Thursday, September 09, 2004

Bounty for asking "How many times have you been arrested, Mr. President?" World's Shortest Blog is offering a bounty to the first person to publicly pose the following question to the erstwhile President: "How many times have you been arrested, Mr. President?" They're accepting PayPal donations to drive up the size of the bounty, which currently stands at $854.29. In the event of no award being given, the funds will be turned over to the DNC. Link (via Electrolite) (merci, Cory!) 10:53:45 PM    comment []

Students, college face off over Wi-Fi. University of Texas bans students' private Wi-Fi hot spots, saying they block access to a campus wireless network. [CNET News.com] 10:50:17 PM    comment []

Longhorn to put squeeze on gadgets. The next version of Windows will let companies block access to iPods and other tiny storage devices, News.com has learned. [CNET News.com] 6:55:56 AM    comment []

Facing the Copyright Rap. Including snippets of another artist's song in your work -- a popular rapper technique known as 'sampling' -- may violate copyright law, an appeals court rules. [Wired News] 6:55:50 AM    comment []

EDITORIAL. The closing of lots I, J and K at night raise safety concerns but not convenience concerns for students. Student safety is a legitimate worry. No one should feel uncomfortable walking to his or her car at night, especially if the walk is a long one. But besides that, students simply don't understand how good the parking situation is on this campus compared with other schools. [The Journal] 6:48:50 AM    comment []

Mark Cuban, soon to be of The Benfactor fame in addition to his celebrity billionaireness and NBA Dallas Mavericks mogulhood, talks smack back to Donald Trump, of Trump Hotel Trump Casino Trump Bottled Water and The Apprentice fame, on the subject of their respective reality shows, in a post titled, "Donald please...". 6:48:04 AM    comment []

WiFi goes rural. Huge it is. The network is 10 times larger than a proposed citywide Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity) network in Philadelphia -- one that media reports last week inaccurately said would be the largest in the world. Covering parts of Walla Walla, Columbia, Franklin, Benton and Umatilla counties, Columbia Energy's 1,500-square-mile Wi-Fi hot spot is bigger than the state of Rhode Island. [Smart Mobs] 6:42:37 AM    comment []

Scoble: "Terrabytes of bandwidth were being used up by RSS." [Scripting News] Dave also reports: Adam Curry found a Torrent file for The Daily Show on the closing night of the RNC. I clicked the link, and got the whole show. Great stuff. 6:42:29 AM    comment []

Tucows's ethical expired domain auction [bOing bOing] 6:38:29 AM    comment []