Logic 9 Certified
Out of the Closet and Dancin'
My friend Clark found this CD-ROM in a library book. He gave it to me because of the cover. On the label it reads, “We Are Not Saints” with a pitchfork on the left side. As for the music, it was exactly what Clark and I guessed would be ... disco anthems and 80’s pop.
Remit Now
* update: $7.00 of each Fine supports School Crossing Guards
Radio Show
WPRK 91.5 FM
Rollins Radio, Winter Park FL
Hosted by Chairman Hao
January 08, 2010
Friday 9:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Antony vs. Anthony
Testimonial Bloggers
* Hao: It's about time The Guides were updated to reflect the changes in media. The Guides Governing Endorsements and Testimonials were last updated in 1980.
ftc.gov
"The Federal Trade Commission today announced that it has approved final revisions to the guidance it gives to advertisers on how to keep their endorsement and testimonial ads in line with the FTC Act."
"The revised Guides specify that while decisions will be reached on a case-by-case basis, the post of a blogger who receives cash or in-kind payment to review a product is considered an endorsement. Thus, bloggers who make an endorsement must disclose the material connections they share with the seller of the product or service."
Intuit Acquires Mint.com
Mountain View, Calif., Sept 14, 2009 – Intuit Inc. (Nasdaq: INTU) has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Mint.com, a leading provider of online personal finance services in a cash transaction valued at approximately $170 million. Privately held Mint.com, based in Mountain View, Calif., has successfully used its advanced technology to provide consumers with an easy and intelligent way to manage their money.
“With this transaction, Intuit will gain another fast-growing consumer brand and a highly successful Software as a Service (SaaS) offering that helps people save and make money,” said Brad Smith, Intuit CEO. “This move will enhance Intuit’s position as a leading provider of consumer SaaS offerings that connect customers across desktop, online and mobile.”
Wanted: Jim Flora Records
If anyone has a Jim Flora record in their collection and are willing to sale, please contact me. I'll pay money. Or when I have money. I'm serious! I need the cover art and the record (of course).
Out of Town Notice
"Preventive Detention, at What Cost?"
Mint.com Updates
Mad Men 3
Episode 2 “My Old Kentucky Home”. Peggy gets high! And shows her secretary who’s the boss.
Al Franken Wins!
Franken, a former Saturday Night Live comedian and liberal commentator, wins the disputed election by only a few hundred votes. He will give Senate Democrats control of 60 seats, enough to overcome any Republican filibuster if they stay united.” --npr.org
I think Mr. Franken will be Minneosta’s best Senator ever.
Full Sail Farewell
First Sale
President Obama reportedly gave an iPod, loaded with 40 show tunes, to England's Queen Elizabeth II as a gift. Did he violate the law when he did so?You know your copyright laws are broken when there is no easy answer to this question.Traditionally, it has been the job of the "first sale" doctrine to enable gift giving -- that's the provision of copyright law that entitles the owner of a CD, book, or other copyrighted work, to give it away (or resell it, for that matter), notwithstanding the copyright owner's exclusive right of distribution.In the digital era, however, first sale has been under siege, with copyright owners (and even the Copyright Office) arguing that it has no place in a world where "ownership" has been replaced by "licenses" and hand-to-hand exchanges have been replaced by computer-mediated exchanges that necessarily make copies. But it's precisely because first sale is central to everyday activities like giving an iPod to a friend, selling a used CD on eBay, or borrowing a DVD from a library, that EFF and others have been fighting for it in case after case.
The President sides with the RIAA on file sharing lawsuits which allows fines to range from $750 to $150,000 per song. Read article: Threat Level. In a related report, President Obama continues to fill the Justice Department with lawyers from the RIAA. Read article: Threat Level.
