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Blocked from my own blog…

Thursday, December 6th, 2007 Posted in General Media / Stuff, Self Reference | Comments

Its been awhile since my last post. Work has been keeping me on my toes and for the last month I have been spending all my time developing Functional and Technical Specifications. All that writing was getting to ...

Quick update…

Thursday, October 25th, 2007 Posted in Fake Science, General Media / Stuff, max 2007 | Comments

Things have been crazy hectic for me over the last few weeks. The big news is that we have decided to close down the Fake Science store. For more details check out my post on the FS Blog ...

I’ve been screwed by DRM

Monday, September 24th, 2007 Posted in Digital Rights Management, General Media / Stuff | Comments

Over the last three and a half years I have been commenting on how bad Digital Rights Management (DRM) is. I have ranted on the Fake Science Lab Report, kvetched on the Fake Science Blog and finally I have ...

*yawn* oh, hello

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006 Posted in General Media / Stuff | Comments

I am back... kinda.  I do want to blog more but between my day job and Fake Science all my free cycles are pretty much sucked up.  For the moment, I want to throw out a few quick links to ...

The Scent of Burnt Electronics

Tuesday, September 19th, 2006 Posted in General Media / Stuff, Music, djing | Comments

The last 7 days have been... interesting.  Lots of good and lots of bad.  Wednesday I went to the False Profit Equity happy hour to play a nice downtempo set.  I had been working on the set for a while, ...

The future of Wi-Fi

Wednesday, September 6th, 2006 Posted in Distribution, General Media / Stuff, Music, Satellite Radio | Comments

Last night, before the weekly FS evening meeting Maer, Chris and I started discussing a recent article in the NY Times that Christopher had sent out to all the Fake Scientists.  The article focuses on the new "tastemakers" and services ...

Anti-DRM day

Friday, September 1st, 2006 Posted in Digital Rights Management, Distribution, General Media / Stuff | Comments

Defective By Design (DBD), an anti-DRM (Digital Rights Management) organization, is proposing a "Day Against DRM" in which they want to organize a massive online and meetspace awareness day. Some of you may have already heard or even seen some ...

AC Transit to offer WiFi

Monday, August 28th, 2006 Posted in General Media / Stuff | Comments

Usually I don't post about technology, that's really not the purpose of this blog, but man this is too exciting not to post about:  Public transport in the San Francisco Bay Area is to join the 21st ...

Fake Science Remix Contest — Vote now!!

Monday, August 28th, 2006 Posted in Distribution, General Media / Stuff, Music | Comments

A while back I announced the Fake Science and Monkey Love Records Remix contest. Over the last 2 months we were taking submissions and we have now closed the submission process and voting is open to the public!  You can ...

Re-education

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2006 Posted in Distribution, General Media / Stuff, Music | Comments

Sometimes your initial impression of a service is just off. When I first heard of Magnatune a few years back I thought they were a digital music store that worked with unsigned artists. Too be perfectly honest, they where a ...