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Entries for week beginning June 18, 2006

June 24, 2006

View from the State Street Pavillion

View from the State Street Pavillion

Managed to get a pair of "Standing Room" tickets in the "State Street Pavillion" at Fenway. Since it was a pretty grey day, not everyone had shown up, so we had seats for the whole game. Result!

June 23, 2006

Guardian Unlimited | Supposing … It’s OK to lie for the sheer hell of it

“Get angry if they don’t believe you. They will eventually. They always do.”

June 21, 2006

Pitchfork Feature: 100 Awesome Music Videos

Does what it says on the tin. Pitchfork scoured YouTube for 100 awesome videos, skipping over your usual suspects like Jonez, Cunningham and Gondry.

DIRECTV - TITANIUM

Get every single thing DirecTV broadcasts for a $7,500 annual payment. How much pr0n would you have to watch to break even on this deal?

beforethirty: managers job

Application for the position of Middlesborough Football Club, based on “vast experience (on Football Manager 2005)”. Gets an excellent response.

June 20, 2006

Warioware Smooth Moves - E3 footage of the game.

Sweet Jeebus, this looks like fun.

Daring Fireball: Interoperability and DRM Are Mutually Exclusive

“The industry’s idea of a “perfect” DRM scheme is one that is not controlled by either Apple or Microsoft, and which gives only them (the record industry) complete control over what users can do with their downloads. Such a scheme does not exist, and it does not exist because it isn’t possible.”

June 19, 2006

Pyrcast

Stream ripper for Pandora. Specify a station and a playlist length, and get a stash of MP3s to copy to your MP3 player. Countdown to DMCA letter….

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Guardian offers downloadable news digest

Grauniad to offer easily-print-outable on-demand PDF news digest.

June 18, 2006

Luggage Tags - with Attitude

“I’m Pretty Sure This Isn’t Your Bag”, “Nothing Worth Stealing In Here”, and more.

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