About Bush's spying. One of the harshest editorials from the NYT I've read in a long time. It gave me a strange tingly feeling, like climbing the rope in gym class.
It was so good, so easy to use and so pleasant, that I bought a CD just because it would have been rude not to, like when someone offers you a homemade cookie when you're already full. Go ahead and try it.
ps. I bought an album by Jon Brion.
Jen at World Wide Watercooler informs me it's delurking week. So come to this entry and add a comment. Or, like, bad things will happen.
Update: "Lurking" is when you read my blog but never comment. "Delurking" is when you stop lurking and reveal yourself.
Every time you click on a song in the new iTunes (6.0.2), if you have the new MiniStore open (which is is by default in the new version) you send your title and artist info to iTunes. Adding spyware to a product, does that usually it bump up at least half a version point? But Apple went from 6.0.1 to 6.0.2 without even bothering to mention this privacy hole in the release notes, and without mentioning anything in their privacy policy about what they do with this data. And they didn't give you the option to opt-in -- it's opt-out for Apple users.
Apple, don't be rotten. You owe it to your supporters to fix this behavior.
Update: Someone pointed out that they already could collect data on any CD you put in your drive when you lookup the track names -- and this is default behavior, and no one objected to this. Fair point.
Which one of these people is not like the others? And which one do you think triggered the public outcry against gun violence that may sway this year's election? Her are twomore clues.
Fascinating read: "It sort of ended the very short age of innocence in aviation." I'm also amazed by this: "Graham stood trial for murdering his mother, since no criminal statute against sabotaging a commercial plane existed until President Eisenhower signed one into law later that year."
“I find myself thinking of a checklist Wozniak wrote a few years ago describing how to become a genius. His advice was straightforward yet strangely terrible: You must clarify your goals, gain knowledge through spaced repetition, preserve health, work steadily, minimize stress, refuse interruption, and never resist sleep when tired. This should lead to radically improved intelligence and creativity. The only cost: turning your back on every convention of social life.”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.”
You can scroll right easily by holding down the SHIFT key and using your scroll wheel. (Firefox users trying this will end up jumping to old Web pages until a) Firefox releases a fix, b) they change their settings like so.)