Update

Well sorry I haven't had a chance to update recently, alot has been going on at t he online radio station and with a new gaming/nerdcore network I am a part of.

I am going to be doing some news scouring to bring you the best tho!

Sit tight!

z103 Cacaw for the win!

With music tastes ranging from Nerdcore to 8bit to EBM, the DJ's at z103 Cacaw always have some laffs up their sleeve. If you just want some background sound, or if you want to get on when certain DJ's play for your favorite genre. This station meets both!

www.cacaw.net
http://711chan.org/z103/ (discussion board)


If you are more into being involved in a radio community, then you want to join the z103 Cacaw FM channel on IRC.

server: irc.partyvan.fm
channel: #FM

BANG

Toonami, the hit TV show on Cartoon Network has solemnly closed its doors and left the aether. This is a sad time, as many people (young and old) grew up with Toonami. It was a mainstay for over 11 years.

Now I do not agree with some of the design changes they made over the years, the Tom I will always remember is the short stubby gray/blue guy. But I think its the voice that I had heard most of my 4th-7th grade years that will stick around.



You can watch Tom's closing speech Here.
But I prefer This One because that is what he should look like.

So long old friend. You filled my childhood with memories!

Stay gold...

Bang.

Enzyte and Email. Both under fire.

After several years of prolific growth, Enzyte (and its creator Warshak) has finally come under fire from several different Government agencies, including the FTC, the FBI, and the Postal Inspectors (mail fraud). The FTC sued him back in January, arguing that he had no evidence that his products worked (surprise!) and that his company routinely signed up callers for a monthly subscription plan that was difficult to cancel. More serious charges were brought in September by federal attorneys, who filed a massive, 100+ count indictment against Warshak and his associates, alleging mail and wire fraud.

The government gained access to Warshak's email without a search warrant claiming that email need not be "opened" to be read. Warshak has appealed this action to court.

No decision has yet been made on the email issue. Once it is, Warshak's case will proceed in a lower federal court.


Privacy is becoming a bigger issue, and your privacy is becoming less important. How do you feel about this?


Original Story at The Register

Birthday 9/11/2008

Yes today is my birthday and I have turned 19. So far everything is fine and my friends plan on taking me to a small local amusement park on Sunday.

My brother, his wife, daughter, and dog are over for my birthday, which by default is just great.

My lovely fiance got me a book for my birthday today. This Works of Jules Verne is bound to keep my reading appetite satiated for some time.

Other than that I'm going to get back into my regular schedule of looking for awesome stories for you to read!

Wiki of the future?

I recently took a look at a new Wiki that was designed by Dr Robert Hoffman, an academic psychologist at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition. This Wiki directly links every word to its author.

Hoffman argues that it's difficult to tell who's said what on an ordinary, intensively-edited wiki page. "How could the reader of such an article know who wrote what," he asks. He also reckons that standard methods of wiki administration - as seen most famously, perhaps, at famed online hive-mind 14year old wannabe brainiac Wikipedia - are "an important problem ... first generation wikis... depend on slow and refutable top-down decisions".

"This release is an important proof of principle," says Hoffman. "Our ambitious aim with the Mememoir project is to revolutionize publishing in all of science with a knowledge base that is open access, interdisciplinary and combines the altruistic possibilities of wikis with explicit authorship."

I find this Wiki a promising ideas. There are many fields in which Information accuracy and authorship documentation actually does matter. In these fields anonymity isn't as useful. I don't think it is an awesome invention so much as a common sense invention, however.

Story found Here at The Register.

Blip Festival 2008

What happens when you mix Geeks, an old Nintendo, and a lot of spare time?

Well eventually you get the Blip Festival, a gathering of such Geeks who have found simple enjoyment out of making music with low-res (8 bits anyone?) hardware. It's the elites of the Circuit Benders and just plain Geniuses.

You really should listen to some of this music. The musical nuances they accomplish with this archaic technology are truly impressing.

To find out more about the Blip Festival or to see who is showing up, you should visit their Website.