] This morning, the DC Circuit of the US Court of Appeals
] struck down the loathsome Broadcast Flag, ruling that the
] FCC does not have the jurisdiction to regulate what
] people do with TV shows after they've received them.

Great news!

Boing Boing: V-TV DAY: WE WON THE BROADCAST FLAG FIGHT!

Hosted by Bill Butler, Scott Kozicki and Tim Moses, this show aims to discuss new and interesting technology on a weekly basis. This show is based in Nashville, TN.

Bill and Tim were founders of Telalink, which was one of Nashville's first ISPs in the early 90s. Bill now runs Butler Networks (www.butler.net) and Tim runs Monster Labs (www.monsterlabs.com)

Scott was founder of BlueStar, an early DSL provider in the southeast headquartered in Nashville. Scott is currently the CTO for American Healthways (www.americanhealthways.com)

Tech Tuesday

] Two small explosions went off in a large cement planter
] outside a building housing the British Consulate on Third
] Avenue in Midtown Manhattan early today, causing some
] property damage but no injuries.

Small Explosives Go Off Outside British Consulate in Manhattan

Blog Nashville is this weekend. Only 19 slots left if you want to attend. Don't register unless you're serious, as there really are only 19 slots left. However, Dan Gillmor, Dave Winer, and Mark Glaser will be there, among others.

Rattle and Decius will be in attendance representing Industrial Memetics and MemeStreams.

BlogNashville

] It's no surprise then that we can now confirm what the
] super-intelligent if somehat wobbly hacks at Vulture
] Central have known for years: alcohol makes you cleverer.

I'd like to accept this Nobel prize on behalf of my friends at Guinness and Bass...

File under: excuses

Beer makes you clever: official

] For more than 4,000 years humans have used locks to
] secure some of their most private places and prized
] possessions. And for just as long, other humans have been
] trying to find ways around them.

] Now, videogamers, hackers and others who just enjoy a
] good challenge, are coming out of the woodwork - or
] hiding in it - and adopting lock picking as their
] new hobby of choice.

ABC News: Lock Picking for Sport Cracks the Mainstream

... just what the title says.

"Ma'am, we're not going to go down there and enforce your Western Bacon Cheeseburger."

Recorded off Howard Stern show.

California women calls 911 over Burger King drive-up mistake [MP3]

] Spring Commencement Shifts to Georgia Dome
] May 7, 2005 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
] Georgia Dome
]
] The 221st Commencement of the Georgia Institute of
] Technology will take place Saturday, May 7, 2005 at
] 9:00AM. This spring commencement will be held at the
] Georgia Dome in Downtown Atlanta. It will include both
] graduate and undergraduate students.

] Woo-hoo! Acidus and I are finally get out of this hellhole!

Congrats!!

Georgia Institute of Technology :: Campus Calendar & Events

] Bush demands deep cuts in Social Security benefits
] World Socialist Web Site - 47 minutes ago
] By Bill Van Auken. President Bush used a rare prime-time
] nationally televised press conference Thursday to open up
] a campaign for cutting Social Security benefits and ultimately
] dismantling the country's principal old-age pension system

I just noticed an article on CNET about Google filing a patent for its news ranking technology. I figure this would be as good time as any to point out one of Google News's greatest bad-picks. Notice the top story on this page, and read the article. The World Socialist Web Site had a pretty unique take on Bush's last press conference in the East Room.

Google News to get patent in news ranking

] Solipsis is a pure peer-to-peer system for a massively
] shared virtual world. There is no server at all: it only
] relies on end-users' machines.
]
] The shared virtual worlds of nowadays MMORPG strongly
] rely on privately owned servers. These servers are an
] expensive bottleneck that limits their scalability. In
] addition, these servers bound the freedom of the virtual
] world inhabitants and the imagination of the
] world-builders and developers. Solipsis solves these
] problems with a free and open-source system.
]
] Solipsis is a public virtual territory. The world is
] initially empty and only users will fill it by creating
] and running entities. No pre-existing cities, habitants
] nor scenario to respect...
]
] Solipsis is open-source, so everybody can enhance the
] protocols and the algorithms. Moreover, the system
] architecture clearly separates the different tasks, so
] that peer-to-peer hackers as well as multimedia geeks can
] find here a good place to have fun !
]
] The best approximation of what could be Solipsis in a
] near future may be Neal Stephenson's Metaverse.

Interesting.

Development is being lead by France Telecom's R&D division.

Solipsis: A peer-to-peer system for a massively multi-participant virtual world