He has some good points. Any thoughts, nerds?

Seth Nickell on Replacing the Aging Init Procedure on Linux - OSNews.com

With the exception of the hyper-philosophical stuff at the beginning, this guy wrote damn near the exact paper i've been meaning to write for months. Kudos to him. It's long, but so far (3/4 through) very very worthwhile, if only because he actually found (and then typed) the words i was searching for.

New Modes of Musicianship...

] Commentator Rush Limbaugh resigned Wednesday night from
] ESPN's Sunday NFL Countdown amid a firestorm that erupted
] over the controversial statements he made this past
] weekend about Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan
] McNabb.
]
] Later Wednesday, the National Enquirer and New York Daily
] News reported that Limbaugh was under investigation in
] Florida for illegally buying and abusing prescription
] painkillers.

LMAO!!!

] "My comments this past Sunday were directed at the media
] and were not racially motivated. I offered an opinion,"
] Limbaugh said in a statement released by ESPN. "This
] opinion has caused discomfort to the crew, which I
] regret.
]
] "I love NFL Sunday Countdown and do not want to be a
] distraction ... Therefore, I have decided to resign," he
] said.
]
] "We accept his resignation and regret the circumstances
] surrounding this," said George Bodenheimer, president of
] ESPN and ABC Sports.
]
] Limbaugh said Sunday that McNabb received undeserved
] credit for his team's success that came from media
] outlets with "social concern" and "very desirous that a
] black quarterback do well."

Who the hell at ESPN woke up one day and decided "Ya know, America isn't subjected to enough of this blow-hard on the airwaves as it is. Lets expand his soap box and make him a sports commentator."

Weird.

LB

Limbaugh quits NFL show amid race flap

] The aim of the Molecular Media Project is to use cells
] and atoms to perform useful computational tasks at
] the micron (10-6m) and/or nanoscales (10-9m) of
] organisation. The Molecular Media Project is
] principally concerned with exploiting polymer and
] colloidal nano-agglomeration or biotechnology for
] new media applications. Digital data in the form of (i)
] still image, (ii) text, (iii) motion pictures and (iv)
] sound have all been modified at the micro/nanoscale.
] This research overlaps chemistry, physics,
] microbiology, computer science, mathematics, performance
] art and design.

Cause glitches with yeast. What a concept.

Molecular Media Project

] MOST electric vehicles work by connecting the wheels to a
] motor. But tomorrow a Dutch company plans to unveil a bus
] in which motor and wheel are one, a refinement that
] promises more miles per charge and a vehicle that is
] safer and easier to maintain.

I always thought this would be smart, though i was never convinced of the economic advantage. you sure better not smack into a curb too hard, b/c that's gonna be one expensive wheel replacement. still, sounds nice, and eliminating all those gears is probably good.

With a Motorized Hub, the Wheel on the Bus Goes 'Round

] John Ashcroft came under increasing pressure Thursday to
] recuse himself from the CIA leak investigation, with one
] senior Republican senator saying the attorney general
] should consider doing so.

seems like a good idea to me. not that i don't trust john ashcroft.

er.

oh wait, that's right, i don't. at all. my bad.

CNN.com - GOP senator: Ashcroft should consider recusal on leak probe - Oct. 2, 2003

i'll reserve judgement on that 'til i see it, but boy do i ever want to.

the blender reviewlet indicated that there would be 'evisceration' at the hands of katana-weilding Uma Thurman. So, yeah, i'm there.

Ananova - Kill Bill is feminist statement, says Tarantino

] It may be that SCO is taking the position that merely
] because XFS is also distributed along with IRIX it is
] somehow subject to the System V license. But if so, this
] is an absurd position, with no basis either in the
] license or in common sense.

SGI shoots back at SCO

Building on the paper poseted yesterday...

This is what i've been predicting for a couple of years now. As musicians start to be able to make high quality records on cheap equipment, the need for huge labels will decrease rapidly. the majors make bubble gum mass market crap for the most part, and exist to promote it, but they're ancillary to the process. If they vanished, the marketing would happen anyway, by the coolhunters at MTV and so on. at which point a viable method for individual artists (i.e. no label affiliation necessary) and indie labels to sell music electronically, and cheaply, increases the exposure people get to new music substantially.

when your production costs are low, you can sell for less and make more, and make a living as a musician, rather than try to play the rock star game.

Wired News: The Incredible Shrinking Studio

hey, LL, you're talking to congress... take off the stupid hat.

MTV.com - News -LL Cool J, Chuck D Take Opposing Sides At File-Sharing Hearing