Saturday, July 19, 2003

Register: "The [RIAA] confirmed that it was serving subpoenas at the rate of 75 a day." [Scripting News] 7:43:45 PM    comment []

Yet Another WiFi Detector. This one is profiled in Gizmodo. (Thanks, Peter) [Smart Mobs] 12:16:06 PM    comment []

More Corn Cam! 9:16:22 AM    comment []

RIAA Legal Defense Handbook /N July 19, 2003. Spam [Cryptome] 8:03:36 AM    comment []

"ZOGBY SHOCK POLL: Bush Job Performance Slips to 53% Positive, 46% Negative; More Voters Say It's Time for Someone New Than Say He Deserves Re-election..." Zogby poll of 1,004 likely U.S. voters. The only positive performance rating is for the war on terrorism (59 to 40), with foreign policy, health care, environment, taxes, and jobs and the economy all at 50% negative or more. (In fact, only foreign policy is at 50%; the others all exceed 60% negative.) Pointer by way of Daypop Top 40. 7:56:16 AM    comment []

Cory points at How the Nerds Were Having A Perfectly Good Time Until The Businesspeople And Lawyers Showed Up And Ruined Everything, saying Lisa Rein is slowly uploading her footage from last month's ILAW conference. She posted a real prize today: Jonathan Zittrain and Terry Fisher's talk: "Domain names - How the mess came about" or "How the Nerds Were Having A Perfectly Good Time Until The Businesspeople And Lawyers Showed Up And Ruined Everything." Brilliant stuff. [bOing bOing] 7:50:27 AM    comment []

Another update on a story reported yesterday: Writing to the President, Now at Easiertofind.com. The White House Web site began featuring the president's e-mail address more prominently after receiving an unusually high number of visits. By Matt Richtel. [New York Times: Technology] 7:45:57 AM    comment []

Oh, and I should mention that in the "cool-hunters" thing by Rothstein that I blinked last night, he gets wrong in the first two words the name of the main character in Pattern Recognition. The Paper of Record. All the news that's fit to print. First two words, I tell you. 7:41:49 AM    comment []

France Bids Adieu to 'E-Mail'. The French government strikes another blow for linguistic purity, decreeing that 'e-mail' -- that English bastardization of 'electronic mail' -- shall be replaced with the more Gallic-sounding 'courriel.' [Wired News] 7:37:41 AM    comment []