Award hails 'unknown' comedy star

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Firebird: a famous but 'unknown' Open
Source database

Firebird: a famous but 'unknown' Open
Source database 09/30/2002 01:53 PM
- By Robin "Roblimo" Miller - Look at almost any IT news site, including this one, and it's easy to get the impression that MySQL and PostgreSQL are the only mature, fully usable Open Source databases out there. This is not true. Firebird is not only mature, fully usable, and Open Source, but claims an estimated one million installations worldwide. If you've never heard of Firebird, it's probably because you know it by its old, proprietary name: ...

FinePrint 5 Earns 5-Star Review and
Bityard Choice Award as "One of the Most
Innovative Software Printing Drivers" -
Reduces Paper Waste and Improves
Printing Efficiency

FinePrint 5 Earns 5-Star Review and
Bityard Choice Award as "One of the Most
Innovative Software Printing Drivers" -
Reduces Paper Waste and Improves
Printing Efficiency 07/26/2004 03:37 AM
Bityard, a popular online technology news & reviews magazine, has awarded FinePrint Software’s FinePrint 5 its highest rating, along with a “Bityard Choice” award. [PRWEB Jul 26, 2004]

Award winning LINKdotNET grabs another
worldwide award for customer experience
of the year 2004 from Microsoft

Award winning LINKdotNET grabs another
worldwide award for customer experience
of the year 2004 from Microsoft 08/04/2004 07:52 AM
AME Info Aug 4 2004 12:31PM GMT

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:Superior
Performance Brings National Call Center
Award - 24-7 INtouch Wins the 2004 ATSI
Award of Distinction

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:Superior
Performance Brings National Call Center
Award - 24-7 INtouch Wins the 2004 ATSI
Award of Distinction 07/11/2004 02:10 AM
24-7 INtouch, a multi-channel call center outsourcing company, was honored with the prestigious 2004 Call Center Award of Distinction by the Association of Teleservices International (ATSI). 24-7 INtouch was also the recipient of the 2004 ATSI Award of Excellence and was one of the only four other companies to receive both awards. [PRWEB Jul 11, 2004]

Comedy

Comedy 12/24/2004 12:21 PM
Being in touch with the absurdity of life got to lead to the absurdity of form. Dave Eggers discusses the Monty Pythons’ brand of comedy.

A Comedy of Justice

A Comedy of Justice 01/04/2004 11:55 PM
James Branch Cabell's Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice. One of the many treasures at Documenting the American South. Mike Keith's James Branch Cabell Page (Mike Keith has also performed and recorded an obscure symphony based on Jurgen). Owlcroft's overview of Cabell's work.

BBC - Comedy - The Office

BBC - Comedy - The Office 12/31/2003 08:28 PM
"Pressure - not as easy as it looks." - David Brent .. Two lesbians. Sisters. Me watching .. The Office, has it's own web site .. Tim & Dawn forever .. best show on television .. local authority admin .. Office .. Maybe

bbc.co.uk/comedy/theoffice
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Out With The Old, In With The New; A
Comedy Of Eras

Out With The Old, In With The New; A
Comedy Of Eras 07/05/2004 07:11 PM
By Sean Cohen, OSNews.com (via MyAppleMenu)

Comedy Central

Comedy Central 05/30/2004 12:03 PM
Its members skew white, male and elderly, but the Friars Club at 100 remains the nation's premier home to comedians. And its jokes still make the ladies blush.

Comedy of Errors

Comedy of Errors 08/09/2004 07:19 AM
My family loves Shakespeare & Co. up in Lenox where we're currently on vacation. We've been going to its performances for about twenty years now. A couple of nights ago, we saw a preview of Comedy of Errors. (Hint: It's the one with the two Dromios, no Rosalind, and doesn't take place in Verona.) Shakespeare & Co.'s performances are always lively, bawdy, and understandable. The troupe is first rate. Their performances IMO feel like Shakespeare as he was seen by his contemporaries. Yet, this performance wasn't my favorite. Too much mugging, too broad, too hectic. Yes, it's a farce with...

What's the secret of comedy?

What's the secret of comedy? 02/01/2005 09:56 PM
I'm cursed. Just one day after my new book on RSS and Atom went into production, a new version of RSS 1.0 was released: RSS 1.1 It wouldn't be so bad, but the Atom project released a new draft...

Sony vs. The PSP Importers - A Comedy

Sony vs. The PSP Importers - A Comedy 06/24/2005 04:03 PM

Welcome to cuckoo world! Sony, in all their majestic wisdom, has decided to hunt down and kill PSP importers in the UK. Let's read this, shall we? "The Japanese electronics giant Sony is demanding that companies importing its hotly anticipated PlayStation Portable to Britain reveal their customers' identities so the equipment can be tracked down."

Now, why would they do this? Because they are crazy? Because Sony CEO Sir Howard Lancelot Stringer Esq. has finally gone all Howard Hughes on us? Are those purchasers of Japanese PSPs in there on the Rainy Isle using them to mount an offensive against the Sony Yakuza stronghold or are they attempting to pay $400 for a game device. Next week: Sony kills and eats babies.

Sony bid to stop grey imports [Guardian]

UPDATE - Ok, so they don't eat babies so much.

