Once again, German engineering perfection has me dropping my jaw… Stumbled onto photos from:
I have never seen anything like this – it is seriously cool! Can you believe those immaculate floors and assembly areas?! This is amazing.
Google released what looks to be a very useful piece of software around noon today: the Google Web Toolkit. Bret Taylor broke the news on the Google Blog. As those of us who work in web development know, AJAX is a pain to code and deploy. With the Google Web Toolkit, you can write the code in Java, then convert it to browser-compliant JavaScript and HTML on the fly. Nice!
The New York Times is running a piece on a French teenager by the name of Aziz Ridouan. He has managed to convince the politicians to listen to him when it comes to digital music. He’s only 18 years old, and he’s already founded the Audionautes, a non-profit organization that provides legal assistance to those accused of illegally downloading music. Aziz says most politicians don’t even know what downloading is. That’s shocking, and when I say this, I doubt that only the French politicians are clueless. I think politicians the world over have no real concept of digital music, and iPods, and streaming music over computer networks, or downloading stuff from the Internet and sharing it with your friends.
Yet – and here comes the shocker – they’re making laws about this stuff! It’s no wonder the stuff they put out here in the States is so inane. They’re getting only one side of the story – from the RIAA and organizations like it, NOT from their constituents. At least in France, the land of political paradoxes, they’re willing to listen to a child, an immigrant, and a poor one at that, all rolled into one. Amazing! Kudos to Aziz for helping them get it!
I submitted a press release a couple of days ago through PRWEB, and it’s been up all day today. Here’s a link to it. I’m pretty excited about it, and I hope the story will get picked up by the media. Any attention should help increase people’s awareness of my site and my content, and that would be a great thing!
Summary: Hurrah! ComeAcross is live! — Caveat Emptor, Davison Inventegration — The harmonica players in “One in a Million” — Star salaries coming down in Hollywood — How to steal someone’s identity with the aid of the US government — Google Translation is fantastic! — “Rhapsody in Blue” (1945) — An example of cable management — Goss resigns as CIA Director — The story of Comeacross and Doublecross — British court backs extradition of so-called “Pentagon Hacker” — The NSA wire-tapping scandal — A review of My Life of Travel — Video of “The William Tell Overture”, played with hands.
Raoul Pop 