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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.