Just read a post at The Chronicle (of Higher Education) about how the RIAA goes about identifying alleged music pirates. Apparently an anonymous representative of the organization stopped by the Chronicle’s offices and gave a rundown of how it’s done. I found it funny, and perfectly obvious, that they would use Limewire to identify people who share songs on the RIAA hotlist. Read more…
While sharing this article with a colleague, he tells me about a highly controversial act which just[...]
Archive for May, 2008
As I sit here, reading through 50 resumes looking for keywords and wishing there was a search engine for paper, I wished I could just scan the paper and do a keyword search. I know there is a handheld scanner out there, but this idea would need something special…a quick and dirty OCR client. As Walt and I talked this out, we came up with the idea of a special kind/color of ink that the scanner would detect to make[...]
I was surfing music blogs tonight and I came across something that raised my eyebrow. Now, not much surprised me, but this is hands down the winner of the most disturbing images evoked by a band name/album name in my lifetime:
My Penis is Made of Dogshit – Satan Gets An Abortion
This can’t possibly be good. Can it?
