The latest news about Creative owning a patent on “Automatic Hierarchical Categorization of Music By Metadata” has me a little annoyed. I just don’t see why one company would have to pay another for the ability to create a hierarchical menuing system. The ability of companies to “own ideas” rather than specific implementations is just not something that makes sense to me.
Category Archives: Remaindered
An article about podcasting from Duluth News Tribune
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The Duluth News Tribune has an article on podcasting today in, of all places, the politics section. The article mentions a podcast called Strange Brain Radio that sounds interesting.
Bloggers account effects of Katrina on the Gulf Coast
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This ZDNet article talks about how bloggers, including a newspaper and an NBC affilate, are providing “some of the most vivid, first hand accounts” of Hurricane Katrina.
IT worker confidence falls in August
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GooglePark
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As mentioned on yesterdays GeekNewsCentral podcast, take a look at GooglePark! This one is pretty funny.
Robert Feder : Paul Harvey broadcast killed when he referrs to Jerry Falwell instead of Pat Robertson
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Robert Feder reports that Paul Harvey’s radio show had to be killed and later refed to affilliates on Wednesday when, meaning to talk about Pat Robertsons call to assasinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, he referred to Jerry Falwell instead. Ooops!
An iPod Cellphone?
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According to the NY Times, Apple and Motorola are working on an iPod Cellphone.
Subversion 1.2.3 has been released.
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I’m a little late on this one, but the Subversion team has announced the release of Subversion 1.2.3. Downloads of the software are available here.
Flickr Users upset over Yahoo! Integration
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Some Flickr users are pretty upset over the Yahoo! requirement that all Flickr users migrate to Yahoo! accounts, some threatening to leave the service once the final deadline approaches.
Mr T. to reprise Clubber Lang role in Rocky 6?
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The Movie Blog reports that Mr. T. has confirmed he will be starring as Clubber Lang in the new Rocky 6 movie. Apparently, he will be a commentator. I agree with the author, that Rocky 6 is a “one too many trips to the well” movie. I think I’ll wait for video for this one.
Bieber Labs 