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Tuesday, October 26, 2004 |
Howard Stern v. Michael Powell on radio show call-in line
BoingBoing reader douglips says,
This morning, Ronn Owens interviewed Michael Powell on KGO radio in the bay area. About 15 minutes after starting the interview, Howard Stern called in. Fur flew.
ASX Link, Real Audio link, and MP3 Link (thanks Erik) Howard kicks in at 32:20 or so into the streams.
Update: BB reader cowicide says, "I noticed your new mp3 download is pretty huge for most people. This might help people out who aren't on broadband: Small (680KB) file, edited to just air Howard's part of the show. Link." Thanks, cowicide!
[bOing bOing]
8:28:53 PM 
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Why is Bush outsourcing his bulge?.
Forget the firestorm over stolen Iraqi explosives. The Bush Bulge continues to be the real talk of Washington. Today the president tried to lay it to rest once and for all on ABC's "Good Morning America," by confessing, "I'm embarrassed to say it's a poorly tailored shirt." This was a new version of an earlier blame-the-tailor line of defense offered by the Bush-Cheney campaign, which pointed the finger at a suit coat malfunction. The problem with this explanation, of course, is that the presidential tailor in question turned out to be French -- a man with the classically Gallic moniker, Georges de Paris. And that instantly raised a troubling question in red-state America: what the hell is red-blooded George W. Bush doing outsourcing his tailoring needs to some Frenchy named Paris? And why does he need to go overseas when Paris is obviously less skilled at producing a smooth-fitting jacket -- or shirt -- than any off-the-rack designer at Bloomingdale's? The headache for the White House only got bigger when the Hill ran a photo of Paris, who was revealed to be an eccentric-looking gnome of fellow, with a shocking white cascade of curls that put one immediately in mind of, well, a French poodle. A miniature one. Unless the president enjoys being made to look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame (written by another Frenchman) by incompetent -- or perhaps malicious -- Parisian gnomes, it's time for Bush to bring this American job back home.
[Salon.com]
8:25:41 PM
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Three from BNA News:
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KERRY WOULD CONSIDER ALLOWING BACKUPS OF DIGITAL MEDIA
According to a questionnaire of the presidential candidates
posed by the Computing Technology Industry Association,
Senator John Kerry would consider an amendment to the DMCA
to allow backup copies of digital media.
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INTERNET USERS HAVE FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY
A study by America Online and the National Cyber Security
Alliance reports that 77 percent of 326 adults in 12 U.S.
states assured researchers in a telephone poll they were
safe from online threats. Nearly as many people felt
confident that they were already protected specifically from
viruses and hackers. However, the survey found that most
consumers had no firewall protection, outdated antivirus
software, and dozens of spyware programs secretly running on
their computers.
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JUDGE TOSSES FLORIDA E-VOTING PAPER TRAIL SUIT
U.S. District Judge James Cohn has ruled that Florida does
not need to create a paper record for touch-screen voting
machines if recounts are needed in tight races, upholding
Florida's emergency rule that set standards for e-voting
recounts. The judge held ruled that touch-screen machines
"provide sufficient safeguards" of constitutional rights by
warning voters when they have not cast votes in individual
races and allowing them to make a final review of their
ballots.
10:39:47 AM
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LAMP and Regulatory Arbitrage.
Today, MIT's LAMP system goes back on line, with a new design. LAMP ("Library Access to Music Project") streams music to the MIT campus via the campus cable TV system. Any student can connect to LAMP's website and choose a sequence of songs. The chosen songs are then scheduled for playing on one of sixteen campus TV channels.
According to MIT, transmission of music via LAMP is legal because it is covered by music licenses that MIT has purchased in connection with the campus radio station. In other words, LAMP is just like another set of sixteen campus radio stations that happen to be controllable by MIT students across the Web. I don't know whether this legal argument is correct, but it sounds plausible and MIT appears to stand behind it.
You may recall that LAMP launched last year but was shut down a few days later when copyright owners argued that LoudEye, which had sold MIT digital files to use in that incarnation of LAMP, did not have the legal right to sell those files for such uses.
Now LAMP is back, with the original design's efficient digital back end replaced by a new setup in which an array of low-end CD jukeboxes are controlled by special computers. This allows LAMP to get its music from ordinary CDs, as many radio stations do.
(Continued at Freedom To Tinker) [unmediated]
7:24:40 AM
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