Be Good Tanyas? I’ll tell you. They’re Very Very good. Blue Horse is an almost perfect first record, in that style, and Chinatown is due out in a month or so. The worst part is, though, that I’m just figuring this out now. I’ve missed at least three of their shows (that I remember), they shacked up at a friend’s apartment last time they were in Montreal, and I (and friends) drank a LOT with the guy who played drums on their last tour after the show. Never quite managed to listen to ’em before now, at least not straight through. Damn.
A Norwegian Court acquitted
teenager Jon Johansen over the creation of DeCSS, the software he made so that he could watch DVDs on his Linux box rather than an industry-vetted player. The judge stated very strongly that as long as a DVD is legally obtained, no one could dictate which machine could be used to use it. Looks like a showdown will be coming on these issues between Europe and the US.
Still catching up:
Daegan has posted a lovely and moving memory of a Joe Strummer moment she had when she was 15. “And I remember finding myself directly behind Joe Strummer, and reaching out and touching his back before the song ended. What a strange, strange emptiness it is when heroes die.”
Steve Jobs’ Keynote
at Macworld has been over for a while now; they unveiled some very interesting things today. Most interesting to me in the short term is Safari, Apple’s new browser. As well, an Apple-born X11 system which is interesting to folks from the Unix world, a super-sized 17″ Powerbook and a super-small 12″ Powerbook as well. Jobs understands that the middle ground in laptops is cluttered – either end of the spectrum is where the good stuff lives. Also: 802.11g is being called Airport Extreme, they have released Jobs’ own pet software, Keynote, and some other stuff.
Maybe some of the huge announcements of past Keynotes were missing, but I like this one anyhow. It has that feeling of taking care of business.
Catching up:
Dial-Up Revelations, by Meg Hourihan on the O’Reilly Network. A nice look at web standards and alternate access methods to network data from the perspective of someone away from high speed Internet access for an extended period of time.
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