Archive for the ‘Entertainment’ Category
Thursday, September 28th, 2006
Do you rack up miles flying around all year? If you've accumulated 2,000,000 miles on Virgin Airlines, you could exchange your miles for space flight when Virgin Galactic makes its maiden voyage in 2009. To put that in perspective, that would be the equivalent of 125 round trip flights ...
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Monday, April 25th, 2005
http://www.trackertrail.c...andchocolatebar
Finally, my poor dietary habits serve me well.
If you are roughing it with a six pack of Coke and a bar of chocolate, and become disoriented during your sugar coma, you can polish the bottom of the can with the chocolate and use it as a lens to focus sunlight ...
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Friday, March 18th, 2005
http://fuware.nanocrew.net/pymusique/
iTunes DRM protected music doesn't start it's life off as 'rights managed'. Apple adds the DRM instructions to the file on the fly while the file is being downloaded to you.
What an opportunity! Jon Johansen has created a program which bypasses the DRM stage of the downloading process ...
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Monday, March 7th, 2005
http://www.gizmodo.com/ga...llet-035056.php
AllofMP3.com was under investigation recently, but has been let off the hook by the Russian DA of the South-West district, who denied IPFI’s request to open a criminal case against Allofmp3.com., because of a loophole in Russian law which allows users create copies of songs by request.
Even though the ...
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Tuesday, March 1st, 2005
http://blingosphere.com
After I read Josh Levin's little whinefest over on slate, I ignored the kvetching part, and focused on this lovely new coinage: 'Blingosphere'. That's lovely.
So lovely in fact, I hopped over to my favorite registrar and grabbed blingosphere.com. For now I have it pointed at a Blogger site, ...
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Monday, February 28th, 2005
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0,,2547,00.html.de
Deutsche Welle, Germany's government-run international shortwave radio station, broadcasts German language lessons for their worldwide audience. Recently, the lessons were made available for download from their website, along with an accompanying workbook as a PDF.
The BBC offers the same service in a number of languages including: English, Irish, Welsh, and ...
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Thursday, February 24th, 2005
http://abcnews.go.com/Tec...story?id=468496
Peter Jennings' is doing a broadcast on UFOs.
Did you hear that? Peter Jennings' is doing a broadcast on UFOs.
I respect Jennings. He regularly is a guest on The Daily Show, and he seems to be level-headed with a good sense of humor. But really-- UFO’s?
"UFOs -- Seeing ...
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