From The Age, fans walk out on Pearl Jam gig because Eddie beats up the mask of George Bush:

"When he was sharing his political views in a fairly benign manner -- supporting our troops, opposing policy -- that's OK," Keith Zimmerman told the daily.

"When he takes what looks like the head of George Bush on a stick, then throws it to the stage and stomps on it, that's just unacceptable.

Meanwhile, as this article has just reminded me, many radio stations don't actually play the physical CDs they're sent from record companies, they rip them to a digital system to make them easier to pull up and play. Therefore, this is effecting the ability for some radio stations to play EMI artists, as the free promos are copy protected. HA!

The only thing missing from William Gibson's latest book is weblogs. It's all so darn "current" with googles and message forums and iMacs and Netscape and video streaming all that but at one point the main characters says something along the lines of not really knowing what someone she's been speaking too on the web does in "real life". The kind of person he is, I'd expect him to have a weblog... although... at the start of the book they talk about "Googling" people to find out who they are "Google me and you'll find...". Why couldn't she Google her net friend? I suspose the inference is that she has and found nothing...? I'm surprised he hasn't said "MP3" yet.

Actually the "Netscape" could almost be seen as a deliberate dating of the book, knowing full well Netscape will be dead as a donky soon. Or maybe just deliberate non-Microsoftness. Or maybe Netscape isn't as dead on the Mac as it is on PC. Or maybe saying "Netscape" places it firmly in 2002 where it belongs.

Lies lies and more lies...

The thing I'm finding most disturbing in this war is the full access the media has and is showing of who the USUKAus are "destroying". The photo in The Age website this morning of an Iraq army officer on the front waiting to take on the invaders really got to me. Did we have photos of the VC's in Vietnam before they were Napalmed or only after? I can't explain myself.... this is all so horrible.

Free MP3 from new Tomahawk album due in may. They're touring the US soon. Also check that link for the tracklisting of the new album. Last track, a cover of Flashdance...

David Bowie gets cooler every minute. He supports non-copy protected CDs. Asked specifically for his latest album to be released un-protected.

ScriptingNews Dave discovers the "white list" method of spam reduction. His explaination of his discovery in one swipe infers that all email from people he does not know is unimportant...

Personally... some of my favourite and most interesting emails are from people I don't know, particularly those sent to the band. I'd hate to miss an email from a producer or a record company just because they were not on my list-o-friends.

I tend to work another way. I have an email address that only my friends know. I own a domain for which I can put absolutelyanything@thedomain.com and have them all still come to my main address but with the To header intact. Whenever I sign up for something (say, antivirus service, or amazon) I'll put something like amazon@thedomain.com. That way I know exactly where it came from... I also know who sold/gave my email address to the SPAM company should I get spam sent to that address. Emails from friends come from the address I try to keep private.

There is always the risk the private friend email will end up in a spam list I spose... dang it.

Now that I think about it... maybe I took the wrong inference from Dave's post. His Friends white-list is there so he definitely doesn't miss an email from a friend. Anything in his friends list is something he definitely wants and won't be accidently deleted in a SPAM killing rampage.