clear Channel
] Communications Inc. , filed the request due to concerns
] the up and coming satellite services are trying to
] replace local radio outlets.

[ Awww, poor Clear Channel, I forgot the government is supposed to protect your virtual monopoly. Boo hoo hoo, bitches. Fuck you. -k]

Broadcasters seek ban on local satellite radio Broadcasters seek ban on local satellite radio Broadcasters seek ban on local satellite radio

]
] Now it's getting interesting. BayStar wants SCO to
] immediately redeem BayStar's 20,000 shares of SCO's A-1
] Convertible Preferred Stock. They say SCO has breached
] their agreement. SCO denies any breach. Here is the
] agreement that they are fighting over. Here is the press
] release. My, this was a short honeymoon.

BayStar is basically telling SCO they want their $20M back.

[ HA! Fuck you BayStar! You bet a lot of money on a very, VERY uncertain outcome (SCO beating IBM) and only then realized you'd tied yourself to a ship that's this close to a major iceberg impact, followed by flooding and lamentations and SINKING.

It was a risky speculation, investing in a company as, uh, tainted, as SCO, and they got hosed. Even if suits are brought, SCO may not even exist long enough to be served by them. Painful, but, man, I wonder if selling off those shares before demanding redemption was an option... SCO was at 9.66 this morning, it's at 8.40 now... that's a 13% drop. I see no good outcome for SCO or for BayStar. -k]

Baystar Sends SCO a Letter

] Democracy and freedom are coming to business, says Tom
] Malone. And it's all because of technology.

[ Very interesting article... ties together a few memes that've been percolating for a while. Very much worth the quick read...

-k

p.s. wtf is with the "apprentice" in the title? I surmised, and was then proven right, that the word was just to grab attention, given the popularity of the show. Nothing in the article referenced TrumpTV at all.

The Future of Work: An 'Apprentice'-style Office?

] A former English professor who teaches executives how to
] write, Mr. Brown, 59, calls "Intimacies" a digital
] epistolary novel, or DEN, terms that he has trademarked.
] The plot of "Intimacies" is based on "Pamela," the
] 18th-century work by Samuel Richardson that is one of
] Western literature's first epistolary novels. It is the
] format of Mr. Brown's work rather than its story that
] makes it postmodern: it is meant to be read with the aid
] of a software interface designed by Billy McQuown, an
] employee at Mr. Brown's consulting firm, Communication
] Associates.
]
]
] The story unfolds through e-mail messages,
] instant-message conversations and Web sites, all within a
] window generated by the DEN software; the program can be
] downloaded free from Mr. Brown's Web site,
] www.greatamericannovel.com.

[ I know from some past (and fairly spirited) discussions here on MS, that reading, and the various forms of content publication, is a popular issue. This struck me as a fairly innovative development, though I'm not sure it's one that appeals to my already well-aired predilections.

The article discusses the use of email conversations as a story telling mechanism, which isn't particularly unique, of course, but the first of them that i read, called Exegesis, was definitely worthwhile.

Anyway, I memed it more for the fact that it's a software based novel, which speaks to the possibility of more interactive storytelling in the near future, perhaps. -k]

The New York Times | Technology | Circuits | Call Me E-Mail: The Novel Unfolds Digitally