Another Bloody Week!

Hiro: You!
Hiro: Me!






argh!

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No ratings parade for return of "Heroes" @Yahoo! news

Quote of the day

"If you want to be happy, be."
- Henry David Thorreau

Into the Woods - Hello, Little Girl

"Hello Little, What's your rush? You're missing all the flowers!"

Monty Python - SPAM

SPAM! SPAM! SPAM! SPAM! SPAM! Wonderful SPAM!

I need your help!!

I'll be buying a Guinness* for everyone who helps me win this contest!

Thank you!


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*The Guinness can be exchanged for a normal drink of your choice, but, most likely, I'll drink the Guinness

Quote of the day

Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull.  It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all.  Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosaic, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill. 

- Henry Louis Mencken

Are You Ready To Make The Big Jump?

Googls Apps are now part of my daily life and everyday I see how more and more people are starting to use those wonderful tools. But I also share the fears of many eTools users: Servers Down or Lack of Internet conection. I've been online since 1996 and I can't say how important the Internet is for me and all my daily activities. But trust me, it would be difficult to spend one week offline.

I invite you to discover Calore's adventure. Here a link to the full article.

Livin' la Vida Google:
A Month-Long Dive Into Web-Based Apps
by Michael Calore

Are Google Apps ready for prime time? For the last month, I've been working exclusively in the browser, replacing all my desktop apps with Google's web-based alternatives -- Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs & Spreadsheets and so on.

What's Happening to Our Lovely Cult?

Apple is no longer the Apple of old.

Read the full commentary by Leander Kahney here

The Apple Store used to be a geek hangout: somewhere you could happily mingle with fellow Mac nerds. These days, it's full of teenage mall rats and iPod noobs.

Quote of the day

"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices
suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear
something terrible has happened. "

- Obi-Wan Kenobi

Quote of the day by Kurt Vonnegut

"I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool."

Kurt Vonnegut Jr., American writer famous for his imaginitive satires, died yesterday.


Sally In The Garden:

Sally in the garden,
Siftin' through the cinders,
Lifted up her arse,
And farted like a man,
The busting of her britches broke fifteen windows,
The cheeks of her ass went (bam, bam, bam)

Jane Monheit - Waters of march

And for those who don't understand Portuguese and/or love beautiful women:

Here's the lovely Jane Monheit!

Águas de Março!

I think that this song is much more than just a Happy Song for me... It brings back me memories from my childhood... I love this song!

Photogamer: Challenge #8

Welcome to Challenge #8, as described at photogamer.com !

This week, Hilary's niece (Sara) and her boyfriend (Dan) helped out with the planning of the challenge. And they're going to play for the first time! We love new members at photogamer! Many of you will be spending the holiday weekend with loved ones. Why not get them involved? It's all kinds of fun!

Challenge #8:

Take five photos of people/places/things that can be described as:

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And here are my photos! Visit my Flickr! for more photos.

Glowing


Artsy


Moving


Empty


(RED)

The 10 Real Reasons Why Geeks Make Better Lovers

I'm taking a coffee break (I'm doing stuff in the garden) and reading my feeds and my twitter. This article form Wired cuaght my eyes... It's so bloody true!
Girls, go and grab a geek!

(do you have my gmail?)

Here's a teaser,and here the link to full article

Geeks get things done

Geeks know all the shortcuts. They research your interests, send you surprise gifts, plan your perfect vacation, get the bills and grocery shopping out of the way, write to their mothers, and tease you mercilessly, all while pretending to work. And when you ask them to set up your home Wi-Fi or install a home theater, it's done quickly, expertly and without complaint.

In other words, geeks know how to get everything else out of the way so there's more time for lovemaking.

Quote of the day

"There is no black or white - only 254 shades of grey."

- Chris Pirillo

Quote of the Day

"Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration."

- Thomas A. Edison

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Quote of the day

"Only Jobs has the power and the cojones to make such a move."

- Leander Kahney

Wired: Cult Of Macintosh: How Steve Jobs Calls the Tunes

EMI and Apple: DRM Free

I haven't seen the conference, but I've been in touch with many twitters and I've been getting email updates on my cellphone (from where I'm posting this) and all the fuzz around this announcement started up my brain.

Well, what does all this mean? Well, a couple of months ago, Steve Jobs posted a public letter where he made many statements but the most important for all this debate was the fact that ever since CDs came out to the public, they were a good-quality free-of-copy-control way to distribute music. This has been true for the last 20 years. Big media makes a lot of noise saying that we are thieves (cf. The lovely CEO of Universal Music on the launch of MS Zune) and on piracy. What Big Media has not yet realised is the fact that we, the users/consumers of media, have the power to choose and enjoy whatever entertainment we want. And this power has been returned to the audience thanks to the Internet (A good example: Bum Rush the Charts).

Today Apple and EMI are announcing that the entire catalogue of EMI will be available on the iTunes Store DRM-free. This will cost more than the usual 99 cents but it means that this songs could be used in any Device, in opposition to the actual iTunes-iPod-MacTV only DRM system that Apple has been using since the launching of the iTunes Store.

From an economic PoV, this announce will indeed bring profits to EMI (I'm not that sure that Apple makes real profits from the iTunes Store) and will open the market to another marketing model.

On the other hand, this is a mayor decision for Apple. DRM-free songs mean that they can be used in any device. I'm not sure that the iPod's market share will change radically after this announcement but, however, this may change in a near future. DRM has always been the downside of online stores and online music services . The incompatibility between different standards have produced a bad effect on online sales. Users want to use and play the music they buy online everywhere they want, just as they did with tapes and just as they do with CDs.

This first step of a mayor record label will open the dialogue between online music service and record labels. My only hope is that those big 3 will listen to their consumers and will focus on music not on trials or attacking us, those who buy music.

I'll make another post once I've read/seen the announcement/conference.

Edgar Barrera

10 ans dejà...

Happy 10th Anniversary to
Dave Winer’s Scripting News!