Sunday, June 30, 2002

I'm not allowed to go to Border's.  Whether I need to or not, I always wind up buying a few things.  It's awful.  No matter how much I tell myself, "OK, you've got about ten books you need to read, you're up on your movie collection and there's no music you want, and besides, self, you don't have too much extra money, so we'll just not buy anything this time." It was just as I was finishing this little litany that I saw Neil Gaiman's new book.  I can't not buy a new Gaiman book.  So I'm adjusting my stack, putting Coraline on the top.  Great website, by the way. 10:47:41 PM     Here's an excellent article in the New York Times about what needs to happen for the Music industry to adjust to the internet. 10:37:26 PM     I got an e-mail from an unknown e-mail address with some interesting links relating to yesterday's post.  First, a story called The Right to Read by Richard Stallman.  Second, a site drawing parallels between Microsoft's Palladium project and that story. Here's some more information. Here's a story on an AMD motherboard design that could make Palladium work.  AMD and Intel have agreed to work with Microsoft on Palladium. Here's the original Newsweek story on Palladium via MSNBC.  Note: the MS in MSNBC stands for Microsoft.  Under Palladium, you probably wouldn't be able to read this article unless you had a subscription to Newsweek or MSNBC.  If you could read it, you couldn't download it or save it on your computer for future reference. Dave's words. Good article on The Register (dubbing Palladium "Windows 1984"). Lots more stuff on Google. 5:10:03 PM

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