You have to give the record industry some credit. Orrin Hatch recently spoke about destroying the computers of people who break copyright laws. The industry is way ahead of him on this; copies of Tubular Bells 2003 are reported to be destroying CD-ROM, DVD-ROM and DVD drives. Nice. Why can't this technology be applied for good? If only all the copies of Fast Food Rockers CDs were similarly inflicted…
Okay, so that's the depressing news. To compensate, I present: THE GREATEST PRINTER IN ALL RECORDED HISTORY. I have to admit that it sounds a little far-fetched, but it looks really cool. I hope they're producing a henna ink-cartridge - instant henna tattoos!
Finally, in case you need a laugh, have a read of the latest RSS Wars. Yes, even software developers act like four-year-olds who take their toys home when things don't go their way.
Haha, you mean someone successfully trolled Dave Winer? To whoever it was, I SALUTE YOU!
It's been building for the last couple of weeks, what with this new format to replace RSS. He was fine with it at the start of the week, but by Friday he was ranting furiously against Blogger, SixApart, IBM, and anybody who happened to get in his way...
And this is particularly unusual for Dave Winer in what way...? As one who follows the web standards/design/development meme, his rants are the stuff of legends ("What? Use CSS? Why, when using a combination of nested tables, one-by-one pixel transparent GIFs and font tags works so well already?"). This was long overdue.
To be completely fair, he was joined by jwz in that rant (not that I agree with either of them :-)). But yes, he does seem to have something of a persecution complex...