Archive for August, 2005



Record Companies Still Clueless

The music industry are just clueless and you can throw the movie companies in with them. They get 70 cents out of each 99 cent track that iTunes sells and there are no distribution or manufacturing costs to speak of and that isn’t good enough. The HELL with them! Before the iTunes Music Store came [...]

Evangelist backs off Chavez assassination call – Yahoo! News:
Conservative U.S. evangelist Pat Robertson, who called for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, said on Wednesday he was misinterpreted and there were a number of ways to “take him out” including kidnapping.
Not only is he a wack job, but a liar.
UPDATE: US evangelist apologizes for [...]

Say it isn’t so

Tour Chief Says Armstrong Owes Explanation – Yahoo! News
The director of the Tour de France claims Lance Armstrong has “fooled” the sports world and that the seven-time champion owes fans an explanation over new allegations he used a performance-boosting drug.
Tour director Jean-Marie Leblanc’s comments appeared in the French sports daily L’Equipe on Wednesday, a day [...]

Winer hates Apple

Dave Winer
Wow, it seems I’m not alone in hating Safari, and nowhere near as alone as I thought in my dislike of Apple. Everyone says IE on Mac sucks too, and to get Firefox. So that’s what I’ll do. Report to come soon. Thanks everybody! (Wish I had known this when I ran into Steve [...]