Archive for December, 2007

RIAA: You Don’t Really Own That CD

Posted: 29 December 2007 by Kathy E. Gill in Convergence, Legal, Media, Personal Technology
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Gack. The WaPo reports that the RIAA contends it is a copyright violation when we copy a CD to our computers to play there or to play on our MP3 players: In legal documents in its federal case against Jeffrey Howell, a Scottsdale, Ariz., man who kept a collection of about 2,000 music recordings on [...]

Tricked Out Wallstreet

Posted: 4 December 2007 by Kathy E. Gill in Personal Technology, Web/Tech

You have to visit this post to see the tricked out Wallstreet (a G3 Apple Powerbook, back when they were black and heavy). Truly amazing. Powered by ScribeFire.

Greenwald On Time

Posted: 3 December 2007 by Kathy E. Gill in Media, Society

Glen Greenwald takes aim at Joe Klein’s characterization of the Democratic-sponsored FISA bill, noting that Time magazine published an uncorrected column. This is the correction, run on the web: In the original version of this story, Joe Klein wrote that the House Democratic version of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) would allow a court [...]