July « 2003 « Labda Hata Mimi

Interesting Guardian Article on Male Prostitution in Jamaca
Harsh Re-education Camp For US Troubled Rich Kids How’s this for ‘tough love’? In a disturbing article for The Observer, Decca Aitken gets unprecedented access to the privately run Tranquility Bay camp in Jamaica where US parents send their troubled teenaged offspring to be shown the error of their errors, paying up to $40,000 per year for the privilege.
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Legal Status of Happy Birthday cleared up by a persistant K5er
XBOX is vulnerable to modding by software through a buffer-under-run exploit in font files
Have broadband and never listened to internet radio!? You’re missing a lot. Check out the great stations over at Indy Mix soma.fm, DI electronica radio, or the eclectic rock Radio Paradise for a few of my favorites.
As Tim O’Reilly points out of the points of Open Source is Commoditization of software much like hardware has already been. Which reminded me that there was a great “Commoditize the Competition” article which was written a while ago by Joel Spolsky which I found enlightening. It picked out a lot of examples from the recent past for pondering and made “business strategy” seem slightly less abstract.
Ian Murdock, Debian (pronounced Deb-Eean) Linux founder, who was mentioned in that last bullet’s article linked (and commented upon) some more articles of commoditization.
Just was scanning /. for that Xbox link above and found that Blizzard is revamping certain aspects of Diablo II in the 1.10 patch. Beta just released. Kinda odd since Diablo II is several years old now and they don’t stand to gain much cash from the changes. Does the game really matter to them? Makes ya wonder.
And to break from my barrage of hyperlinks: Terminator III handily beat out Matrix Reloaded in its All-Out-On-Road Action Scene of The Year IMO. At least judging from a single viewing of both films. I occasionally find I had succumbed to hyperbole and that a film required a second viewing for that fog to clear up.

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