Open Source Networked MP3 Player
The MP3Elf is a pretty cool device. It’s an open sourced design for a networked MP3 player. It uses a TINI Java based microcontroller that is in a SIMM pa...
Tag: Media
Telco Panel on DRM Called “A bunch of girls”
This just makes me want to cheer! “Why are you such a bunch of big girls?” asked Birch. “Why don’t you tell the content owners to just g...
The RIAA is at it again
RIAA Says Ripping CDs to Your iPod is NOT Fair Use Fuck you RIAA! Time to write your congress-critters again. Sigh. Can we just drop a nuke on the RIAA headquar...
Yay! Senators are starting to figure out DRM issues
From BoingBoing: The Senate Commerce Committee’s hearings on the “Broadcast Flag” and “Audio Flag” proposals have been derailed be...
The Extended Edition of Dune?
What are they thinking? The original version was more than two hours of suckage. Roger Ebert gave it one star and says: “It’s like a dream,” m...
File this under “Irony”
The Motion Picture Assn. of America, the leader in the global fight against movie piracy, is being accused of unlawfully making a bootleg copy of a documentary ...
iTunes Server for Linux
Nate at work turned me on to MT-Daap – a Daap server for Linux. Daap is the protocol that iTunes uses for sharing your libraries. MT-Daap runs as a daemon...
Hurra Torpedo Rockumentary
I can’t decide if this is for real or not. There is a video out there in the mighty intarweb of a “band” from Norway called Hurra Torpedo. The...
Going to need more space…
I’m starting to rip my CDs onto the Openfiler box and I think I have a problem. I have about 130GB of space available for MP3s. I have about 500 CDs. Each...
An interview with Terry Pratchett
SciFi.com has an interview with Terry Pratchett – the writer of the Disc World books. Link