… I think its high time that the RIAA is not referenced by its name but rather by its members. Imagine how much it would hurt someone like Sony if each time a bad article, comment or story reached the masses it had the words representing Sony in the title. Enough of that would force a brand to leave the RIAA group because it was too damaging to their brand name.
Here are the RIAA members, headed by EMI, Sony, Universal and Warner.
A map of GDP per square kilometer across the world.
Firstly, views on the Apple iPhone: great. Next impression: not so great. You can’t use it with your eyes closed. And yesterday, Cisco sues Apple for iPhone trademark infringement. In a video on intellectual property, James Boyle at Duke Law School says, when a company starts suing over intellectual property, it’s a good time to dump their stock.
A bunch of kids draw a collage of Angelina Jolie. Interesting kids’ project for schools.
A cool psychology experiment. A student asks someone for directions. People carrying a door pass between them. Students switch. They check if the person giving directions has noticed that it’s a different person. Many people don’t notice the switch.
How hackers are using Google to pwn your site. Includes a very practical example of how to use Google Code Search to hack a MySQL account.
There are three English words ending in “-gry”. Two are “angry” and “hungry”. What is the third one?
This is the park in front of my office in the evening. Fog completely covered London this week. Visibility: 200 ft. Hypnotic.
Windows has a “Yes to all” in some of its dialogs — for example when replacing files. Here’s how you can simulate a “No to all”. (Just shift-click the “No” button).
xRez has some stunning, large (gigapixel-sized) panoramas that you can zoom into using the Google Maps interface. It’s similar to the Gigapixel project, I think.