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EMI is reporting that the sales results for its DRM-free music are better than those with protection.

Since EMI ditched the DRM on iTunes it has seen sales of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon increase by between 272 and 350 percent….

Since EMI ditched the DRM on iTunes it has seen sales of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon increase by between 272 and 350 percent.

craigslist with youtube embeds… embedded video. these people are going to get killed with hosting costs…

steve said “the iphone will not have the baby internet!” real webpages. so, what happens to all those mobile optimized websites? oh, now they are called “applications.” bullshit.

“The images on the screen were of magnified brain tissue from her son, the former Pittsburgh Steelers offensive lineman Justin Strzelczyk, who was killed in a fiery automobile crash three years ago at age 36. Four red splotches specked an otherwise tranquil sea — early signs of brain damage that experts said was most likely caused by the persistent head trauma of life in football’s trenches.

“Strzelczyk (pronounced STRELL-zick) is the fourth former National Football League player to have been found post-mortem to have had a condition similar to that generally found only in boxers with dementia or people in their 80s….

“Mary Strzelczyk granted permission to [neuropathologist, Dr. Bennet] Omalu and his unlikely colleague, the former professional wrestler Christopher Nowinski, to examine her son’s brain for signs of chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Nowinski, a former Harvard football player who retired from wrestling because of repeated concussions in both sports, has become a prominent figure in the field after spearheading the discovery earlier this year of C.T.E. inside the brain of Andre Waters, the former Philadelphia Eagles defensive back who committed suicide last November at age 44.”

“With Zimbabwe’s economy spiralling out of control, high unemployment and one of the highest HIV rates in the world, people in the diaspora can literally provide a lifeline.

“Zimbuyer says their service - which at the moment attracts about 10 customers a day - is a way around this for Zimbabweans abroad who are loath to send money back at the official rates.

“Last week, the black market rate was Z$29,000 to US$1 - compared to the long-standing official rate of Z$250 to US$1. This week, the black market rate for the US dollar has risen by Z$4,000. “

In this game, each character’s actions affect the journey of at least one other character. If a man asks for your help and you refuse, you may find yourself later playing that man and having to solve a problem on your own. Choose a path that causes something to collapse and another character will have one avenue of escape cut off. Raw Danger illustrates that every decision can have consequences for others.

A customer picks a personal slogan and a unique keyword, which Reactee prints on an American Apparel t-shirt. The user gets the t-shirt and flaunts it. Anyone interested in knowing more about the slogan or its wearer can text the keyword to 41411, and will get an immediate response as set by the wearer, who also receives a copy of the message including the sender’s cellphone number. description from springwise

Wii Media Center X is a free multimedia server developed by Red Kawa. It allows you to stream certain types of pictures, music, videos and files from your computer (where the server running) to your Nintendo Wii. It runs on most major operating systems including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

sweet band that won a battle of the bands in pgh. 4 cellists won over the rock crowd, which is pretty amazing. also, tate olsen, one of the members, is awesome. the nicest guy ever.

allows you to record pandora. bags ‘em, tags ‘em, sends ‘em to itunes. slick. legal?

FOREIGN POLICY: So, just how international is the sport of competitive eating?

George Shea: The Nathan’s hot dog-eating contest and the International Federation of Competitive Eating (IFOCE) are kind of like a new United Nations, bringing nations together in peace. Eating knows no political or geographic boundaries….

FP: People say Kobayashi is the best competitive eater of all time. Is he really that dominant?

GS: You have to understand that until Kobayashi came along, the winners ate between 20 and 25 hot dogs in the 12-minute competition. Everything changed when he came over in 2001. He ate 50 hot dogs that year. Here was this sweet, 22-year-old kid who had the body of an acrobat. It blew my mind. He was playing at an entirely different level. Everyone was shocked.

As the 5-foot-7 Mr. Kobayashi chomped and swallowed his way to dominance, the sport rose with him, with 1.5 million people watching on ESPN last year as he set a record at the World Cup of competitive eating, Nathan’s Famous hot-dog contest, eating 53.75 hot dogs and buns (HDB’s). Joey Chestnut, an upstart American who was only 1.75 HDB’s behind, shattered that record over the weekend at a contest at the Arizona Mills Mall in a Tempe suburb. He put down 59.5 HDB’s in 12 minutes.
The performance, which earned him a $250 mall gift card, brought new hope that an American would end Mr. Kobayashi’s, and Japan’s, grip on the Coveted Nathan’s Famous Mustard Yellow International Belt.

If President Bush and Vice President Cheney can blurt out vulgar language, then the government cannot punish broadcast television stations for broadcasting the same words in similarly fleeting contexts. Skip to next paragraph Related Text: Decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals (June 4, 2007) Readers’ Opinions Share Your Thoughts
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Post a Comment That, in essence, was the decision on Monday, when a federal appeals panel struck down the government policy that allows stations and networks to be fined if they broadcast shows containing obscene language.

Ask tested Ask3D on 5 percent of the 25 to 30 million users in the U.S. over the last six months. “Their query abandonment went down, and the number of picks into content went up,” Lanzone said. “Other search engines give you lots of links and leave you for dead.” from dan farber, zdnet

A rumor flying around physics departments these last few weeks claims that physicists working at the Tevatron, an accelerator located outside of Chicago, have found something new. Originally passed by word of mouth and private e-mail, the rumor made it into the blogosphere May 28, with an anonymous comment on the blog of a particle physicist living in Venice, Italy. Since then, the rumor has spread.