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This is cool. QT-3D virtual tour of Beale Street in Memphis.
“Friday night at the Tower Theater in Upper Darby, Saturday in New York City and Sunday in Washington, D.C.” Will there be more? Oh my. Link In related news, the “Mighty Wind” DVD has been released.
“When NBC’s White House drama ‘The West Wing’ returns next week for its fifth year, the most obvious difference from last season will be that John Goodman, not Martin Sheen, is calling the shots in the Oval Office as the famously liberal show gets more bipartisan.” Link
“In protest of budget and salary cuts, police are threatening to beg for money with tin cups at intersections and “work to the rule,” a move that would tie up more officers on each call.” Link
“On September 12, 2003, the New York Times defended the Recording Industry Association of America’s recent lawsuits against P2P music file-sharers [Suing Music Downloaders]. The editorial was based on a number of flawed concepts, which just goes to show that if the RIAA states something loudly enough and often enough, even the New York Times will accept it as fact. I thought the New York Times was trying to do a little more fact checking these days before printing stories out of school.” Link
“Iran put on show its new Shahab-3 ballistic missiles in a military parade Monday, with the rockets sporting slogans including ‘We will crush America under our feet’ and ‘Israel must be wiped off the map.’” Link
Microsoft is offering a new “update” that is really just a back-door DRM in disguise. From the install page: ‘Installing this client allows RM-aware applications to work with Windows Rights Management Services (RMS) to provide licenses for publishing and consuming RM-protected information.’ This, dubbed ‘Activation’, entails that ‘your computer will be automatically connected via the Internet … in order to create and save on your computer a system component that is associated with your hardware.’ Evil. Slashdot has more.
