When beef is scarce

Wil Wheaton not only has a website, but he’s also a blogger. His old blog employed Blogger, but he has moved on to using greymatter. Very cool. Oh yeah, Wil doesn’t take himself too seriously, and you shouldn’t either. [via MeFi]

Spend some time at crankbunny. It’s a beautiful work of art.

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It seems that many, if not all of the people using Macs, are not seeing this page properly. I am working to fix it, but since I am not running any Macs here it’s difficult. I have a couple of screen shots, but without some way to test changes, I’m kind of flying blind. I also have no idea where to start. I’m going to set up some test pages and hopefully get some Mac users to check them out. We’ll see what happens.

To all you Mac users, if you can read this, I apologize. I’m macintosh challenged. Maybe not for long though.

I just finished reading a mildly interesting article in RedHerring; the magazine not the website. It was discussing P2P software companies, and the possible bright future they may offer the net over such CDNs as Akamai.

I say, look for the money to start pouring into P2P startups cause it’s gonna be a big push to make this viable. The problem, as I see it though, is that P2P isn’t something you can sell to people. The free open-source community, as well as the freeloaders, won’t allow it. I mean, think of it this way; some upstart P2P company wants to charge another company money to use my computer to send its software to someone else. In the words of Ernie the wise, “Oh, HELL NO!”.

Not to mention the fact that multiple P2P software is going to confuse the user because he’s going to have to install different versions for each company’s content. And usually have them all running (supposedly in the background of course), with other users leeching off his computer and connection. Many of these P2P programs make it difficult to limit the access to your computer. There will be alot of installing and uninstalling going on.

They also better deal with the inherent security issues that are going to come with this, because it’s just going to be another payload delivery system for hackers and virii.

Don’t get me wrong, I like the idea of P2P. I just get the impression from this article, that people are hearing that cha-ching in their ears again when someone mentions it.

P2P is not another brand on the cash cow.

Thirty Odd Foot Of Grunts gets US record deal. Did Russell Crowe really need to shop a deal? Put it out independently. We have a little thing called the internet. It’s able to reach more consumers in a single bound. You’d clean up, and I wouldn’t have to hear it on the radio. Please tell me it’s not gonna be on the radio. Damn Don Johnson complex.

How desperate for attention are you if you feel the need to fly into Statue of Liberty?

Alan Peseri, president of New York paragliding firm Paramotor, said he did not believe the man was part of the sport’s community in the city.

Then went on to say “He obviously did not adhere to the rules. We have to keep a safe minimum altitude and we have to stay out of controlled airspace.” Does he mean the rules of the sports community perhaps? If he’s just a tourist, did anyone explain to him that he can’t go around flying into the Statue of Liberty? Even if they did, I’m sure his defense will be, “No one told me it was against the law.”

Oh, and winds in the harbour were described as normal. Normal for the harbor that is.

Next time take the ferry.

Shh…

<whisper>I just bought Jimi Hendrix’ autograph</whisper>

I’m not really an autograph collector, but this looked too cool to pass up.

[ Memoirs from Hijiyama ] is first and foremost, beautifully done. It’s also haunting in its imagery and tone. It’s a subject I always find emotionally captivating. I’ve often wondered, knowing what we know now, would we do it again. I’m ashamed to say we probably would. I find that horrifying.