DudeAsInCool

Maybe some good will come out of it - the guy will have made some new good friends.

agreed

Once you've had a mac, you never go back Seriously, I dont know why anyone wouldn't get one, since it can play all 3 operating systems

Congrats on the new gig, Meehowski!

Damn. I was gonna buy a ticket

Children could be monitored for signs of criminal behaviour All children could face compulsory checks to discover if they are at risk of turning into criminals, the Prime Minister announced today. The controversial proposal came as part of a wide-ranging review of crime and security policy published by 10 Downing Street. It said the checks could take place at existing important stages in a child's life, such as the move from primary to secondary school. The Government's plan to prevent crime said: "Establish universal checks throughout a child's development to help service providers to identify those most at risk of offending. Source

FCC to Issue Findings in July on Whether Unused TV Airwaves Can Be Used for Web Service WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Federal Communications Commission is expected to release findings this summer on whether a new device can deliver high-speed Internet service over unused airwaves without disrupting television programming. Scott Blake Harris, the attorney for a coalition of technology companies that developed the device, said Tuesday the FCC is expected to issue its test results by July. He said the regulatory agency could then adopt final rules by October. Read More

TrueCrypt

Yep - everything is niche these days

Hmm...let me take a wild guess: "Fog overnight, locally dense. Mainly dry, warm, sunshine developing Wednesday A fine evening and clear start to the night for most but mist, fog and low cloud, already near some coasts, will become extensive again, some dense fog likely in places. Local frost inland where skies remain clearer. Minimum temperature 2 °C"

Music Communities and Intelligence Websites There are a growing number of social community music websites with a lot of functionality. HubPages lists 47 Web 2.0 music websites - if I missed anything below, you will probably find it HERE. Creative Commons • ccmixter is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons, where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want. MashStix - Mashstix offers up bootlegs and mashups. Music Communities Discover Music • Owl Music Search - Owl Multimedia, Inc. offers Internet music search and discovery solutions. Owl claims to be able to locate and catalog every song on the Internet, in order to help find new music that you will like. Click a song in your music player and Owl does the rest. • MusicIP - MusicIP provides music discovery and identification solutions for websites, software and consumer electronics devices. MusicIP allows people to rediscover forgotten songs in their digital music library and be introduced to new music based on the songs they already love. Pick a song, MusicIP Mixer puts together a playlist. MyDJ searches for similar songs on your music player, software or website. CherryPeel - CherryPeel is a music community where the members add music and vote on their favorites. "... Major labels, radio stations, and TV channels have been the only ones with the power to decide the artists and genres that get heard. CherryPeel's goal is to give the power back to the fans. • thesixtyone.com - Earn points as you upload and share your favorite songs in a social community setting • Mystrands and MyStrands TV is similar to LastFm and offers recommendations based on your tastes. Mystrands plans to expand its platform to cellphones. • Deezer is a community driven search engine. It can search for music and much more. Deezer will pull up multiple versions of a song if they are available. It also allows you to upload songs if you have an account. And you can imbed them in other websites. I also like its player and sound quality. • LastFM - You can post your favorite songs, see what your friends are listening to, hear new music, get personal radio, and recommendations based on what you are listening to. As of 1/23/08, you can stream full songs. • Mog - An online community that allows people to share their entire music and video collections online with the community, blog about them, and get recommendations from other tastemakers. • IMeem - Similar to LastFm, but their technology allows you to put flash videos and audio players on your favorite web sites. • FineTune - Finetune is a Flash tool which allows users to build playlists. The minimum playlist is 45 songs and you can have up to three songs per artist. Finetune also runs on the Wii. • iJigg - iJigg is a digg-esque music discovery service that allows users to vote on individual songs. The most popular rise to the top of the front page. The iJigg player can also be embedded on other sites so you can share it with friends. • TuneFeed - Similar to Imeem - it allows you to upload music, discover new music, videos, and share your tastes with friends. Their technology allows you to put flash videos and audio players on your favorite web sites • MusicMesh.net - MusicMesh is also an advanced music search engine. Type in your favorite artist's name and MusicMesh pulls up related albums and track listings, YouTube videos if they are available, user reviews, Wikipedia entries and other recommendations. MusicPortl covers pretty much the same ground, it's really a personal preference to which layout you prefer using. • Pandora is a personalized internet radio service that helps you find new music based on what you listen to and post. • Goombah searches your ITunes collection to see what kind of music you like and finds people that like your style, and makes recommendations from their collections. Share Your Music • SoundFlavor - Upload and share your music, and search for favorites at the website. • iLike - Allows you to share your playlists and library with friends, but according to one comment I saw, ILike doesnt play entire songs (correct me if I'm wrong). Works with iTunes and Windows Media Player The website makes use of a sidebar that is used with Apple's iTunes. Very popular at Facebook. • QLoud's MyMusic - Similar to iLike, Qloud's MyMusic provides allows ITune users to embed their music into social networks where they can discover and share with their friends. Like Mog, you upload your entire music library. Allows you to put tags to your songs. Available at Facebook, expanding into other social websites. • MediaMaster - Similar to QLoud's MyMusic, but without the tagging tool, but far more versatile - you can connect your library to your browser, cellphone, tivo and your stereo - and you can embed your radio player at your favorite social site. There may be upload limits of 400 songs temporarily due to technical issues... • MP3Tunes Oboe - Similar to MediaMaster in that it allows you to upload your collection and send it to multiple devices. • Sideload.com is a website that aggregates popular free music tracks on the web that have been sideloaded into Oboe, the online music locker from MP3tunes. You can quickly preview tracks and store them permanently in your Locker with one click! • Faces - An Australian app which allows you to upload various media and embed it elsewhere. • Simplify Media - Similar to QLoud's MyMusic and MediaMaster in that you share your music collection and see your friends favorites - it works both in ITunes and Winamp, and on your browser. • SoundPedia - A Singapore-based internet radio and music community website where recommendations are based on user voting count. Members can't download but they can create their own unique playlists and radio stations. • Trig is an online community that allows people to share mp3 streams and videos and images. Unlike Mog, you don't share your entire collection, but you can imbed the Trig player on selected websites. • Haystack - Post favorite songs, videos and reviews of your favorite artists in a blog, find music through friends and tastemakers, create radio playlists and send them to friends. In this system you make recommendations of other songs (they call it stacking) when you hear something you like. Formerly called BlogMusic - in Beta. • LaLa.com - Lala has expanded from a CD trading website, allows you to put your music online and share it, create your own online radio stations and send your music to your IPod. LaLa.com recently bought WOXY and offer up free shows from visiting artists at their website, as well as MP3s • BoomShuffle allows you to add and organize music into streaming playlists, and lets you embed your playlist in blogs or websites. BoomShuffle streams entire tracks, but only after you've added 15 or more songs. Support New Artists • TuneSquare - Allows new artists to post their music and make money when their music is played. • Project Opus - Similar to Tunesquare in that it supports new artists. The app allows you to embed music on other websites.

