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Thursday, February 27, 2003
Evhead of the class 
Behind, the Times
| | Okay, hey, my mustache is gray. I'll give ya that. And yeah, the sidewalls are pretty well pigment-free at this point. But the top is still mostly brown and mostly there. True, I've got a balding spot, but it's in the back, and not nearly as big as Kevin Spacey's. |
| | I remember feeding the writer some really righteous quotable deep-thinky lines that I was sure put The Whole Thing in perspective and would advance BigJo Understanding of Blogging As It Really Is or something like that. Instead, I got busted, again, for hogging the john. |
| | Tony was much more gracious: |
| | for the record, i was not suprised by how "down-to-earth" Doc Searls was, as i was quoted to say. i had met him once before and he was down-to-earth then, so i didnt expect anything different than what he is: your typical santa barbaran excellent soul living the good life that he deserves. |
| | What the fuck is "the record," anyway? I think it's broken. |
I always wanted to have a neighbor just like Fred
| | Nobody was ever nicer to kids than Mr. Fred Rogers. He helped raise two of our kids, and still says nice things to our youngest, now six. |
| | There wasn't a cynical, nasty or unkind bone in Mr. Rogers' body, which has now departed, leaving a body of work that will continue to be one of the best things on TV, literally, ever. |
Blog du Jour
| | The eponymous LukeFord, discovered via Ken Layne. Meanwhile, Ken, Matt Welch and others around the LA Examiner, are busy pioneering the territory where little-j and big-J journalism overlap. And having way too much fun. |
Link & learn
| | In Disaster: Time to Shut Off user Registration? Steve Outing in Poynter notes that the Providence Journal, which gave comprehensive local coverage to the Warwick, Rhode Island nightclub fire that killed nearly 100 people last week, was denied the national recognition that would have come in the the form of inbound links, because so much of the paper's editorial matter hides behind a linkwall that requires visitor registration. Here's more: |
| | Sheila Lennon, who writes the Subterranean Homepage News weblog for ProJo.com, notes that her blog has been outside of the site's registration all along. That's primarily so that the rest of the "blogosphere" can easily link to her stuff. With the nightclub story, the site did a fire weblog that was behind the registration wall over the weekend, but was removed from it on Monday. ProJo.com plans to have future breaking-news weblogs out from the registration wall. Lennon laments: "It has been troubling to see links going to national news outlets when the in-depth coverage is here." That's the down side to news site user registration. |
| | Be curious to see what happens after this story seeps though the BigJosphere. |
Site hanged for piracy, left swinging from yardarm
| | Alan Karl points to this Washington Post story, about how the U.S. Department of Justice has siezed a Web site, The Iso News (isonews.com), from David M. Rocci, aka Krazy8, of Blacksburg, Va, as part of a plea agreement concererning Mr. Rocci's admitted "conspiracy to violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by trafficking in devices known as modification, or 'mod,' chips" that would allow his customers to circumvent the copyright protections built into game systems such as Playstation2 and XBox." |
| | The site itself now swings like the corpse of a pirate from the yardarm of Capt. Ashcroft's ship: All that remains of The Iso News is its logo, which now serves as the opening phrase in a bold headline that reads "...is now the property of the United States government," flanked by the official seals of the Justice Department and the Customs Service. |
| | The site carries a warning to others who doubt the Feds' "dedication to enforcing the intellectual property laws of this nation online": |
| | Piracy is the unauthorized, willful reproduction or distribution of copyrighted material, such as software, movies, music, and games. People who distribute pirated works over the Internet via IRC, FTP sites, web sites, or file-sharing networks, and people who download or reproduce pirated works are risking criminal prosecution. Piracy is a crime even when the works are distributed over the Internet for free or where the conduct does not involve monetary gain, such as the trading of pirated products for other pirated products. |
| | The Department of Justice and federal law enforcement will continue to investigate and prosecute individuals and groups that violate the federal criminal copyright laws at home and abroad. For more information on these and other federal anti-piracy investigations, visit www.cybercrime.gov . |
| | The Cybercrime site lays out the Feds' offensive strategy against "piracy" and other offenses through investigative and prosecutorial efforts such as Operation Buccaneer which is concerned with "illegal 'warez' organizations and Internet piracy." Although Mr. Rocci is not the operations' list of defendants, it would appear from the nature of his admitted crime that he's one of them. |
| | The whole site makes interesting reading. Check it out. |
Nuevo Boutin Villa
After effects
| | It was in Ocho Rios, Jamaica, that I hoped to see Jah Shaka when I was there last Fall on the most recent Linux Lunacy Geek Cruise. But Jah told me it was too soon. He said I should await word from Marc, who told me about Jah's work in the first place. |
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