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Sunday, April 23, 2006
Monopoly bored? 
Free Neil
| | Neil Young's newly recorded protest album "Living With War," including a song calling for the impeachment of U.S. President George W. Bush, will be posted for free Internet streaming next week, his label said on Friday. |
| | Starting April 28, fans can log onto Young's Web site, www.neilyoung.com, and listen to the 10-track collection in its entirety, free of charge, said Bill Bentley, a spokesman for Warner Music Group's Reprise Records |
A little better than half right
A cockroach theory of Flash intro pages
| | Web sites end up getting polluted with crap like Flash and JavaScript for various reasons, but perhaps the single most common underlying issue is that "designers" have no content to give you, so they substitute an "experience" for something useful. Yeesh. I don¹t spend (way too much) time on the Internet to have an "experience," I just want to get some information or look at pictures or something. It¹s kind of like the now-defunct Damon¹s, a restaurant chain that sported multiple big-screen TVs tuned to various games. They billed themselves as "A Dining Event!" I tend to think of a ³dining event² as something like that time when The Boy found a dried-up roach in his cereal — I don¹t want a "dining event," I just want something to eat (preferably insect-free). Same with the web: I don¹t want Flash and Java$#!+ substituting for content. If I wanted to waste time with mindless garbage, there¹s a TV in the living room. |
Sorry, Steve. Had to link ya.
| | Steve Gillmor: These links are pretty nifty for a dead technology... |
Whenever
| | Today's scrub was caused by more problems with a refueling aircraft required by a downrange launch tracking plane, a NASA spokesman now confirms. Discussions are underway to determine a new launch date. |
| | When I'll be out of town, no doubt. I take a train to the Desktop Summit in San Diego later today. New York and New Jersey (the homeland) on Wednesday. Won't be back for a week. |
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