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Microsoft's market share starting to slip?
Bruce Springsteen speaks out in defense of Dixie Chicks
The Bush Doctrine: War without anyone's permission
So much for free speech in the US: Lawyer arrested over anti-war T-shirt
Mac addicts have some interesting fetishes...
Janis Ian follows up her peer-to-peer vs musicians vs music industry article
News from Loony Tunes land: Hacking made legal for Hollywood
Deep linking outlawed in Denmark
The real story about how peer-to-peer affect musicians
Heard about Palladium?

Microsoft's market share starting to slip?
Interesting article by Charlie Demerjian about the shift in the IT industry away from Microsoft and toward Open Source: The IT industry is shifting away from Microsoft Every so often, there is a big shift in an industry. The shifts... (3 comment(s))

Bruce Springsteen speaks out in defense of Dixie Chicks
On his own website - brucespringsteen.net, Bruce speaks up about the treatment the Dixie Chicks have received after openly opposing the war against Iraq. He writes:The Dixie Chicks have taken a big hit lately for exercising their basic right to... (16 comment(s))

The Bush Doctrine: War without anyone's permission
Slate : The Bush Doctrine: War without anyone's permission. By Michael Kinsley [...] Bush is asserting the right of the United States to attack any country that may be a threat to it in five years. And the right of... (11 comment(s))

So much for free speech in the US: Lawyer arrested over anti-war T-shirt
Times Online: Shooting the messenger: lawyer arrested over anti-war T-shirt POLICE have arrested a 60-year-old lawyer wearing a T-shirt saying “Give Peace A Chance”. A judge charged Stephen Downs with trespassing after he politely declined to leave the Crossgates Mall... (6 comment(s))

Mac addicts have some interesting fetishes...
Wired writes about fetishists that really love their Macs and links to a very interesting/disturbing archive of soft porn Mac desktop images: Mac Desktop Pictures : Erotics Desktop... (0 comment(s))

Janis Ian follows up her peer-to-peer vs musicians vs music industry article
About a month after her initial article (that was actually written in may 2002), Janis has written an equally interesting article: FALLOUT - a follow up to The Internet Debacle Its nice to see all the reactions she got, and... (0 comment(s))

News from Loony Tunes land: Hacking made legal for Hollywood
I am sorry, but I have a hard time taking serious the bill proposal from Californian congressman Howard Berman that would give the entertainment industry the right to hack computers and networks to stop people from downloading music and movies... (5 comment(s))

Deep linking outlawed in Denmark
I saw this on friday and couldn't belive my eyes, and I have been using the time since I saw the news about the Danish Court decision to make a pre-luminary injunction against the search engine Newsbooster.com for the use... (5 comment(s))

The real story about how peer-to-peer affect musicians
Janis Ian writes an alternative perception of the music industry and their "problems" with peer-to-peer networks: If you think about it, the music industry should be rejoicing at this new technological advance! Here's a fool-proof way to deliver music to... (0 comment(s))

Heard about Palladium?
In case you haven't heard about it. Lets first start with the marketing hype about this new concept from Redmond:Palladium is intended to become a new platform for a host of yet-unimagined services to enable privacy, commerce and entertainment in... (0 comment(s))

Simplistic IBM?
"Simplifying Tasks" is a cool poster about ease of use and simplifying tasks, its just too bad that the people that made their web pages obviously haven't understood the concept. IBM - Ease of Use - Simplifying Tasks Check out... (0 comment(s))

Deep linking
Doc Searls and John Dowdell is two of many that have picked up on the interesting linking policy over at NPR.org What are organizations thinking when they start to tell people to ask for permission before linking? And what are... (0 comment(s))

Beam me up scotty - soon reality?
Not quite, but Nando Times reports that Australian scientists claim to have 'teleported' a laser beam... (3 comment(s))

The war on terror statement
I promise that I won't be peddeling politics on my weblog. But this statement on the war on terror from some prominent americans deserves some attention: We won't deny our consciences... (5 comment(s))

