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* [Wired Science][1] has some info on how theories of particles in fluid-dynamical flow can be used to solve such mundane problems as traffic congestion. Fascinating read.
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/01/safety_on_the_j.html "Safety on the Jamarat Bridge"
* Table of Malcontents is [enthusiastic][2] about the first trailer for Danny Boyle's new sci-fi click, *Sunshine*. I watched the trailer over the weekend and while I want it to be good, I don't know, I'll hold off judging until I see the file, but what's up with the music in that trailer?
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/01/the_sun_is_dyin.html "The Sun is Dying -- Preview for Danny Boyle's New SF Flick"
* 27B Stroke 6 brings more [bad news in world of copyright][3]. U.S. courts decided not to allow orphaned works into the public domain. An orphaned work is copyrighted material "for which there is no longer a commercial life, and no discernible owner. It's otherwise out of print or unavailable, but no one can re-issue it, because no one can find out who they need permission from to re-issue it." So essentially everyone loses. Way to go U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/01/kahle_v_gonzale.html "Circuit says copyright orphans stay orphans"
* Last week I got an email announcement from Other Music that mentioned something about selling music online. I assumed that would mean DRM and so I ignored it, but luckily Listening Post's Eliot Van Buskirk is less cynical than me and he actually read the announcement. Turns out that [Other Music][5] is selling DRM-free MP3s at up to 320 Kbps. Sweet. Elliot has an [interview with the owner][4] of the world's greatest record store and its new online venture.
[4]: http://www.wired.com/news/columns/listeningpost/0,72523-0.html "A Real Music Store Sprouts Online"
[5]: http://www.othermusic.com/ "Other Music"
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For the iTunes component of that equation, Grooveshark is promising DRM-free MP3 downloads at under 99 cents a song. According to a [press release][2] the company put out a couple weeks back:
>Visitors can browse songs uploaded by other members and pay to download MP3 files with no digital rights management (DRM) technology. Songs vary in price, but cost no more than 99 cents. Grooveshark will pay appropriate royalties to copyright holders by taking commissions from users' transactions and also compensate users with free music for community participation such as uploading songs, fixing song tags, flagging unwanted files or reviewing music. Members will be rewarded based on their level of contribution to the community
As with Last.fm you create a profile complete with playlists and other info and then share it with your friends. You can join public groups and discover new music through listeners with similar tastes.
Grooveshark will begin beta testing sometime later this quarter.
Grooveshark sounds promising, but then so did that fat your body doesn't absorb and look how that ended. Hopefully Groove Shark won't suck, but we'll have to wait and see. I signed up for the beta so we'll be sure to keep you posted.
[found via [Torrentfreak][3]]
[1]: http://www.grooveshark.com/ "Grooveshark"
[2]: http://sev.prnewswire.com/computer-electronics/20070109/LATU03009012007-1.html "Grooveshark press release"
[3]: http://torrentfreak.com/grooveshark-to-offer-legal-p2p-alternative/ "Grooveshark to Offer Legal P2P Alternative"
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Table of Malcontents [cited][1] our Friday post on [Linux distros][2] as what Table sarcastically calls an "exciting, ultra-journalisticky" story. I'll agree that comparing Linux distros isn't exactly, uh, fun and, in an effort to be spared in Table's impending "armed uprising against the entire Wired News organization," We bring you Joke for Nerds.
Today's Joke for Nerds is [Get A First Life][3], the genius Second Life parody from Darren Barefoot. It's just one page and there isn't much to say about it, but enjoy. And remember in First Life you can "fornicate using your actual genitals." Cool.
Maybe this humor thing will be a daily thing, maybe not. And yeah maybe we did steal the tag-line from [Ze Frank][4], so?
[1]: http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/01/guns_for_girls_.html "Guns for Girls, Weapons for Women"
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/01/compare_linux_d.html "Compare Linux Distros"
[3]: http://www.getafirstlife.com/ "Get A First Life"
[4]: http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2007/01/012207.html "Ze Frank: The Show"
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The decision to merge the previously separate entities is part of an effort to consolidate and re-organize open-source software development and enable it to compete more effectively against Microsoft.
(Note that those first two links will begin redirecting to the third soon; as of this writing all three are in a state of transition so YMMV.)
