Earth: Mostly Harmless

Consumer Electronics Association stands up to Big Content

Hopefully a sign of things to come…
Consumer Electronics Association ad campaign slams RIAA:
Cory Doctorow:

The Consumer Electronics Association is taking a brave stand against the entertainment companies’ attacks on the public’s right to record from digital radio. This is brilliant — and maybe it signals that the CEA’s members will stop manufacturing technnoloogy that controls their [...] (…)

Woo! SubEthaEdit nearly free!

I’m posting this so that the price for SubEthaEdit from CodingMonkeys on BLOGZOT 2.0 on MacZOT.com (a sort of Mac software clearing-house) in their reverse auction comes down. They want peeps to post all this info (and the obligatory statement “MacZOT and TheCodingMonkeys will award $105,000 in Mac software”) to their blogs, and they’ll reduce [...] (…)

links for 2006-04-22

Google’s China Problem (and China’s Google Problem) - New York Times
Cisco, Google, and the Great Firewall - the familiar refrain of discussion of China’s internet censorship policies. But are Chinese people really clamouring for unrestricted access? Or do they acquiesce to a government-controlled Internet?
(tags: google china internet censorship cisco nortel 3com newyorktimes nyt)

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New rodent

I received my new mouse today, a Logitech MX610. It’s very nice, and it Just Worked™ on my iMac with all features (except the LEDs) enabled, with no drivers or anything, which I wasn’t expecting.
Despite it being wireless, it somehow (through some technological jiggerypokery beyond my comprehension) is able to wake up the Mac from [...] (…)

links for 2006-04-20

YouTube - India Driving
Strangely hypnotising.
(tags: traffic India driving cars street)

Tank cosy on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Cool. I believe the Super Furry Animals also used to drive a pink tank around London in their heyday.
(tags: tank pink denmark flickr photography peace protest)

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