Archive for August, 2005

The Captain Pike of Cats

Friday, August 19th, 2005

From Engadget, Carlo Bertocchini has a cat named Elvis who lost the use of his rear legs in an accident, so he built him a little cat-controllable moving platform. Elvis doesn’t seem that good at driving around yet (PLEASE watch this video), but he’s pretty cute for a cat with two dead legs. One beep [...]

Ah, Blogs

Thursday, August 18th, 2005

A posting on Metafilter yesterday caused double download traffic – I love when that happens, even though this post contains what is probably the worst misspelling of my name I have ever seen. Coullter?
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It’s almost a little scary how much weight some of the more popular blogs can throw around. I would fear for [...]

This is why I hate DRM

Wednesday, August 17th, 2005

I saw this on iPodObserver:
The Dave Matthews band has posted instructions for circumventing the DRM on their own CD. The problem is that their CD has a copy protection scheme that doesn’t allow you to just pop the CD into your computer and play it, you first have to copy the songs to Microsoft’s secure [...]

Also, More Radio

Tuesday, August 16th, 2005

I’ll be on the David Lawrence Show again tonight at 11 PM east coast time. We’ll be talking about the PopSci soundtrack and playing a few of the songs. Tune in here:
XM Satellite Radio – 152 Extreme
Sirius Satellite Radio – 148 TalkCentral
KBNP/Portland
KNEW/San Francisco
WGN/Chicago

PopSci Lyrics

Tuesday, August 16th, 2005

I should have done this sooner, but never mind because I have done it now. You can get the lyrics to all the OBOOCA (Our Bodies, Ourselves, Our Cybernetic Arms) songs on my songs page. You will need to download them from PopSci for a while, because dammit, they deserve the eyeballs for being so [...]