[1]: http://www.freestandards.org/ "Free Standards"
[2]: http://osdl.org "Open Source Development Labs"
[3]: http://www.linux-foundation.org/ "Linux Foundation"
Jim Zemlin, formerly FSG's executive director, will head the Linux Foundation and the new group has the backing of I.B.M., Intel, Hewlett-Packard and other major corporations heavily invested in Linux as an alternative to Microsoft Windows.
The Linux Foundation's goals include improving backwards compatibility within Linux distributions and to provide legal protection for Linux kernal developers.
Most open source supporters agree that Linux needs a single standard specification for application developers, which is one of the Linux Foundation's primary goals. The foundation hopes to improve interoperability between the various Linux distributions.
As it stands now, Linux software developers often are forced to modify their applications so they can run on different distributions.
The Linux Foundation plans to continue many existing OSDL and FSG projects, including the [Portland project][4], which seeks, among other things, to bridge the KDE and GNOME GUIs. Other areas the foundation will be helping to organize include software packages, system update tools and software packages.
The hope for organizers, and their corporate backers, is that the Linux Foundation will become the the primary source for Linux development, similar to the way the Mozilla Foundation is the heart of browser development or the Apache Foundation is central to server development.
The one-stop-shop approach will also help Linux provide an organized front in its drive to overtake competitor and chief rival in the desktop market, Microsoft.
[4]: http://portland.freedesktop.org/wiki/ "The Portland Project"
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According to the lawsuit, Richter, who was previously sued by Microsoft and settled out of court, either phished MySpace accounts himself or or bought phished accounts to target with his spam campaign.
The lawsuit alleges that Richter "arranged for millions of spam 'bulletins'" to be sent from MySpace users' accounts without their knowledge by gaining access to them illegally.
This is probably the one and only time you'll read this on this blog, but, go MySpace.
[1]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2007-01-22T202842Z_01_N22474380_RTRUKOC_0_US-MYSPACE-SPAM.xml&src=rss "MySpace sues e-mail marketer for spam messages"
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* Apple [faces a new lawsuit][1], this one from Quantum Research Group who claims the iPod's click wheels infringe on their patents. The lawsuit was actually filed way back in December of 2005 but have kept quiet about it until now.
[1]: http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2007/01/22/40565/Apple+faces+patent+claim+over+iPod+touch+sensor+technology.htm "Apple faces patent claim over iPod touch sensor technology"
* Microsoft's Zune music service could [launch in Europe][2] by the end of the year.
[2]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2007-01-21T175515Z_01_L20750742_RTRUKOC_0_US-MICROSOFT-ZUNE.xml&WTmodLoc=TechNewsHome_C2_technologyNews-2 "Microsoft could launch Zune in Europe by end 2007"
* Popular blogging tool Wordpress has [updated to version 2.1][3]. New features include: autosave, a new tabbed editor that allows you to switch between WYSIWYG and code editing, lossless XML import and export, spell checking and much more.
[3]: http://wordpress.org/development/2007/01/ella-21/ "WordPress 2.1 'Ella'"
* And finally, TSIA: [Giant Space Invaders scene visible from space][4].
[4]: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/22/giant_space_invaders.html "Giant Space Invaders scene visible from space"
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* Farecast, the airfare prediction site, has opened a new service that lets you [lock in low fares][5]. For 10 dollars you can "protect" the lowest fare from your search for the next week. If the fare rises, you pay only your protected, low fare.
[5]: http://www.farecast.com/fareGuardPromo.do "Farecast Fare Guard"
* Google wants to do for books what the iPod did for music. The secret labs over at Google are [cooking up a system][2] that would let readers download entire books to their computers in a format that they could read on screen or on mobile devices such as a Blackberry. Call me skeptical, but I don't think eBooks are gonna catch on any time soon.
[2]: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2095-2557728,00.html "Google plots e-books coup"
* IBM will be [introducing][3] a set of social networking services that functions like "a MySpace for office workers" later today. The software, dubbed Lotus Connections, offers "the business equivalent of Web meeting places like MySpace" as well as tools "similar" to del.icio.us and Technorati together in one package. Hmm. So they've released a bunch of stuff that already exists.
