Links for 10-10-2007
The record industry exodus continues, Jupiter’s smallest moons are missing, no new taxes for Second Life (yet), Dave Edelman wants to fix email by letting it die …
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1 – Bands Rushing To Ditch Labels And Embrace Free; Are The Floodgates Opening?
“It’s just that they’re not venture capitalists any more and bands don’t need help in distributing content — two businesses the record labels insist they’re in. What’s really sad here is how clueless the record labels remain to this reality.”
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2 – Boy in court on terror charges
“It is alleged he had a copy of the “Anarchists’ Cookbook”, containing instructions on how to make home-made explosives.” Which is not only decades old, but so easy to obtain it’s untrue. Idiots.
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3 – Run Off Groove: Music going from bad to worse
“… the previous commercial boundaries have been turned into porous borders that allow for the intermingling of content and business models, the refashioning of existing ideas and the birthing of entirely new ones.”
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4 – Display Your GCal Agenda in Firefox’s Sidebar
“Here’s how to set up your Firefox sidebar-friendly agenda using GCal’s embeddable calendar HTML.” Nice and easy – and useful, too.
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5 – Have Jupiter’s smallest moons been obliterated?
“… a raft of new findings from the encounter with the solar system’s most massive planet, including a puzzling absence of small moons in the planet’s rings.” OMG!
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6 – Congress to Second Life: No new taxes?
“We are not looking to impose taxes,” Miller told a packed house at the Metanomics session. “In my opinon the less government regulation you have on virtual worlds, the more they’ll thrive and develop.”
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7 – Self-sufficient space habitat designed
“Luna Gaia would be a ‘closed-loop’ environment, meaning that almost all material within the system is recycled with very little need for input from outside sources. The current design caters for a team of 12 astronauts under isolation for up to three yea
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8 – A little meat is good for the environment
“… a new study … using ecological footprint analysis … suggests that eating a very little meat is ecologically more efficient than eating a vegetarian diet.” Hmmm.
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“Here is Doctor Edelman’s prescription for how to fix e-mail: Don’t. Let it die, and start from scratch.” DLE isn’t pulling the punches, and he makes a lot of sense.
