Archive for March, 2009

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Billy Corgan has the right idea, but in the wrong direction.

Posted by wolrah
March 11, 2009

Accord­ing to CNET, Billy Cor­gan (of Smash­ing Pump­kins fame) went in front of Con­gress to argue against the exemp­tion that allows ter­res­trial radio broad­cast­ers to only pay song­writ­ers and pub­lish­ers, but not artists, for the right to play their music. Satel­lite and inter­net broad­cast­ers by com­par­i­son must pay all three.
I’m 100% in favor of making […]

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Goodbye ICQ, it’s been a good run

Posted by wolrah
March 9, 2009

Just a few sec­onds ago I finally cleared the check­box in Adium for my ICQ account. It was my longest-lasting instant mes­sage ser­vice account, hav­ing been active since 1998 or so, and I started using multi-service IM clients like Miranda, Tril­lian, and Adium entirely because I wanted to keep using ICQ even though most […]

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Blasphemy Day International 2009

Posted by wolrah
March 4, 2009

PZ over at Pharyn­gula linked to this Face­book group, so I had to share. Blas­phemy Day Inter­na­tional 2009.