The Junkers drummer hurt his hand and so they're playing acoustic, and thus, first instead of last. Photos Of Being will have to rock the joint last instead.
We're in Beat magazine's news section for the 9th Ward gig. The power of email and a "press release" word document. It's that easy kids.
Sony discontinues Betamax. Digital technology is finally cheap enough and better-er than Beta. Funny thing is, I thought it died years ago.
I was thinking maybe 5,000 people would put "Jedi" as their religion on the Australian census. But 70,000 people? Eep! And this gets announced on CNN. That's 0.37% of the Aus population.
Of course the telcos are against the anti-piracy bills floating around the US at the moment. I'd bet 50%+ of their traffic is pirated material (ignoring p_o_r_n of course). And they're struggling now... OK, so that's a little harsh, Sarah Deutsch, VC of Verizon makes some good points explaining why the DCMA is a bad idea.
(all that stuff via Slashdot)
Our crazy government sees actual proof of a cure for paralysis and they think about cutting funding. Great. Don't dive into the water kids... (via The Age)
Microsoft "Corona", aka MS Windows Media 9. (via The Age) MS are hinting they're going to get their grubby hands into DVD players.
Gartner Dataquest tells us that universal 10mbps broadband could generate $500bn US a year. But the costs of distributing such a network would be huge. I bet they'd be saying the same thing about the telephone if we didn't have it now. (no really...) (via The Register). And slowly Internet2 spreads...