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The whole of the Internets are atwitter with chatter and analysis about Steve Jobs’s “Thoughts on Music” essay published yesterday on the Apple website. “Is it a challenge to the major record labels? An answer to the increasingly hostile European governments (Norway, France, Germany) that are pressuring Apple to “open up” the iTunes Store? A…
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Cool… just found these Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP – a bunch of small upgrades for different parts of the windows interface – I just installed the Alt-Tab replacement – an upgrade to the regular Alt-Tab function that adds a preview of the application you’re switching to. Also interesting looking: Tweak UI, Virtual Desktop Manager…
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Wal-Mart launched their new video download service today, and boy does it suck. Here’s what it looks like in Firefox: Oh yeah also, they want you to pay $15 for a 320×240 video that won’t play on iPod, Zune, Mac, or Linux. Boooooooo.
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Launchy: The Open Source Keystroke Launcher for Windows – I was just doing some looking around for an application launcher for windows – because, let’s face it, the Start Menu sucks, and the Quick Launch bar just doesn’t cut it either… and so I came across Launchy, a free windows utility that indexes your applications…
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why we do what we do.
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Already?! Insane! Trent’s been working hard – this note found on the NIN website: “Is it possible I am actually finished writing and recording a new nine inch nails record? Apparently so. We begin mixing in January! Juggling fifteen all-new tracks around. Testing sequences. No leftovers from ‘with teeth’. Highly conceptual. Quite noisy. Fucking cool.”
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Science, religion clash over Canadian sextuplets – The parents of sextuplets born in Vancouver are in a fight with the Provincial government over the government’s intervention when the parents refused blood transfusions for their children because their religion forbids it. The government stepped in and took custody of the children so the doctors could do…
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Kevin Smith’s Top Ten Films of 2006
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CMCC Congratulates Industry on Unparalleled Growth in Electronic Music Sales Nielsen BDS numbers released January 17th show that Canada’s digital download market grew more than any major market in 2006. This exciting news has the Canadian Music Creators Coalition asking: “Why are the record labels still pushing for ways to sue Canadian music fans?” According…
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Yes, yes… Paris Hilton is a whore and… well, a whore. and all that stuff… so nothing in these pictures that have come out of ParisExposed.com are really news or anything, but what’s really impressive are the ones of this guy doing a massive pile of coke off his own chest. I’m no expert in…