18 Mar 2003
RIAA and MLK

And I thought the animal rights nutcases were going to win the award for the most tasteless PR move this year. Seems as though they're being challenged ....

RIAA chief invokes Martin Luther King in pigopoly defense. P2P poisoning, ISP clampdown justified [The Register]

00:00 /Copywrongs | 0 comments | permanent link

Hard and Slow XML

I don't know if "too hard" is the right phrase, but it's sure something else. I've been putzing with an XML parser for VXML for the past couple of weeks, and it seems as though I get little more done than coding to handle the extraneous fluff that XML generates.

XML Co-Creator says XML Is Too Hard For Programmers [Slashdot]

00:00 /Technology | 0 comments | permanent link

Rebuilding Cultures

Seems as though the somewhat mainstream media is picking up on this little tidbit I posted ten days ago.

But Wired does have some more information, including this pointer to the Hopewell Culture National Historical Park.

I'd like to see some academic types take up a cross cultural comparison with the Hopewell/Adena cultures, the Neolithic dolman builders in Central and Western Europe and Uppsala In pre-Viking Scandinavia. It would be interesting ....

00:00 /Asatru | 0 comments | permanent link

Texas Town to Erect Wolfman Jack Statue

Now this is funny .... reminds me of a book I read years ago entitled The Motel of the Mysteries

Texas Town to Erect Wolfman Jack Statue

[From Amish Tech Support]

00:00 /Humor | 0 comments | permanent link