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Napster is being shut down. Wednesday afternoon, U.S. District Court Judge Marilyn Patel granted the recording industry a temporary injunction to pull the service. This is certainly a bad sign of what is to come… Napster still has a shot at trial, but this injunction certainly reflects poorly on their defense strategy. Score so far:…
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Star Trek tech not far off? it seems Force Fields and ‘Plasma’ Sheilds are a near-reality. According to this story on space, “cold plasmas” are capable of shielding satelites and other spacecraft, or making them invisible to radars.
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The Illustrated Guide To Breaking Your Computer – yep, that’s right… the guide we’ve all been waiting for!
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So Napster gets its day in court today. The RIAA is seeking an injunction to shut Napster down citing copyright violations. Napster argues that it’s users are not doing anything illegal, but that the file-swapping falls under “fair use”… I think they’ve got a chance- it would be nice to see the music industry on…
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Great role model: “I will never pay any dime of that verdict” O.J. Simpson told NBC’s “Today” show in an interview, referring to the $33.5 million a civil jury awarded to the families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman for his responsibility in their deaths.He was on the show to promote AskOJ.com, a website…
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It’s just occured to me that I didn’t put an e-mail link anywhere on this page… damn. For now, just use this [removed] until I can get one up in the nav bar. (lesson learned: don’t design web sites after 1:30am)
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Canadian World Domination? Don’t laugh… …ok laugh – it’s all in good fun. One of my favourite sites I’ve come accross lately. Lot’s of fun, and they have a great recipe for ribs to boot!
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This is my first entry on ‘blog by night’… I just finished setting up the site as of five minutes ago, so you won’t find much here right now… However, expect to see something to the tune of daily updates, in which I will post my thoughts about things going on in the world, as…