Fight the CBDTPA
The Electronic Frontier Foundation Action Center has chosen to use Flash to make a fun animation about the CBDTPA, but the issue is serious enough. Big media corporations are trying to take away ownership from the consumers and make you... (0 comment(s))

OpenOffice 1.0
At the beginning of this month OpenOffice released version 1.0 of their office suite. I haven't had the time to check it out before now. I used to use Sun's StarOffice (which is now out in version 6.0, selling for... (0 comment(s))

More Internet Explorer vulnerabilities
If you are a Windows/Internet Explorer user, please pay attention. Quote from the Technote: Impact of vulnerability: Six new vulnerabilities, the most serious of which could allow code of attacker's choice to run. Solution? Get the 2 MB security fix... (0 comment(s))

Not surprising
How Microsoft Went After Linux Kempin recommended that computer makers who were not "friendly" with Microsoft should be hit "harder than in the past with anti-Linux actions." Somehow I am neither shocked nor surprised.... (0 comment(s))

Macromedia VS Adobe 1-1
The battle in the courts move on, and this time Macromedia scores. Yahoo - Macromedia Wins Patent Counterclaims Trial Against AdobeMacromedia, Inc. (Nasdaq: MACR - News) today announced that a jury ruled in its favor in a counterclaims suit against... (0 comment(s))

Hoopla and Verisign
Seems it is wise to stay far away from Verisign. On a related note, we have been moving domains from Verisign for a while at Webhead since Verisign has failed to supply us with anything resembling an ISP tool. We... (0 comment(s))

eMacs for everyone?
Wired writes today: Grads Want to Study on EMacs, Too Too bad its not for sale in Norway. A G4 for $1.000 would have been something. If you are a student in the US; congrats!... (0 comment(s))

Macromedia MX
Macromedia has a bunch of announcements today. Hopefully all the new exciting stuff won't overwhelm people too much. The press releases (for those of you that are inclined to read those): Macromedia Unveils New Integrated Product Family Macromedia Studio MX... (0 comment(s))

Hole-in-the-wall
India: Hole-in-the-Wall An Indian physicist puts a PC with a high speed internet connection in a wall in the slums and watches what happens. Based on the results, he talks about issues of digital divide, computer education and kids, the... (0 comment(s))

More security problems found in IE
If you are using Internet Explorer as your browser, using the back button could expose you to malicious code. Microsofts reaction? «because the proposed exploit scenario is dependent upon specific user interaction as a prerequisite, it does not meet our... (0 comment(s))

Not enought hours in the day?
Los Angeles Times writes: What if you could take a pill and stretch your day--by skipping sleep? That sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but a drug called Provigil could make it possible. Studies have shown that this new... (0 comment(s))

Music machines
Wired has an interesting article in their latest issue, about 6 machines that changed the music world. Its all about how technology made to do one thing, ends up doing something completely different and at the same time makes a... (0 comment(s))

Apache 2.0.35 released
Apache 2.0.35 (0 comment(s))

Apple got it again
Bluetooth done right? (0 comment(s))

What to expect from PlayStation 3...
CTO of Sony talks about the next generation of Playstation (97 comment(s))

Copy Protection Bill Introduced
If you thought the Digital Millennium Copyright Act was bad, wait till you read about the the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act (CBDTPA). This law could have crippeling effect on computer eqiptment and use of it - not... (0 comment(s))

Not a good day..
Google bowing for scientologiest, and orbz having to shut down because of idiots.. (0 comment(s))

More golden quotes from Microsoft
Microsoft quotes.. :-) (0 comment(s))

Balmers idea of a warmer, friendlier Microsoft
Balmers idea of a warmer and friendlier Microsoft seems to be about complaining about competitors and getting them kicked out of the CeBit exhibition ... PlayStation 2 gets kicked out of CeBit - rc6.org... (0 comment(s))

Leave it to the germans..
.. to invent a videogame where the whole point is to literally shock, burn and lash your opponent into submission.. No Pain, No Game... (0 comment(s))

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Anders Jacobsen - Fellow norwegian blogging in English from France. Anders blogs about "Noteworthy URLs, science, software, news, life, the universe, everything"
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