Month: October 2004

J-Walk Blog:? LP Cover Art Some damn interesting album covers here. Thanks for putting up such high quality scans. They will look interesting floating through “my pictures” on my 43 inch plasma on my Media Center PC in the living room.

evhead: Next? A blogger leaves blogger. Via John Battelle’s Searchblog.

WXPN.org 88.5 Who would have guessed number 709, The Pixies, Here Comes Your Man. An interesting list to say the least. via metafilter.

The Engadget Interview: Anthony Wood, founder and CEO of Roku – Engadget – www.engadget.com JD Lasica interviews Anthony Wood, founder and CEO of Roku.

For readers who aren’t familiar with Roku, what are you guys about?

We’ve been around since October 2002 and we’re based in Palo Alto, Calif. Our focus is building digital media players for home. Our core expertise is to produce great-looking products and great user interfaces.

Silicon Valley – Dan Gillmor’s eJournal – Do-Not-Call is Constitutional Looks like the do not call list is constitutional. I cannot believe how much my telemarketing calls have gone down once I put myself on the do not call list. A very positive first step. Now if only they could do something about spam and adware.

blog.photoblogs.org: Last chance to submit to JPG Magazine: Origin JPG Magazine sounds like a brilliant and cool idea.

Tom Waits for No Man ? Mr. Waits Records with Eels (No, Not the Fish) Looks like Tom Waits will be on the next Eels CD.

New Media Musings: ourmedia: a call for entries A great place to host your media.

Update. Scoble has an excellent post on the current situation over at his blog.

“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.” Aaron Copland, American Composer (1900-1990)

Slashdot | Ballmer Says iPod users are Thieves Ballmer says that iPod users are thieves. I’m sure that people don’t play illegally downloaded music on Windows Media Player though… right Steve?

It would seem to me that there would be no higher percentage of “thieves” using iPods than WMP.

Of course Microsoft could always just cripple the mp3 playback on it’s WMP and watch everyone switch players if they really wanted to… or they could take a cue from the RIAA playbook and just insult their customers by calling them thieves.

Hotel WiFi grows up – Engadget – www.engadget.com Check in. Go to your hotel room. Get online. Or, more likely, try to get online. Call the front desk. “No WiFi access, sir. We can get you a phone cable so you can plug into your data port.” Great. While it’s still rare to find a hotel that offers high-speed access, it’s even more rare to find one that offers WiFi access. Enter Starwood Hotels. The mavens that they are, Starwood have started offering not only WiFi access in rooms, but also local hotel-based blogs for guests.