] No -- future TV will may be unrecognisable from today,
] defined not just by linear TV channels, packaged and
] scheduled by television executives, but instead will
] resemble more of a kaleidoscope, thousands of streams of
] content, some indistinguishable as actual channels. These
] streams will mix together broadcasters' content and
] programmes, and our viewers' contributions. At the
] simplest level -- audiences will want to organize and
] re-order content the way they want it. They'll add
] comments to our programmes,programmes, vote on them and
] generally mess about with them. But at another level,
] audiences will want to create these streams of video
] themselves from scratch, with or without our help. At
] this end of the spectrum, the traditional "monologue
] broadcaster" to "grateful viewer" relationship will break
] down, and traditional advertising and subscription models
] will no longer be viable.

The director of BBC New Media on why MemeStreams is the future of Television. :)

TV's Tipping Point: Why The Digital Revolution Is Only Just Beginning: PaidContent.org

This is whack. Anti-American propaganda from North Korea. Worse then junior high schooler's rap. Entertaining regardless...

Fucking USA

This is a really good write-up on Elonka's adventures cracking the cryptic (literally) artwork of James Sanborn.

STLtoday - Woman sets sights on code on CIA sculpture

This is an interesting paper about how the architecture Google has created to manage their massive search index database.

Also worth noting, pages on MemeStreams are the first results for the search term "google filesystem", on Google. Ironic? Not really, its actually "Google File System", or GFS.

Paper on Google's filesystem

] Our mission at BitPass is to help the online world grow
] and prosper by making it easy and safe for spenders to
] pay and earners to charge for access to online content
] and services.

Tools for access control to resources like website content using micropayments. They say they have solutions for PHP, perl, mod_perl, asp.net, etc. They have this pre-paied card thing going on. You can start or add to an account in increments of $3, $5, $10, $15, $20, or $40. Website owners can charge as little as 1 cent for content. They take 10% cut on purchases under $5, 5% over $5.

BitPass Beta

San Francisco's voting results, according to CNN:

Recall: 20% Yes, 80% No.
Candidate: Bustamante 63% (134k), Schwarzenegger 13% (40k)

558 people voted for Gary Coleman.

] A Princeton PhD student has published a paper detailing
] the music industry's latest CD copy protection scheme -
] and how the technique can be bypassed by simply holding
] down the host computer's Shift key when a 'protected' CD
] is inserted.

Of course this was another dumbass scheme in the first place. There is *no way* to "fix" CDs and retain backward compatibility with the huge installed base.

The Register | Anotehr CD copy protection scheme fails

] You also have an incredibly overzealous vocal minority
] that thinks it still owns the Internet, and the
] anarchists that think everything should be free. And then
] you have everybody else that uses the Internet every day
] and doesn't know what ICANN is. I think this is a broken
] model that we have talked to ICANN and the Department of
] Commerce about.

No shortage of things to be angry about in this interview.

"The vocal minority that still thinks it owns the internet". Last I checked, the point was that no one owned the Internet. The problem is that VeriSign thinks and acts like they own the Internet. This vocal minority they speak of are the people who run the Internet, and develop its standards.

CRN Interview: Stratton Sclavos, VeriSign

This looks like the place to get results..

CNN.com Election 2003 - California Recall

] Republican gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger,
] left, strums a guiter as Twisted Sister lead singer Dee
] Snider, right, sings his song, 'We Ain't Going to Take it
] Anymore,' during a campaign rally held at the Capitol in
] Sacramento, Calif., Sunday, Oct. 5, 2003. The event was
] part of a four day bus tour the state before Tuesday's
] recall election.(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

I've been meaning to comment about the recall election today. Then I saw this picture... Wow.

I've met Dee Snider, somewhat recently too. I have nothing against Dee at all. I'm down with Twisted Sister. I liked Strangeland. Dee is another Jersey boy. We cool.. But, this just is not right. Something just isn't right. Its all gotten just a little to surreal. What next? What did I miss? (I only caught a chunk of this in a replay) Will the Beasty Boys come out? Break into Fight for your Right to Party. How very east coast it would all be.. Arnold rocking the SG.. Trying to anyway.

Well, here we go! Let the vote counting begin! Lets see how fucked up this election really is..

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