From the “Wow-That’s-Random” department…
Kanye West and Peter Bjorn and John on stage together performing “Young Folks”. The audio quality sucks, but it’s pretty wild nonetheless. Enjoy:

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via Pitchfork

I’m usually not one to celebrate others misfortunes, but seeing the fire sale of SCOX (the stock listing for the SCO Group) gives me a tingle of joy. The SCO Group has been threatening Linux users with lawsuits on grounds that Linux contained “millions of lines” of copyright infringing code from UNIX, a copyright [...]

I have been thinking about why I like video games. What’s the common thread? I play pretty much all genres (Sports, RPG, FPS, Strategy, Racing, Puzzle, etc). I enjoy a high-production, 50-hour game and I like 15-minute little flash games. I like all the consoles. I like both beautifully rendered CGI [...]

The Post is reporting that the TimesSelect content at NYT.com is going to be opened up to the public. Now everyone will have access to the op-ed, archives, and other exclusive content. NYT is tearing down the paywall. I think this is huge, and I have been advocating for this change for [...]

My Twitter followers page just cracked 100. Cruising through it and seeing everyone who knows what I’m doing all the time is wild. I don’t know who a bunch of these people are, but at least I have some way to identify them if I really wanted to (in other words, I have [...]

The NYTimes has a piece on multimillionaires dissatisfaction with their wealth in comparison to their peers in Silicon Valley. It’s both scary and funny for the same reasons.
But, I don’t believe this phenomenon is limited to the valley. For example, I have heard of east coast VCs saying that you can’t [...]

Dateline sent a mole to DefCon:
DefCon security on Friday warned attendees at the annual hacker conference that Dateline NBC may have sent a mole with a hidden camera to the event to capture hackers admitting to crimes. [Via Wired]
The main point of contention appears to be that Michelle Madigan, the undercover Dateline producer, violated [...]

I work in a building that contains one of many Verizon Wireless corporate offices. Typically, I’m irked by the Verizon floor because it stops on the elevator a lot (I’m on 14, and they’re on 11) and the employees are quite loud.
However, today I was really happy to ride with a group [...]