After getting stuck in the online world that is Blog, I thought I should put up some of the better links.

Insight into Microsoft Research Department

George Michael to give away future music online.
“I’ve been very well remunerated, as they say, for my talents over the years,” Michael told the BBC Radio 1 Wednesday, “so I really don’t need the public’s money.”

Steve Martin’s Script Notes on “The Passion”

This ultra small palm size Windows XP running PC looks pretty nifty!

Illegal-art.org
“The laws governing “intellectual property” have grown so expansive in recent years that artists need legal experts to sort them all out. Borrowing from another artwork—as jazz musicians did in the 1930s and Looney Tunes illustrators did in 1940s—will now land you in court. If the current copyright laws had been in effect back in the day, whole genres such as collage, hiphop, and Pop Art might have never have existed.”

Learn by doing

iPhotoToGallery. Maybe I will try using iPhoto again.

How DJ Danger Mouse made the ‘Grey Album’

Quote from Cory Doctorows latest book, ‘Eastern Standard Tribe’
I saw this mentioned HERE. I am yet to read the book.

“Art signalled the counterman for their bill. The counterman waved distractedly in the manner of a harried restaurateur dealing with his regulars, and said something in Korean to the busgirl, who along with the Vietnamese chef and the Congolese sous chef, lent the joint a transworld sensibility that made it a favorite among the painfully global darlings of O’Malley House. The bus-girl found a pad and started totting up numbers, then keyed them into a Point-of-Sale terminal, which juiced Art’s comm with an accounting for their lunch. This business with hand-noting everything before entering it into the PoS had driven Art to distraction when he’d first encountered it. He’d assumed that the terminal’s UI was such that a computer-illiterate busgirl couldn’t reliably key in the data without having it in front of her, and for months he’d cited it in net-bullshit sessions as more evidence of the pervasive user-hostility that characterized the whole damned GMT.

He’d finally tried out his rant on the counterman, one foreigner to another, just a little Briton-bashing session between two refugees from the Colonial Jackboot. To his everlasting surprise, the counterman had vigorously defended the system, saying that he liked the PoS data-entry system just fine, but that the stack of torn-off paper stubs from the busgirl’s receipt book was a good visualization tool, letting him eyeball the customer volume from hour to hour by checking the spike beside the till, and the rubberbanded stacks of yellowing paper lining his cellar’s shelves gave him a wonderfully physical evidence of the growing success of his little eatery. There was a lesson there, Art knew, though he’d yet to codify it. User mythology was tricky that way.”

Finally, misc thought snippets:

• To get into CSS or not, that is a question in my mind at the moment. (ditto on flash)


• Why doesn’t Apple create a tablet style computer?


• Why doesn’t google show date of when a page was authored? (maybe there is a simple like, it already does! do this….. or its not possible because….. Well I wanna know)


• Many of the bad UI elements in Windows don’t matter so much in a Tablet PC. Despite that, it still won’t be as nice to use as OS X.


• Zebra 1.5 is a modular beast! phew. (a Virtual Instrument for OS X Audio Units)