Polaroid warns buyers not to ‘Shake It’ Oh my god.

So, take that you Red Sox fans. Yep, that’s right, we got A-Rod. Remember? The guy you wanted to get so much that you were willing to get rid of No-mar and Manny? Yeah, him. Take a look at our lineup now. Seriously. The series between the bosox and the yanks this year are going to be off the chain.

Cool page on Apple’s site with all of their RSS Information. (via Scripting News)

I keep seeing eTech posts about this great old Wired T-shirt. I have one, and have worn it to the point of it falling apart. For a few years, it was my favorite t-shirt, bought during Wired’s heyday. I wish there was some way to repair or replace it.

13 Reasons To Use Firefox Over IE I switched, a couple of days ago after Firefox was released, my default browser to Firefox from Safari on my Mac OS X laptop. For the most part, I like Firefox better right now. The most striking of these to me are command-up arrow and command-down arrow. The biggest advantage, in my opinion, of Firefox is the extensibility, I love Chris Pederick’s Web Developer toolbar especially, and have played with some of the other extensions that are available.

NetNewswire beta with Atom support posted.

The peecee Unreal Tournament 2004 Demo is available. BOOM!

Well, it looks like it is certain now that Maurice Clarett will be in this year’s NFL draft. Quick background for you non-football folks. This guy was a pretty impressive talent his freshman year at Ohio State. Since then, he has gotten into all sorts of trouble, and been kicked off their team. By the NFL’s current rules, he was still too young to enter the draft, but he sued, and won, based on antitrust rules. This is bad for the NFL, and for college football, as it opens the door for more underclassmen to enter the draft. An excellent example of how this could gut college football can currently be found in the college basketball arena. NBA teams now draft players based on potential, even if they are not currently ready to play at the NBA level. The college basketball landscape is virtually devoid of stars now, because players are going to the NBA straight out of high school. The NFL will almost surely suffer the same fate over time. This will be complicated by the small size of the NFL roster and the amount of injuries that occur in a season. NFL teams cannot generally afford to have roster spots being taken up by players not yet ready to play at the NFL level.

In essence, Clarett had nowhere else to go, and no other choice but to sue the NFL, but he has opened up a pandora's box tha the NFL has managed to keep closed for a very long time. I despise the long term effects his actions will have. I hope that no NFL team drafts him, although I know that that will not happen. I will not attend a game in which he plays, nor will I watch one, or even the highlights of one, on TV. I may decide, also, to boycott whichever franchise drafts him. I can't really have my say in this matter in any other way.

The Falcons, who were a very mediocre 5-11 last season, and looked even worse than that record might imply for most of the season, raised ticket prices today. Mr. Blank, if you were going to raise ticket prices, you should have done it last year when spirits were high about the team, and you had good will to spare. You burned through a lot of that good will last season, and the team looked like crap for the most part, and now you want us to pay more for the product? I’m guessing that this won’t go over well.

Thunderbird is getting a Mac OS X makeover to match Firefox. Hooray!!

Producer Of The Grey Album, Jay-Z/ Beatles Mash-Up, Gets Served (via the always linkalicious waxy.org)

Hey, our site for the 2003 PGA Championship won a Web Standards Award. That’s cool.

I very much enjoyed Heather’s post birth redesign, and her post about pooping.

Boxes and Arrows has a great article on Content Management. I’ll add my comments to this post later, not enought time right now.

David Hyatt has a list of stuff in Safari 1.2 up on his blog type thing today. In the future, I will only be referring to blog type things, and no longer directly to blogs because, after over six years of my own blog type thing, I don’t rightly know what a blog is.

Just a reminder that William Gibson be in Atlanta on Friday.

Thunderbird, the Mozilla based stand-alone mail client, has been updated to 0.5.

“You’ll be installing a program that doesn’t yet exist." Awesome.

More free places to get Wifi in the ATL

Here’s a tip that worked for me today, and it is probably pretty obvious, but since it worked so well, I figured I would point it out. When purchasing a piece of software online today, I noticed, on the checkout page, that there was a form field for a coupon code. So, I did a quick Google search on the name of the software company and the word coupon. Voila, a coupon code for a 40 percent discount presented itself in the first result, and it worked, saving me almost thirty dollars. So, when in doubt, if there is a coupon field, search for a coupon.

Heh, was looking through some of the archives on this site, and I found that you can still purchase Electoral College Shirts, just in time for the new election year.

Glenn Fleishman has released Take Control of Sharing Files in Panther a $10 ebook that covers quite a lot of ground. I’d love to see more of this type of publishing.

I’ve been grooving on the Grey Album for the last couple of days. (This post from Mathowie reminded me to look for it. I had heard about the project about a month before that, but hadn’t thought to look for it where Matt found it.) The concept is pretty simple, Danger Mouse remixed Jay-Z’s Black Album with only samples from The Beatles White Album. The resulting full cd of music is a phenomenal combination of the two, and I would say that it is greater than the sum of its parts, but I have too much respect for the original works. The more familiar with The White Album you are, the more nuggets of listening goodness there seem to be for you. It really is pretty amazing what Danger Mouse managed to create.

Now, having said that, there is a point I would love to make about this. This work cannot be released through normal music distribution channels. The samples would never be cleared, or the sheer cost of licensing them would make it impossible to released. Danger Mouse has taken two pieces of art, and combined them into a new beautifully crafted piece of art which stands out in it's own right. Increasingly, I have been seeking out these types of musical quiltworks. People like Z-Trip and Reset are creating phenomenal pieces of work that is purely derived from source material they could never get clearance for through legal channels. I am forced to wonder how many of these pieces of art that our current music sampling and copyright laws are costing us. There is a capitalistic governor on artistic creations of this kind. It's truly a shame. It is a stark example of what Mr. Lessig has been railing and fighting against for years, and it makes me realize just how important the ability to create derivative works can be.

Is it a bad thing that the fact that Kerry is a Red Sox fan makes me not want to vote for him?