I hate the tv

So Google talk rolled out an interesting feature a while back, to show your friends which song your playing…You can see it here…

Well they use it to track what people are playing and rank music using it.

It seems pretty cool, so I’m not totally against it, but I bet a lot of people don’t know this is going on. And it’s important to remember that this user information is turned directly into money by companies like google.

I didn’t see them mention this to me when doing the software update. Software license agreements are all hocus pocus….click here and we’ll make the hundreds of pages of nasty legalese go away so you can just use the damn program. At least google’s got some blurb up about how you opt-in and opt-out. They’re pretty cool about that.

Ahahhaa

I don’t know WHAT this is; but it’s pretty fun. The end is amazing.

update 3/8/2008: the video was removed from gootube. Here’s some information on this brilliant animation.

Sweeet.

This device looks more and more appealing, but the price of $390 is a bit too high for me, I’m affraid. Maybe I’ll splurge and give it a shot.

Another interesting thing I found in the discussion of this tread is that Tapioca allegedly works with google talk’s VOIP in linux. I’ll give that a try when I get a chance.

Not necessarily work safe.  Mom,  please don’t click on this link that I randomly ran into this via Google Images searching for the Nokia 770. Awesome.

To read up on the history of goatse check it’s wikipedia article.

Streaming media is dominated by a bunch of software companies whose products I don’t want on my computer. I’m a user of firefox, media player classic, ffdshow, media player connectivity, Real Alternative, and others. I do not use IE or Microsoft WMP because they sucks and probably report my viewing habits to homeland security.

For all those sites which don’t work, its nice to know that there is a way of downloading the media to play locally. You can also store copies of your favorites. Use lawfully, you crazy kids.

This page is effectively a diary right now because I have very very few non-robot visitors. For instance, the MSN Robot has visited this page 711 times this month. Thats about 7x the amount of IE users. They’re probably robots too.

It doesn’t bother me, but spam does. I’ve been getting comment spam from assholes trying to sell pills. I installed SpamKarma2, a plugin to WordPress. Installation was painful, but it’s too early for me to judge the product.