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Journal Journal: Worst case scenario 8

Well it's official. We're breaking up. I just wish my wife had handled things a little more elegantly. Part of the reason I'm into polyamory is that by promoting honesty and open communications in all things, at least in theory, it can protect against that punched in the gut feeling of shock and betrayal that heralds the end of many a relationship.

Feed DRM-free EMI music hitting iTunes today? (engadget.com)

Filed under: Portable Audio


It was promised for May, now Apple is busy rolling out iTunes updates to "preview and purchase iTunes Plus music -- new higher-quality, DRM-free music downloads from participating music labels." Hmmm, "labels" huh? That's plural which means Stevie boy might have more than EMI up his sleeve when he goes on stage for All Things D later today. Mind you, you still can't purchase any DRM-free music on iTunes but that should be corrected in time for some heavy grandstanding.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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Feed Freaks and Geeks: High School Hell (1999-2000) (wired.com)

Freshman Sam Weir is a geek. His sister, Lindsay, is a freak. They try to make their way through high school circa 1980, a melee of big rock, Monty Python skits, and enough Star Wars to choke a Wookiee. From the patron saint of misfits, Judd Apatow.


Feed Which ISPs Are Spying on You? (wired.com)

Understanding website privacy policies is a challenge, but it's important to wade through your internet service provider's -- the company that ferries all your traffic to and from the internet, from search queries to BitTorrent uploads, flirty IMs to porn.


Worms

Journal Journal: U.N. Human Rights Council slammed!

Give this guy a medal! Watch our "Maccabee" hero, Hillel Neuer, hammer the Useless Nations HR (Hypocrites Roster) Council. He nails those rats to the wall, calling them out to be the heartless, Jew-bashing scumbags they are. This is like a dream come true.

United States

Journal Journal: Tax tip of the day 3/29/07

If you steal property, you must report its fair market value in your income in the year you steal it unless, in the same year, you return it to its rightful owner.

Software

John W. Backus Dies at 82; Developed FORTRAN 271

A number of readers let us know of the passing of John W. Backus, who assembled a team to develop FORTRAN at IBM in the 1950s. It was the first widely used high-level language. Backus later worked on a "function-level" programming language, FP, which was described in his Turing Award lecture "Can Programming be Liberated from the von Neumann Style?" and is viewed as Backus's apology for creating FORTRAN. He received the 1977 ACM Turing Award "for profound, influential, and lasting contributions to the design of practical high-level programming systems, notably through his work on FORTRAN, and for seminal publication of formal procedures for the specification of programming languages."

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