One of the coolest features in iTunes is that I can keep all my music on a central server and listen to it from all the other machines in my house. Now someone has figured out the protocol apple uses for sharing music in iTunes and set it up so that you can share out your music from a linux box. I’ve got a few friends who have been looking for this kinda thing.

So I was just making a cup of coffee and started to pour the milk in and it was kind of, well, lumpy. I started to think “EWW. GROSS.” when I noticed that it was actually just half frozen so a little slushy. Phew.

I kind of forgot this page existed for a while. But was reminded of it upon discovering Allconsuming.net, which lets me track the books I’m reading currently. And I did finish Hard Boiled Wonderland and loved it. I remember that it didn’t end the way I expected, which I liked a lot.

Gizmodo points to a post that offers a different view on the cost of the iPod Mini. And I think it definitely makes sense, it really depends on what you’re looking for. Size or Capacity.

Martians
Mole People
Hobbits
(Thanks to Ellen for the Hobbits link)

Looking for somewhere to eat late at night. Check out LUNARAMA, a growing directory of all-night restaurants and joints. If you don’t see your favorite spot on there, feel free to contribute it! Pretty keen. I found out about a place in Hartford that I’ll need to check out.

(Ooops, Thanks to Carinah for this link.)

Proving once again that there is something for everyone on the net. We have the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (aka VHEMT (pronounced vehement)).

Q: What is the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement?

VHEMT (pronounced vehement) is a movement not an organization. It’s a movement advanced by people who care about life on planet Earth. We’re not just a bunch of misanthropes and anti-social, Malthusian misfits, taking morbid delight whenever disaster strikes humans. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Voluntary human extinction is the humanitarian alternative to human disasters.

We don’t carry on about how the human race has shown itself to be a greedy, amoral parasite on the once-healthy face of this planet. That type of negativity offers no solution to the inexorable horrors which human activity is causing.

Rather, The Movement presents an encouraging alternative to the callous exploitation and wholesale destruction of the Earth’s ecology.

As VHEMT Volunteers know, the hopeful alternative to the extinction of millions of species of plants and animals is the voluntary extinction of one species: Homo sapiens… us.

Each time another one of us decides to not add another one of us to the burgeoning billions already squatting on this ravaged planet, another ray of hope shines through the gloom.

When every human chooses to stop breeding, Earth’s biosphere will be allowed to return to its former glory, and all remaining creatures will be free to live, die, evolve (if they believe in evolution), and will perhaps pass away, as so many of Mother Nature’s “experiments” have done throughout the eons. Good health will be restored to the Earth’s ecology… to the “life form” known by many as Gaia.

It’s going to take all of us going. [VHEMT: About the Movement]

I am just speechless about The Surreal Life.

Jerome K. Jerome: “It is always the best policy to speak the truth–unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.” [Quotes of the Day]

I’m catching up on some past news and found some stuff about a kid who was suspended from school for using NET SEND. Yes, the NET SEND that was part of DOS (and still exists in Windows today I believe) is considered hacking.

Hey! Where’s the problem?

Hey!

On its face, that expression is neither offensive nor disturbing. “Hey!” is an informal way to say hello. It indicates kindness, simple courtesy and an economy of words.

But a 13-year-old boy at Richland Middle School in Richland Hills was suspended for three days in December because he sent that simple message to every computer in the school using an archaic form of instant messaging. The software was created years ago in the old disk operating system used in earlier versions of personal computers. [Star-Telegram]

The boy’s dad has put up a site covering the whole incident, it’s pretty funny (and sad). All I could think of as I read off of this is that I’d be so screwed if I was going through school these days.