No Eric only your are Milfted if you actually know what that means... if not you are probally more pure then Percy.

Yep at the U finishing off a engineering write-up. Should be here for a while.

'JO MOMA!!!

"His mother was quick to defend the rap in face of the criticism."


taken from cbc.ca: Cabinet minister's son rapped over softwood lumber rap
Last Updated Fri, 03 Dec 2004 18:30:34 EST
http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2004/12/03/Arts/babba041203.html

new HOT HOT HEAT record, out i dunno when.
from the pitchfork news section:


title: Elevator

tracklisting:
Running Out of Time
Island of the Honest Man
Dirty Mouth
You Owe Me an IOU
No Jokes - Fact
Goodnight, Goodnight
Middle of Nowhere
Pickin' It Up
Ladies and Gentlemen
Elevator
Shame on You
Soldier in a Box
Jingle Jangle

kay Alison, no biggie. but if i could get that tape from you Monday that would be perfect, thanks.

and i believe the word is "MILF-ffted"

Here is my mecha in all its glory here! MMFT means Monthly Mecha Fighting Tournament. Basically a dumbed down version of eatpoo.com or cgtalk.com. A sight for mecha fanatics to draw mecha and vote for the best design. Yep it's that nerdy!

Whereas I fully endorsed the Lycos screensaver...

The spammers don't care, they're sitting back collecting their $20,000 a day paycheque wasting my time having to delete said spam. Not to mention the time of the people trying to build ever better filters, and the ISP's themselves having their bandwidth wasted on spam.

Not to say that this will make them care any more, but it will dent their bottom line and I'm all for that. Fuck 'em... if I can't physically find them to punch them in the face, then Lycos can find them for me and I can ping their servers dammit.
Hopefully they'll get it back online soon.

I thought "mmft" was an expression, not an acronym... like an onomatopoeia... you know "pfft" and good on you, Albert for joining some onomatopoeia organization, I don't know many people who would be so inclined.

So I did it I entered that MMFT thing... Now we will see how badly cut up I get... Yeah!

What an interesting set of tech stories: Two wrongs don't make a right, the little guy sells out, and the 'Evil Empire' sticks up for you.

Actually, I thought that the Lycos thing was wrong from the beginning. Everyone seemed to love it, but somehow being equally evil and annoying as the spammers never seemed to be the right way to solve the problem.

As for Shawn Fanning, I think that kowtowing to the recording industry's model is not the way to (a) deal with online music or (b) make money with online music. The problem with online music is that it the song files are so small, you can't convince me that you can sell me a better product on a per song basis. This is a problem that, currently, is unique to music (I am sure that the Movie and TV industries could provide their content that people would pay for because of the premium on good quality and fast downloads.)

I would rather see (and would probably pay for) an unlimited monthly subscription idea. Essentially, I see it as something like customized radio. Just connect, find an artist you want to hear, click and, in a few seconds, you've got music (which is conceptually the same model as having your mp3s on your hard drive.) If you really want the album, you can go out and buy it, or pay to download it. You wouldn't have to download it, though, because, as with so much on the internet, it would just be available to find (for example, I don't download a dictionary, I go to Dictionary.com.) Moreover, this could open up the Amazon-style market of the bottom part of the popularity curve. (Amazon makes far more on the less popular items it can provide because they link them to popular items. The cost of providing niche items is the same as the popular stuff and people are more willing to buy niche merchandise than ubiquitous items (something about the thrill of "the find".)) Similarly, they can expose that lower popularity end of the market without (much) added cost. At the very least, a model that fits the medium (rather than shoehorning the medium to fit the industry model) would be much better received, and I have no doubt it would be far more profitable than the current stance.