The Arctic Monkeys sold 120,000 copies of their first album, making it the fastest selling album in Britain thanks to their Internet saavy. They promoted sites illegally playing their music and gave out demo copies which quickly fanned out across the Net. Take that RIAA.
A blogger put Digg to the test, a test which caused more than 11,000 Diggers to visit the blog within 3 hours, made its web server tremble, and which made the blogger wisely question the so-called “future of journalism and media”.
Malaysia confirmed it will mount an expedition hunting 3m-tall furry black jungle giants known locally as Hantu Jarang Gigi, meaning “ghosts with widely-spaced teeth”. So El Reg says the BBC said.
“TOKYO - Japan has decided to levy punitive import tariffs on computer memory chips made by South Korea’s Hynix Semiconductors Inc, providing the latest - and most symbolic - illustration of how life is getting difficult for once-dominant Japanese chips.
Acting on cries for help from domestic companies struggling with increasingly tough foreign competition, Japan has decided to slap countervailing tariffs of 27.2% on Hynix’s dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips… to become effective on Friday and remain in place for five years…
Japanese semiconductors once dominated the world market, grabbing a combined global market share of more than 50% in the second half of the 1980s… But today, their global market share has plunged to about 20%…”
Asahi is giving away beer pouring robots. Oh to live in such a innovative country.
Sex.com = 12 triệu USD!
TTO - Cuối ngày 26-1, tên miền đắt giá nhất thế giới Sex.com đã được bán ra với giá là 12 triệu USD cho các nhà đầu tư ẩn danh.
[Roughly: TTO (Tuổi Trẻ Online) As Jan.26 ended, the world’s most expensive domain name, sex.com, sold for USD12 million…]
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The Scientist Online includes a report on creating new life-forms by developing artificial cells. Is This Life? covers efforts to create “a growing, dividing, living organism of totally synthetic origins” by Jack Szostak, a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School.
According to the report, “such an entity must meet 12 requirements for life including:
The report is supposed to include a Flash video of attempts at the last two outstanding steps. But it seems to have gone AWOL.
As consolation, PBS Nova’s report Artificial Life, created October 2005, includes Quicktime, RealVideo and Windows Media of a 15-minute segment on AL. And, supposedly, still, Biochemist David Deamer of the University of California, Santa Cruz will answer questions, there, online, about “efforts to make artificial life and what that might tell us about early life on Earth”. Deamer participated in the The-Scientist report this post was originally about.
A comprehensive yet concise list of quickly readable reasons to “migrate” to GNU/Linux from any proprietary operating system, Windows, Unix or other. From Bellevue Linux.
And it’s always good to have some handy numbers to back you up: Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS, FLOSS, or FOSS)? Look at the Numbers! by David A. Wheeler, Revised as of November 14, 2005.
A suitably apropos post and groovy graphic, to do a digg with and launch this HøLUG HO, the HøChiMinh (City) Linux/Liberty/Leisure User Group (HøLUG) Høme Orifice (HO):
INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF TIME
ISTime
A private philosophical institution for Time nature discovery, located in the village site of Barajevo, 37 km south of Belgrade. Founder: Dr Velimir Abramovic
Btw, Dr Abramovic might want to check out the time of his domain registration’s expiry, 27-May-2006 09:50:06 UTC, according to whois.pir.org.
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