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New Phone!
OK, so I just got my new phone, the Nokia 3650. Yeah, the same one that was used to make the worlds first music video shot on a mobile phone. So this is my first phone that can actually run apps and such, so what’s good out there right now? I’ve seen Soundcover, what else…
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Police recruit citizens in War on Pedophilia
The Macomb County Sheriff’s Department has a new program to enlist citizens to chat up pedophiles online. The goal is to expand the department’s capacity to find people who are interested in statutory rape. I suspect this is an attempt to recreate the ratings Fox 2 News got when they staged a similar stunt a…
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Touring the Medical Examiner’s
My girlfriend Jenny did a write up of her tour of the Wayne County Medical Examiner. It’s fascinating stuff, and worth checking out. It was filled with suicide notes, belts, and ropes used in suicides. One note said, “IF I CAN’T BE AN ARTIST, I CAN’T BE ANYTHING”. There was one picture that really stuck…
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Coolest of Ypsi
Steve Cherry is running a contest to see what’s cool in Ypsilanti. The categories include (but are not limited to) Coolest Dive Bar, Coolest Drink Special, Creepiest Cemetery and Honorary Ypsilantian. So what’s the difference between winning and losing? To quote Bubblegum Tate: Nothing! There’s nothing at stake and no threat, beyond the shame of…
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The other kind of car pr0n
A council member in Flint is trying to ban people from watching porn in their vehicles, according to this Flint Journal article. Councilwoman Carolyn R. Sims said she has gotten complaints about people watching pornographic videos inside cars – including one case in which the movie lovers left the back hatch of their sport utility…
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Linkdump: 2004-02-12
Aphrodisiac pizzaNothing like snorting pizza off of a stripper’s ass ann arbor is overrated: Graphic Content Multi vibrator demonstrationPretty SFW NYT interviews BitTorrent’s creator Bram CohenUsing BitTorrent for illegal trading, he added, is “patently stupid because it’s not anonymous” LegalTorrentsYour source for legal BitTorrent files MobileWhack – Python on Nokia w/ SCREENSHOTS mozCCCreative Commons plugin…
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Yaaar! The music pirates’ manifesto.
I wanted to spend some more time on “Yaaar! The music pirates’ manifesto, which I posted in my last linkdump. This article is an impressively crafted summary of what is going on with copyrights now. It covers the state of DRM and how it turns computers against their owners. It talks about Freenet and how…
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The Creativity Machine
There’s an amazing article about a neural network on STLtoday.com. By introducing noise into neural networks, Imagination Engines, Inc has been able to get their neural networks to invent new things. For example, the networks (called the Creativity Machine) have designed substances harder than diamonds and the Oral-B CrossAction toothbrush. From the article: “His first…
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Milan High School 0wned by the copyright cops
According to an LJ user a teacher at Milan High School was forced to resign for downloading software (also here), presumably for educational purposes. I couldn’t find anything on Google News about this but it may have happened during the current news cycle. Although I have no way of knowing that they were involved it…
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Barcode reader for craphounds
Bri pointed me to the IntelliScanner Collector, a combination barcode scanner/personal library manager. You just scan in the stuff you own and it pulls images and information down from the Intarweb. It seems perfect for people like me who force people to borrow their books and movies. Supposedly it can also create web pages for…