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"Starting on Oct. 28, (when the other part of the DMCA comes into effect), you could face a civil lawsuit and criminal penalties of up to five years in jail and a fine of $500,000 for reading someone else's textbook." Those sound like fighting words to me. Meanwhile, in other bad news,
Microsoft will customize its Microsoft Reader software for Amazon.com.M.J. Milloy
"This ignorance is profound, and stretches from popular music, to television, to literature, to movies - Quebec culture is a vast terra incognita to the Canadian mind, so foreign that Canadians don't even notice their ignorance. How else to explain why no eyebrows are raised when two English-language, Toronto-based newspapers are fighting over the title of "Canada's National Newspaper"? Last time I checked, they weren't published in French, and no one was readng them in Abitibi." But, whatthefuck, who needs culture when you've got
the Aquibus, Peel Pub, Holy Joe's and strip clubs, right? I can tell you that Disneyland with sex is the real reason I moved back to Montreal, but then real Disneysex would be even better, wouldn't it? (via
mikel)
Anne Kingston on the Disney Wedding Pavillion
"There is no room for irony in the Magic Kingdom. A couple will not hesitate to ask for imagery or music from a doomed love story such as Titanic (though couples outside of Disney wouldn't either) or for a glittering Wizard of Oz theme, the bride wearing ruby-red slippers and unconcerned that Oz is meant to be a facade, a fraudulent concept."
Jeff Hawkins, Handspring
"The Springboard slot was really designed for wireless communications. And you will see a cell phone module available before the end of the year." From the
complain and you shall receive department.
Globe and Mail : Dot-com this!
"Reid hears something else, when his "geek" friends and colleagues are talking. 'Knowledge is what's valued in this industry, and that's how people speak,' he says. 'There's a rapid-fire passing back and forth of facts, it's almost like a pissing contest, in the way it sounds. But it's just exchanging knowledge. There's no wisdom or value attached.' "