[3]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2007-01-22T054216Z_01_N21365125_RTRUKOC_0_US-IBM-WEB.xml&src=rss "IBM renews Microsoft rivalry with new Web software"
* From Reuters: "Merlin, the new agency representing the world's independent music sector, has agreed to a deal with digital music company Snocap which will allow its labels' music to be [sold from Web sites][4] such as MySpace."
[4]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2007-01-22T145801Z_01_L21669802_RTRUKOC_0_US-MYSPACE-INDEPENDENTS.xml&src=rss "Independent record labels sign MySpace deal"
* TSIA: [The web 2.0 name generator][1].
[1]: http://www.lightsphere.com/dev/web20.html "Generate Wacky Web 2.0 business names"
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Wikipedia has [experimented with nofollow][3] in the past and the community voted against it, but as Wikipedia continues to grow it becomes an even bigger spam target. Spammers looking to raise their page rank via inbound links continually spam Wikipedia using robots, spiders and even hand editing to get their links onto the site.
Wikipedia's decision to use the nofollow attribute in outbound links may deter some of the link spam since having a link with nofollow doesn't help page rank which is the spammers main goal.
The <code>rel="nofollow"</code> attribute was in fact designed for exactly the reasons that Wikipedia has implemented it. Google [recommends][4] the tag be used in any situation where users may post public links that cannot be trusted, such as wiki-style editable pages or blog comments.
Unlike the "robots" meta tag which resides in a page's header and tells search engine robots not to *follow* any links in the document, the rel tag does not stop Google's spiders from following the link, it merely tells them not to count the link when calculating the linked page's ranking.
Naturally not everyone is happy with Wikipedia's decision.
Critics of the move claim that it will do little to stop spam and argue that it hurts legitimate sites, who may lose search engine ranking, more than it hurts the spammers. Additionally some bloggers are upset because they feel Wikipedia owes its popularity in part to the bloggers who linked to it.
But most of these criticisms don't hold much water, particularly the shrill cries of but-we-made-you-what-you-are from bloggers threatening to add nofollow attributes to all their Wikipedia links.
If I remember right, links were created for humans to get from one page to another, so regardless of what Wikipedia's links may mean for page rank, the links still serve their intended function.
[1]: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2007-January/061137.html "Nofollow back on URL links on en.wikipedia.org articles for now"
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard#Globalwarming_awareness2007.2FSEO_world_championship_--_expect_a_spam_onslaught. "Globalwarming_awareness2007 Spam Campaign"
[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Nofollow "Wikipedia history of nofollow"
[4]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html "Google Blog on nofollow"
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WriteRoom bills itself as "a full-screen, distraction-free writing environment," which is apt since it straddles the line between word processor and text editor in terms of formatting features, but the focus is really the full screen editing mode.
In full screen mode it is indeed just you and your words -- no distractions. But even in full screen mode, you can still access menus, the menu bar, scroll bar, and word count appear when you move your mouse to the edge of the screen, much like DVD player and other full screen apps. The escape key returns you to the normal editing mode.
You can pick your choice of background and text colors in the preferences pane as well as control the width and height of the editing portion of your screen.
There are also a number of plugins available to further extend WriteRoom's capabilities. Plugins listed on Hog Bay's site range from Mail export scripts to Growl support for word counts.
WriteRoom can also install a plugin that adds a universal "Edit in WriteRoom" menu item to other application's edit menu. Very handy if you end up deciding you love WriteRoom, since with one keystroke combination you can jump from any program over to WriteRoom.
Depending on what sort of writing you're doing that may or may not be helpful. When working on articles for wired or posts for this blog I'm constantly flipping between my editor, my email client, RSS reader and web browser which makes WriteRoom's full screen mode less than ideal, useless in fact. I like to see the browser window in the background with an press release on it.
But later in the evenings, when I write for my own site or work on other projects, I find WriteRoom's appeal easier to understand. I'm not going to suggesting that WriteRoom can replace emacs or Vi(m) in fact though I've had it for over a year I rarely actually open WriteRoom, but when I do I'm always glad I did, if for no other reason than the pure black background reminds me to clean my screen every now and then.
WriteRoom is $25. Windows users can check out [Dark Room][3] which is pretty much the same thing, but made for Windows.
[1]: http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/ "Hog Bay Software"
[2]: http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/product/writeroom "WriteRoom"
[3]: http://they.misled.us/dark-room "Dark Room"
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