iDallas!New technology will allow music to be carried wirelessly over a bluetooth connection. Wireless speakers and headphones exist now, but they are not high enough quality for discerning listeners. This technology transfers the audio digitally and future digital music players will probably include the transmitter, so the sound quality issues may be resolved once and for all. Nice!
Hawaii was lots of fun, but now I’m back in smokey california doing my best to avoid doing too much work.
I used to stream along. I think I secretly, or maybe not secretly, wanted other people to stream with me. I thought about how cool that would be if other people would catch my vibe and want it enough to seek it out.
I think now I probably have lost that wild naive edge I used to have. I probably have moved along to some other not quite so wild and not quite so naive and not quite so edgey egde. Haha, I wouldn’t have it any other way, though. Well… not most of the time, anyway.
this wired.com article tells the story of a high school student who has been charged with a felony for writing a short fiction story.
These days, people are so scared of what might happen that they’re willing to supress art and creative thinking to protect themselves from the future. It’s exactly this kind of reasoning and thinking that creates the kind of environment that fosters terroristic behavior. When we get to a point when merely thinking about violence can land us in jail, who among us would be safe from the law?
We can only hope to reduce the amount of violence in the world by practicing non-violence in our own lives.
Vida and I returned from our week or so at Burning Man this past Monday evening. I’m starting to acclimate back into the normal swing of things again. I have some observations about my experiences, but I’m not quite ready to share them yet.
Maybe later.
According to this article, Universal Music plans to drop its wholesale price for CD’s by about 3 bucks and is asking record stores to chip in another 3 bucks for a total price drop of about $6.
This sounds like a step in the right direction to me.
I’m leaving for 8 days in Hawaii tomorrow morning. I suspect the lure of my website will be weakened by the force of the tropical paradise so don’t expect much in the way of updates.
Is this the beginning of the end for humans? Haha, well maybe or maybe not. Scientists have managed to hook a couple of monkey’s brains up to a computer hooked up to a robotic arm. The monkeys are able to move the robotic arm entirely with their brain, performing simple tasks like picking up objects and moving them around. The scientists seem to assume that this means humans will be able to do the same thing. Wouldn’t it be quite the disappointment if monkeys can do it and we can’t?
Jean Luc Picard is apparently a popular result, but I ended up as Galadriel, the Elf Witch from the Lord of the Rings, in this geek personality test.
The hot Internet news of the day appears to be this article detailing evidence of electronic ballot box tampering dating back as far as 1990. Apparently the source code to some ballot box software and lots of other related files were made publicly available, accidentally or otherwise, at some point in the past and those files provided proof of this apparent conspiracy. People in power allegedly control the companies that have created these electronic polling booths and use that control in their favor. This is all hearsay, but it wouldn’t surprise me if it was true.