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Entries for February, 2008

Yay, RIAA Propaganda!

Have you had a chance to see this RIAA training video (torrent at thepiratebay, I’ll try to link to an online version when I can find one)? The history of it is apparently that it was sent to prosecutors in order to teach them how to bust more people for music piracy. It goes as [...]

Why is Congress Investigating Baseball?

Does it seem like a ridiculous waste of time to anyone else for Congress to investigate Major League Baseball over steroid abuse? I can understand that there are perfectly valid legal reasons that the House of Representatives is allowed to investigate baseball, but what I can’t figure out is why it is an effective use [...]

Introducing blaq design!

I have an exciting announcement on something that I’ve been working on over the past few months. A few others and I are working on starting a bike component and apparel company called blaq design. In addition, from February 8-10 (tomorrow, yikes!), we’re going to be debuting our company at Ray’s MTB during their B.I.K.E./Ride [...]

Hacker Email Address Parsing

It’s pretty common nowadays to see any type of email addresses that are publicly posted on the web to be formatted so that they are hard to spot by spambots that just rip through pages, parsing addresses out and adding them to various nefarious mailing lists. Such addresses often look a lot like “myaddress @ [...]

5 Great New Albums – Winter 2008 Edition

  Tiger Army – Music from Regions Beyond Tiger Army is a Rockabilly group, and they exemplify a great entry into said genre. The album itself is very well put together, and even has a few songs sung in (what I assume is) Spanish. If you have a chance, read their Wikipedia entry – it’s [...]