Yesterday I wrote about an RIAA lawsuit against someone solely for ripping legally purchased music CDs. Engadget posted an update that the lawsuit is not for ripping CDs, but rather is one of RIAA’s garden-variety MP3 distribution lawsuits. A commenter on their previous post linked to the summary judgement that states as much.
While I pointed [...]

The latest version of Wordpress – version 2.3.2 – has been released. It is mostly a security update. Get it while it’s hot!
Edit: Make that Version 2.3.2, not 2.3.1 – it’s late; I’m tired!

Engadget links to a report that the RIAA is suing someone not for distributing digital copies of music, but for making personal digital copies of legally purchased CDs. Some of the quotes from the RIAA and their lawyers are amazing:
“If you make unauthorized copies of copyrighted music recordings, you’re stealing. You’re breaking the law and [...]

There are lies, damn lies and anything uttered by Donn Rubin.
–Mark Twain, paraphrased
Missouri Coalition for Lifesaving Cures (sic) chairman Donn Rubin has already proven himself to be a spin master, but his latest screed is downright slanderous.
In this op/ed piece (h/t Secondhand Smoke), Rubin lauds recent advancements in stem cell research, in which differentiated (adult) [...]

Recently, social networking site Facebook has undergone intense scrutiny and backlash for the implementation of its third-party advertising system called Beacon.
For those unaware of the Beacon application, here’s a brief primer. Beacon is a JavaScript application used by third-party web sites (such as epicurious, travelocity, blockbuster, etc.) in conjunction with Facebook. The third-party website implements [...]

How’s everyone dealing with the little winter storm that is coming through the midwest? We’re expected to see a total of 6-8 inches of snow.
Oh, and we have no water.
We apparently had a water main break here at the apartment complex. I called the emergency maintenance number about an hour and a half ago [...]

The Indianapolis Star is reporting that Democrat Julia Carson, US Representative for the Indianapolis area, has died, mere weeks after announcing that she would not seek re-election due to her failing health, including apparently terminal lung cancer. Rep. Carson was 69.
While I believe that the people of Indianapolis would be better-served by a representative less [...]

I received some very unexpected news this week, when my mom emailed me to say that my Grandma Carrie had passed away.
Carrie Pilant wasn’t my biological grandmother, but she was, in my mother’s words, the only real mother that my mother knew. Some of my oldest memories are of visits to see Grandma Carrie and [...]