Kirk McElhearn a freelance writer, specializing in Macs, the iPod, iTunes and digital music, writes in his blog about the new way apple is keeping track of itunes songs from being shared. He writes "Today, Apple released its first "iTunes Plus" tracks, music in 256 kbps AAC format with no DRM. So you can copy this music to any computer, play it on any device or computer that supports AAC, with no restrictions. However, while there is no DRM (digital rights management) in these tracks, there are breadcrumbs. If you look into an iTunes Plus file--just open one with a text editor--you'll see both your name and your iTunes account ID." After posting the file form a song in his blog he adds, "You'll also see this information in the Info window for the tracks in iTunes. So, while nothing is stopping you from sharing these files, remember that anyone will be able to find out who initially bought them. You can most likely edit the above information with a hex editor, but I haven't tried that yet." Personally I've never bought a song from the itunes store, but I can't see how putting private information into a song's file is anything good.

In case you haven't heard, there are a couple of guys trying to put Tux the Linux penguin on a Indy Racing League car. They call the project the Tux500 . In order to place the ad on the car they have to raise $350,000 by May 21 2007 so they can place the biggest ad on the side of the car, and call it the Linux car or tux500. So far they raised enough money to place an small ad on the nose of the car, that comes to $11,000. Some people think this is a great project, others think the money is being misplaced on a venture that could fail with out even getting to the start line, since the car has to qualify in order to race and if the car didn't make the cut, the only exposure to the ad would be on the qualifying rounds, or it could crash. Others think it's a scam. What do you think, is the money well used?

There is an interesting video on npr on how real human reactions translate to the virtual world, it's interesting in the view of the question posted here about rape on second life . The video is about a little experiment on second life where the reporter gets together with a psychologist to see if breaking some unspoken human rules apply on the virtual world, such as staring or being too close to someone. The link is here