Off the airwaves, onto the web, nothing but link.
Archive for May, 2004
Freedom to Tinker
So instead of talking about copyright, I’ll let someone else do the talking.
Science & Tech. at Scientific American.com: The Myth of the Beginning of Time
An article at Scientific American.com on the subject of cosmology raises an interesting idea — String theory suggests that the big bang was not the origin of the universe but simply the outcome of a preexisting state. There are a bunch of other feature articles at the bottom of the page that are interesting too … check out the one about wolves at Yellowstone.
RIAA accounting practices considered harmful
Today’s Good Morning Silicon Valley has a heap o’ links about how RIAA bases their sales figures on distributor-to-store shipments and not POS figures. Seems that if you look at POS figures sales have actually increased. So there.
But …
It doesn’t handle <pre> blocks very well. Nor does it handle long words. Wrapping sucks. I shall endeavour to be clever. (and fail, oh yes)
Oh well, as they always say, it’s the endeavour that counts in horseshoes.
Hatemail
It seems that I am a twit. The presence of an email address has resulted in (*gasp*) spam. So I changed my template a tiny, wee, bit.