Watch your language - there are 'kids' in the house

Maybe he meant the peace sign?

Winners of the 2006 YouTube Video Awards include, top row, from left, OK Go’s “Here It Goes Again,” for most creative, and “Smosh Short 2: Stranded,” for best comedy; second row, “Hotness Prevails,” for best commentary, and “Ask a Ninja,” for best series; third row, “Say It’s Possible,” for best music video, and “Free Hugs Campaign,” for most inspirational. Read More NYTimes

Someone took down the video

Never heard about the murder suspicions. Should be interesting - perhaps the estate is looking for free publicity?

Done Seriously, I think I know I have Herbie Hancock's Headhunters and a couple Grover Washington's. If someone wants them, they are yours...I just have to go out to storage and get them - no idea what the quality is like Good luck on your Ebay sale

March 23, 2007 UK-based bespoke luxury goods creator Luvaglio has created the first million dollar laptop. That’s what the first of their luxury laptops will sell for. Full details of the laptop have not been released at this point, but it is known that it incorporates a 17" widescreen LED lit screen with a specially designed anti-reflective glare coating for clear and brighter image, 128GB of Solid State Disk space and a slot loading Blue-Ray drive. There is an integrated screen cleaning device and a very rare coloured diamond piece of jewellery that doubles up as the power button when placed into the laptop and also acts as security identification. Images here, video here. Luvaglio CEO Rohan Sinclair Luvaglio told Gizmag earlier today: “Unlike many of the highly priced products being released, we took our time to develop something out of the ordinary with real attention to detail. “ Read more at Gizmodo I don't like laptaps - so I ain't buyin'

I have several of these in storage - buy them from me instead. Top dollar or don't waste my time.

I'd trade him some sheepskin, but I'm afraid I'd have to hit you up, Red, for some of that

Well, both versions are interesting, but I prefer the cinematography and music on the second. Hadn't seen either, or heard the song, and I like Royksopp - so thanx for the heads up.

Happy Birthday, Tater!!!!! Hope you get fried :)

Apparently for some - sheep

Nice hat!