Free, from the big labels

October 11, 2007 in Finally, Free Culture, RIAA

Well my post from a couple of days ago should have had a couple more links to free music downloads, in particular this one, as BGG noted:

Big Acts Follow Radiohead’s Lead: Let Their Music Go Free

Rock group Radiohead has started a trend. Nine Inch Nails [...]

Microsoft dooms Software Patents, forever, everywhere

October 11, 2007 in Computing, Microsoft is so stupid, Patents, Web 2.0

Groklaw has the news about Novell and Red Hat being hit by a Patent Infringement lawsuit from a certain ‘IP Innovation LLC”, noting that Ballmer has been making threats in the last week or so:

IP Innovation LLC has just filed a patent infringement claim against Red Hat and Novell. It was filed October 9, [...]

Dennis Kucinich: 3, Bill Richardson: 1, All the rest: 0

October 11, 2007 in 2008 Elections, Link Friday, Web 2.0

Hat Tip: TLF
An interesting web application that the New York Times put on their website allowing you to search the transcript of the Presidential debates for any particular word. You can roll your cursor over the highlighted portions of the text, and you will see that snippet of text, which you can click on [...]