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pyPodder Makes Waves

Ok, maybe not waves or even ripples but I've had a couple of plugs for pyPodder [http://ddll.sdf1.net/archives/002784.html] from both Adam Curry [http://www.blognewsnetwork.com/members/0000001/2004/09/09.html#a6520] and Dave Slusher [http://www.evilgeniuschronicles.org/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/

"You Guys Have No Idea What's Down There."

Right of a clive barker horror novel comes the line "You guys have no idea what's down there." This is all in reference to the underground Paris that contains many secrets; one of which has recently been revealed. > There the police found a full-sized cinema

pyPodder 1.3.1 Released

pyPodder is my entry into the foray of similar scripts that take MP3 enclosures from RSS feeds found on sites like Adam Curry's Daily Source Code [http://dailysourcecode.com/] and IT Conversations [http://www.itconversations.com/] and puts those files into a iTunes playlist which you can sync

BanDiDo 'Wins' Free Trip To The US

BanDiDo, leader of the now former DrinkOrDie pirate group is coming to the United States after a long battle to fight extradition from his home land of Australia. All other people involved in the DrinkOrDie bust have already gone through trial and serving their sentences. For Microsoft, I bet they

Year Of Python

Troutgirl says that this is the year of python [http://troutgirl.com/blog/index.php?/archives/45_Year_of_Python.html], and I have to agree. I've been seeing python in the news and blogosphere a lot in recent months. I'm just glad to hear that

Parading Without A Permit

Emmanuel Goldstein, editor and founder of hacker magazine 2600 [http://www.2600.com/] has been arrested in NYC for "parading without a permit," In other words, he and 900 or so other people were marching in protest at the Republican National Convention. I guess the freedom to protest

I'll Be Back For The Rest

HackWire reports [http://www.hackwire.com/comments.php?id=116&catid=2] that Microsoft has been hacked, but this is no run-of-the-mill DOS attack or website defacing, we are talking about the break in to hardware that holds source code to unreleased programs: > A recent break-in to Microsoft&

A Bloggers Worst Nightmare

Troutgirl posted how she got 'terminated [http://troutgirl.com/blog/index.php?/archives/46_Shitcanned.html]' on monday > So I was terminated from Friendster today. The reason given was blogging. She refers to 2 blog [http://troutgirl.com/blog/index.php?/archives/22_Friendster_goes_PHP.html]

Geek Politics

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Scoble Grasping At Straws

In great efforts to help Microsoft sell more tablet computers Scoble says [http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2004/08/31.html#a8173]: > Personally, why get this when you can actually get a Tablet PC that you can take off your desk and walk around with? For instance, the Averatec