Music Scholar Barred From U.S., but No One Will Tell Her Why - New York Times
But the door has remained closed to Ms. Ghuman, an assistant professor at Mills College in Oakland, Calif., who is British and who had lived, studied and worked in this country for 10 years before her abrupt exclusion.
(tags: badgov immigration [...]
xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe
(tags: comics graph xkcd)
Attytood: UPDATED: Meet the future savior of journalism: “FamousWriterMan@aol.com”, a/k/a Taserman “The Andrew Meyer”
And one night in the slammer. And uttering what surely will become the catch phrase for these tortured times: “Don’t taze me, bro!”
The Good:
network-manager (nm-applet) finally works for my chipset (cisco aironet) and for my network (UNC-1). Yaaaaay easy, working wireless!
Fonts look nicer.
Pidgin >> Gaim. I left my /home partition untouched when installing gutsy, and pidgin picked everything up from my ~/.gaim just fine.
Boot time ever-so-slightly faster. From grub splash to GDM prompt is 54 seconds on [...]
Times to Stop Charging for Parts of Its Web Site - New York Times
“But our projections for growth on that paid subscriber base were low, compared to the growth of online advertising,” said Vivian L. Schiller, senior vice president and general manager of the site, NYTimes.com.
(tags: duh nytimes journalism business)
With apologies for the noise during the interview bits, enjoy the video:
From The Magazine : Radar Online : Cory Doctorow imagines a world in which Google is evil
The batteries on his iPod had long since died, leaving him with nothing to do except eavesdrop on the middle-age couple ahead of him. “The marvels of modern technology,” said the woman, shrugging at a nearby sign: Immigration—Powered by [...]
Time to upgrade Ubuntu on the laptop. Just can’t wait anymore. *rolls up sleeves*
Music 2.0 - Exploring Chaos in Digital Music » Trent Reznor gives Rip-off Avoidance, Download & Share advice to fans
Hence NIN has built up an outstanding website not only to communicate directly with fans but with a view to making it easy to access their music at a fair price once NIN’s label dues are [...]
I remember middle school. I remember listening to this song on a cassette tape. I feel… dated.
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Perú makes the list in the top 10 and again in the top 30. :’(
