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I was checking out Hack A Day, which listed an iPod remote control hack. When I pulled it up, it turned out to be a controller that works off of T + A's remote control buss. Pretty cool, if somewhat narrowly focused.
Memo to all of us smug Apple computadors: Sony doesn't discriminate. It turns out, Sony BMG is using SunnCom DRM to install kernal extensions on your machines. That's in addition to the F4i root kit infestation that PC users are complaining about.
I'd love to write about something else, but this story keeps going and going and going. Now we have reports that Sony's malware has opened consumers' (yes, customers, people who actually bought their CDs) computers to other malware.
Of course I found this survey on the effectiveness of aluminum foil hats at stopping governmental brainwave manipulation funny—the first five times I received it!
But keep the links coming, folks.
"Blog up, yet?" asks JA,
on his way out to get a sandwich.
on his way out to get a sandwich.
I respond without looking away from our Products of the Year feature:
"Nope."
Relieved, perhaps, JA replies:
"I live in constant fear."
And Art Dudley tells me, too. He tells me:
you think
Just when
you think
things
with women
can't get
worse,
they do
get worse
but then
they get
better.
This piece of wisdom, like that Silver Jews song, is complicated. Complicated, but good. It ends with hope and hope is good. And I have many good reasons to believe in hope, and many good reasons to believe in Art. Besides, Art rocks the bow-tie. The bow-tie is a complicated thing. Complicated, but good. With age comes more than wisdom.…
I've read 'em all—does that make me the King of the Geeks? (And shouldn't Cryptonomicon be in first place?)