Monthly Archives: June 2004

More Japanese Ice Cream

June 30, 2004 – 9:24 am

I got all excited about some unappealing Japanese ice cream flavors when I found the story in Mainichi Daily News a while ago. I thought the lineup of fish, octopus, squid, ox tongue, sweet potato, fried eggplant, crab, corn, rice, wasabi, shrimp, eel, noodle, chicken wing, miso, and cactus flavored ice cream had everything pretty [...]

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More About Clie TH55

June 25, 2004 – 12:04 pm

PalmZone has a nice story about the TH55 with a number of links to software, updates and more information. What everybody should appreciate is the link to the Clie Movie Recorder.
I thought I was so smart in an earlier story when I linked to the Google query I used to find this file. That [...]

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Beef T-Shirts Rock

June 24, 2004 – 5:43 am

Beef t-shirts coming back: it was quite a while ago now that my Cafe Press shop was the top Google result for beef t-shirt. Worse, I haven’t linked to the shop from MaisonBisson for a while either. So it was something of a surprise to discover that the products are still selling. Yes, real people [...]

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This Is Copyrighted?

June 23, 2004 – 7:03 am

Defense Tech is reporting that the Warner/Electric/Atlantic conglomerate of music labels gave up its defense in a copyright case against their artist Wilco. It seems Wilco sampled from Irdial-Disc’s compilation of recordings from mysterious radio stations that everybody expects to be related to espionage (and clearly emanate from government buildings and embassies). Nobody argues that [...]

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Nauset Beach Panoramas

June 21, 2004 – 7:54 pm

More photos from MaisonBisson
Taken Monday morning, around 5:30, before getting on the road to return to New Hampshire.
Troy and Karen were kind enough to invite me to the Cape for the weekend, where I generally lazed about and did nothing. We did take in a double feature at the Wellfleet Drive-In (don’t miss the picture) [...]

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The Letter Not Sent (re: LPFM, NPR, NHPR, complaint)

June 15, 2004 – 11:05 pm

I was going through my files and found this unfinished letter to NHPR, my local National Public Radio affiliate, regarding the FCC’s proposed licensing of community-based low-power FM radio stations (LPFM). My point was (or it was going to be) that NPR was afraid to compete against other non-profit stations. NPR paints itself as an [...]

By Casey | Posted in Politics & Controversy | Comments (0)

Comment Spam

June 14, 2004 – 10:32 pm

First I was amused to see comments, then somewhat angered to discover they were spam, then amused again to find that comment spam etiquette requires that it be gratuitously patronizing.
Then I struggled to decide if I could delete the comments without feeling like I was censoring free speech. My solution (and it’s sort of [...]

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Foiled

June 9, 2004 – 9:06 pm

Troy has this image of a tin-foiled cubical on his blog. It comes from Servers Under the Sun and is interesting enough. Now that I’m checking his blog regularly, I’m sort of wishing he’d update more often (not that he doesn’t have a lot of interesting stuff in archive).
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Six Months of 2004

June 9, 2004 – 8:48 pm

Books:
The Art of Deception
Asmara
Bloody Saturday in the Soviet Union
The Cockpit
Dangerous Waters
Face to Face With the Bomb
Flight
The Iron Triangle
Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
The New Roadside America
Parting the Desert
Reefer Madness
Small Things Considered
States of Emergency
An Underground Education
Wireless Hacks
Audio Books:
Bushwacked
In a Sunburned Country
Re-Reads:
Divided Highways
The Race
The Real Las Vegas
I should be keeping notes about these as I [...]

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AllConsuming.net

June 7, 2004 – 6:59 am

AllConsuming.net aggregates book mentions on the web, mostly in blogs. Assuming bloggers can be trusted, the AllConsuming stats can show a lot about what people are reading and talking about. David Sedaris’ new book Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim is ranking with 22 mentions today and 15 the day before (or, that’s what [...]

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Faces

June 6, 2004 – 3:59 pm

Richard Coniff writes in the January 2004 Smithsonian magazine about the work of UC San Fran prof Paul Ekman and his study of faces. It carries pictures of a work by artists Bill Viola and his wife Kira Perov.
Yeah, sure, the face is capable of 43 movements expressing 10,000 different expressions. Yeah, Bill’s work is [...]

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Sun’s Little Marketing Problem

June 4, 2004 – 6:38 am

Sun had to make changes. They’re (or were) getting their butts handed to them in the mid-range and entry level server markets, so those changes had to come fast.
There was a time when the top of their low-end server lineup was the V480 with four UltraSparc III CPUs in a 4U rack enclosure. Trouble is, [...]

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How Copyright Law Changed Hip Hop

June 2, 2004 – 1:25 pm

Kembrew McLeod’s story about How Copyright Law Changed Hip Hop in Stay Free! Magazine is an interesting tale of how copyright kills culture.
In the mid- to late 1980s, hip-hop artists had a very small window of opportunity to run wild with the newly emerging sampling technologies before the record labels and lawyers started paying attention. [...]

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