The Null Device
2000/5/19
The transcript of a TV debate between rap impresario/cultural theorist Chuck D and Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, about Napster and file trading.
The Japanese have some weird computer game concepts. Take, for example, MaciGame, in which the goal is to put panties on a cartoon cat's head. (Kibo, via RobotWisdom)
Another Null Device: This one's an industrial/EBM/synthpop band, one of whose members is type designer Eric "Kiwi Media" Oehler (whose fonts have become a goth-club-flyer cliché).
"...Wrong daughter." Some US legislators want to restrict online genealogical databases, because some people use their mother's maiden name or similar as a password, and such databases make it easier for cyberterrorists to find out people's passwords and wreak havoc. Give me a break. Using something that is public knowledge as a secret password is stupidity, much in the same way as writing your bank PIN number in your phone book. And anyone who thinks that their mother's maiden name is a secret is deluding themselves.