Remix (Free)
Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy by Lawrence Lessig is available for download at Bloomsbury Academic. http://www.bloomsburyacademic.com/remix.htm
The “copyright wars” have lead many to believe that the choice we face is all or nothing. Either Hollywood will win or “the Net” will win. Either we’re about to lose something important that we’ve been, or we’re going to kill something valuable that we could be. Whoever wins, the other must lose.This simple framing creates a profound confusion. For there to need be no trade-off between the past and the future. Instead, all the evidence promises an extraordinary synthesis of the past and the present to create a phenomenally more prosperous future. This future need not be either less RO (read-only) or more RW (read-write): it could be both. And much more interesting (to those focused on the economy, at least), this future could see the emergence of a form of economic enterprise that has been relatively rare in our past, but that promises extraordinary economic opportunity: what I call the “hybrid.” -- Lawrence Lessig (Chapter 2 “Cultures Of Our Future”).
National Library Week
The local library is where Jamie Lee Curtis ‘connects’. You can connect with the world, April 12-18, 2009. Visit www.ilovelibraries.org/nationallibraryweek.
Lost Knowledge
"Volume 17: MAKE Volume 17 goes really old school with the Lost Knowledge issue, featuring projects and articles covering the steampunk scene -- makers creating their own alternative Victorian world through modified computers, phones, cars, costumes, and other fantastic creations. Projects include an elegant Wimshurst Influence Machine (an electrostatic generator built entirely from Home Depot parts), a Florence Siphon coffee brewer, and a teacup-powered Stirling engine. This special section also covers watchmaking, letterpress printing, the early multimedia art of William Blake, and other wondrous and lost (or fading) pre-20th-century technologies." -- Make
Do Not Call Registry
US National Do Not Call
https://www.donotcall.gov/
Questions & Answers with FTC
Federal Trade Commission: The National Do Not Call Registry
Remix
R.I.A.A.'s New Strategy
“Depending on the agreement, the ISP will either forward the note to customers, or alert customers that they appear to be uploading music illegally, and ask them to stop. If the customers continue the file-sharing, they will get one or two more emails, perhaps accompanied by slower service from the provider. Finally, the ISP may cut off their access altogether. “
10 Days Missing
play clip > cal9_1752
The dates September 3rd thru 13th are missing in the 1752 calendar. It is not a mistake. How can you view this calendar from the 18th-century on your computer? Launch the Terminal. Type: cal 9 1752
Notice the dates missing between September 2nd and 14th. There’s a Wikipedia post that explains this gap.
Source: Wikipedia.org
September 3–September 13 inclusive - These dates are omitted from the calendar in Britain as part of the adoption of the Gregorian calendar in the British Empire, to correct the 11-day discrepancy between the Old Style and New Style dates.
“In England, the year 1751 was a short year of 282 days, running from 25 March to 31 December. 1752 began on 1 January. To align the calendar in use in England to that in use on the continent, the changes introduced in 1582 by the Gregorian calendar were adopted with effect in 1752. To this end, the calendar was advanced by 11 days: 2 September 1752 was followed by 14 September 1752. The other changes brought about by Gregory were also adopted.
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The Gregorian calendar is the most widely used calendar in the world today. It was first proposed by the Calabrian doctor Aloysius Lilius, and decreed by Pope Gregory XIII, after whom it was named, on 24 February 1582 by papal bull Inter gravissimas. It is a reform of the Julian calendar.
Years in the reformed calendar continue the numbering system of the Julian calendar, which are numbered from the traditional Incarnation year of Jesus, which has been labeled the "anno Domini" (AD) era, and is sometimes labeled the "common era" (CE), otherwise known as the "Christian Era".
The changes made by Gregory corrected the drift in the civil calendar which arose because the mean Julian calendar year (exactly 365.25 days) was slightly too long, causing the vernal equinox, and consequently the date on which Easter was being celebrated, to drift slowly forward in relation to the civil calendar and the seasons. The Gregorian calendar system dropped 10 days to bring the calendar back into synchronization with the seasons and, to keep it there, adopted the following leap year rule:
Every year that is exactly divisible by four is a leap year, except for years that are exactly divisible by 100; the centurial years that are exactly divisible by 400 are still leap years. For example, the year 1900 was not a leap year; the year 2000 was a leap year”.