February 7, 2004

Ashamed to be an American. In my week off I realized I'm ashamed to be an American. Why is it not OK for Janet Jackson to show her boob on national TV, but it's OK for our military to show live killing of Iraqi military on TV? Our society is screwed up. By the way, I want some compensation. I hurt my thumb on my Tivo remote control's rewind button. Heh. I wish my Tivo had a zoom control. :-) Speaking of which, why is it OK for General Motors to make hundreds of millions of dollars off of pornography (do you realize who owns the satellites that deliver most adult videos) but it's not OK for Janet Jackson to show her boob? Why is it OK for two out of every 10 entertainment dollars to be spent on adult entertainment in this country, but it's not OK for Janet to show her boob in a wide shot that was only on TV for a second? (Even after multiple rewinds on my 32-inch TV, I couldn't really tell if Janet had actually revealed her boob -- if it weren't for all the Internet sites like Drudge that showed high resolution pictures the next day, I still would be guessing). Oh, I notice that DirectTV is now delivering high-definition adult videos (and started right after the Super Bowl). Our society is so messed up. It's OK to show our kids hundreds of murders per year on TV, but it's not OK for them to see a part of the human body. I'm ashamed to be an American this week. [The Scobleizer -- Celebrating the Geek lifestyle] 6:00:59 PM     Yikes, I agree with Scoble, I have not bought a tech magazine in 5 years, too expensive and not current! Same applies for digital photo mags! What happened to the tech magazines?. Alan Meckler, CEO of Jupiter Media, asks "Have you noticed how painfully thin the few remaining weekly tech magazines are these days?" Why yes! I haven't read one of those magazines in paper form in more than a year. Why is that? The blogosphere tells me what's important to pay attention to in a far better format. In fact, I read Jon Udell at InfoWorld and Steve Gillmor at eWeek everytime they post. In my news aggregator. [The Scobleizer -- Celebrating the Geek lifestyle] 5:58:09 PM     Be Our Netalentine Vote for Still Running & Change Our Lives! Be Our Netalentine- Vote for Still Running & Change Our Lives!!!   "Souls in Rhythm" band WE SUPER NEED YOUR HELP!!!! help us get a record deal, album produced and a music video!!!!     You can help us win the grand prize in Vibe 98.5's UNSIGNED VIBE contest! We are 1 of 5 finalists. The grand prize includes a record deal, a produced album, a music video for the first single and a national tour!!!   ***Beginning Monday Jan 17th, through to Feb. 13th - listeners can vote for Souls In Rhythm's song "STILL RUNNING"  by one of three ways!   #1. 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Quazal has launched a new service called Rendez-vous - a lobby service - for on-line gaming. Welcome to the world of on-line gaming and social software. These folks at Quazal offer an on-line gaming 'state' engine (called Net-Z), as well as MMOG (massively multi-player on-line game) infrastrcture technology (called Eterna.)  Now they've complemented their product line with a social networking kind of 'lobby service'. Totally coolio! Provided Services Authentication: manages player logins and ensures the integrity and confidentiality of data sent across the network. Secure Connection: establishes a secure connection between two stations. This connection may be made either directly or routed via a secure station, which is usually the server. In conjunction with the Authentication service this service creates a secure transport layer. Account Management: enables players to create lobby account(s) and allocates various access rights. Matchmaking: enables players to search for and locate various gatherings in order to participate in game, competition, tournament, chat, or forum sessions, for example. Competition: manages the organisation and outcomes of matches played between players as well as pertinent statistical values concerning any given competition. Friends: enables players to classify their relationship with other players and to create categorized player lists, e.g. Friend, BlackListed. Messaging: enables players to send messages to each other in much the same way as e-mail. Persistent Store: enables players to download content from and upload content to the lobby. Peer: this service is provided by one client to another and enables messages and station specific information to be shared between the two stations. Cluster Management: monitors and controls configuration of the ensemble of lobby services. This service is accessed by the lobby administrator via the Rendez-Vous management console. Players do not use this service. I wonder if they know anything about Apple's Rendezvous Probably not.  What a great example of folks in the gaming world - nothaving a lcue on what's going on in the PC world.  Probably doesn't matter though. As a coinkidink - this sort of matching, management, tournament stuff is.... (ooooops gotta shut up now.) [Marc's Voice] 10:12:51 AM

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