25 Feb 2004
Found while cleaning out some dark recesses of my server:
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Downloading of Movies, MP3s and Software is illegal and punishable by law.
We hereby inform you that your computer was scanned under the IP
193.189.57.0 . The contents of your computer were confiscated as an
evidence, and you will be indicated. In the next days you will receive the
charge in writing. In the Reference code: #15007, are all files, that we
found on your computer.
The sender address of this mail was masked, to fend off mail bombs.
- You get more detailed information by the Federal Bureau of Investigation
-FBI-
- Department for "Illegal Internet Downloads", Room 7350
- 935 Pennsylvania Avenue
- Washington, DC 20535, USA
- (202) 324-3000
Attached was a virus.
31 Jan 2004
One thing I would love to have in my MonoLoco music app is a feature
mentioned at the top of Aaron’s interview “what bands that my friends
like are playing around here in the next week?”. The idea would be that the
app knows your friend because you IM program and email program have been
creating a certialized FOAF file for you (hey maybe your phone is bluetoothing
info about who you talk to the most as well), so you can collect who you talk
to a lot (at least via computer). Hopefull you talk to your friends a lot and
don’t spend all your time flaming people. Then MonoLoco knows who you and your
“friends” listen to (maybe you want to know what the people you flame listen
to as well), using MusicBrainz identifiers to catalog it. It should also
use a yet to be written feature of Musicbrainz to find the bands homepage, and
then MonoLoco will autodiscover their RSS feed with news (which monoloco will
display on screen while you play that bands songs), and another for tour info.
If the tour feed is done will it will have links right to where you can buy a
ticket.
The UI for deciding who to share your MonoLoco info with would idealy
piggyback your IM client.
31 Jan 2004
This interview with AarowSw is probably the most intresting thing I’ll
read all day. Great thoughts on the S-Web, tribes in human culture and
just what Arron has been up to.
[later] One thing I would love to have in my MonoLoco music app is a
feature mentioned at the top “what bands that my friends like are playing
around here in the next week?”. The idea would be that the app knows your
friend because you IM program and email program have been creating a
certialized FOAF file for you (hey maybe your phone is bluetoothing info about
how you talk to the most as well), so you can collect who you talk to a lot
(at least via computer). Then MonoLoco knows who you listen to, using
MusicBrainz identifiers to catalog it. It should also use a yet to be
written feature of Musicbrainz to find the bands homepage, and autodiscover
their RSS file with news (which monoloco will display on screen while you play
that bands songs), and another for tour info.
29 Jan 2004
One of my favorite authors, Warren Ellis, linked an an article about
dying languages, a topic dear to my heart. I work at Shellbook Publishing
Systems were we are writing a program that might go along what to preserve
these languages. The idea is that a person understands information best in
their mother tongue, and 20 percent of the world’s population speak one of
6,000 lesser-known languages. Our software enables speakers of these smaller
languages to adapt books into their own language.
Um, speaking of which I have deadline tomorrow, so back to the dungon…
28 Jan 2004
I’m now subscribe to cypherpunks@al-qaeda.net. Beyond funny. 4 horsemen of the infoapocalypse and all that.