Comedy = Tapeworm + Time

Comedy = Tapeworm + Time 05/09/2004 12:30 AM
"There was nothing to do but to wrap great gobs of toilet paper securely around my hand, swallow hard, again reach down, again get a grip on the thin and slippery thing, and tug." (05-09)

Comedy = Tragedy + Distance

Comedy = Tragedy + Distance 12/19/2003 11:36 AM
To say that The Conqueror, the Howard Hughes-backed film about Ghengis Kahn with John Wayne as the lead, is an awful film is somewhat of an understatement. Bad acting in the hot Nevada desert surrounded by radiation from the Yucca Flats lead to around 90 people getting cancer and 30 dying from it. They even shipped radioactive sand back to Hollywood for extra scenes. Lost in La Mancha doesn't seem so bad in retrospect.

"RUPERT!!!!!!!!!! PRODUCES A PC
COMEDY!!!!!!!!!!"

"RUPERT!!!!!!!!!! PRODUCES A PC
COMEDY!!!!!!!!!!" 05/30/2004 08:39 PM

CNN.com - 'Friends': The most overrated
comedy ever - Feb. 12, 2004

CNN.com - 'Friends': The most overrated
comedy ever - Feb. 12, 2004 02/17/2004 04:00 AM
“Friends”: The most overrated comedy ever .. it still sucks .. is

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Gone to the Dogs: a new British comedy
film

Gone to the Dogs: a new British comedy
film 04/01/2005 03:52 AM
What breed of dog are you? .. que tipo de perro sera .. Gone to the Dogs

gone2thedogs.com
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Comedy remake tops US box office

Comedy remake tops US box office 03/28/2005 06:01 AM
The comedy Guess Who, which updates Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, heads the US box office.

Man-and-Robot standup comedy in Japan

Man-and-Robot standup comedy in Japan 04/29/2004 11:28 PM
BoingBoing pal Steve Portigal points us to "a demo of Japanese speaking robot technology, presented as a duo-standup routine featuring one of Japan's well-known comics. The robot is called PaPeJiro. So, if the robot kills - does that violate [Isaac Asimov's] Three Laws [of Robotics]?" Link

Animated Comedy Giant Celebrates 300

Animated Comedy Giant Celebrates 300 02/13/2003 10:14 AM
The Simpsons" has won 18 Emmy awards, 16 Annie awards and a Peabody. It was Google's most searched-for television show of 2002. ...

Seriously: Kerry on Comedy Central
(washingtonpost.com)

Seriously: Kerry on Comedy Central
(washingtonpost.com) 08/27/2004 01:45 PM

Stars to Perform at N.Y. Comedy Festival
(AP)

Stars to Perform at N.Y. Comedy Festival
(AP) 09/16/2004 07:01 PM
AP - On the heels of the Republican National Convention, New York City is being invaded by comedians. "I'll have more protesters," Drew Carey told The Associated Press by phone Wednesday. "But I doubt there'll be any extra police."

Reagan's Film Career Had Comedy, Drama
(AP)

Reagan's Film Career Had Comedy, Drama
(AP) 06/05/2004 04:36 PM
AP - Ronald Reagan's boy-next-door quality as an actor brought him film roles as diverse as the victim of an evil surgeon in "King's Row" and the college professor who experiments with raising a chimpanzee in the comedy "Bedtime for Bonzo."

Chris Rock stars in HBO comedy special

Chris Rock stars in HBO comedy special 04/14/2004 05:20 PM

Comedy Central Renews Deal With
Chappelle (AP)

Comedy Central Renews Deal With
Chappelle (AP) 08/03/2004 06:17 PM
AP - Dave Chappelle is now truly a rich man. Comedy Central and the streetwise comedian have reached agreement for two more years of the sketch comedy "Chappelle's Show."

"Geek Nirvana: Star Trek's Federation vs
Star Wars' Empire By the Numbers"

"Geek Nirvana: Star Trek's Federation vs
Star Wars' Empire By the Numbers" 09/19/2004 09:35 AM

Star Trek's James Doohan gets star on
Hollywood Walk of Fame

Star Trek's James Doohan gets star on
Hollywood Walk of Fame 08/31/2004 03:36 PM
Xeni Jardin: Blogger, photographer, and citizen geek Jason DeFillippo took photos, including the one shown here. He says, "I am really bummed I missed the [Trekkie] convention on Sunday but this made up for it. I'll remember it every time I walk by his star. Safe journeys Scotty..." Link to Jason's photo gallery, which includes some wonderful snaps of other Star Trek cast members in attendance

Reagan Film Career Featured Comedy,
Drama (AP)

Reagan Film Career Featured Comedy,
Drama (AP) 06/05/2004 09:01 PM
AP - Ronald Reagan's boy-next-door quality as an actor brought him film roles as diverse as the victim of an evil surgeon in "King's Row" and the college professor who experiments with raising a chimpanzee in the comedy "Bedtime for Bonzo."

Alan King, Exemplar of Jewish Comedy,
Dies at 76

Alan King, Exemplar of Jewish Comedy,
Dies at 76 05/09/2004 05:18 PM
Alan King parlayed his Borscht Belt sense of humor and a big appetite for the limelight into a thoroughgoing show business career that lasted more than half a century.

"Lonely Island"-er Andy Samberg on
Comedy Central

"Lonely Island"-er Andy Samberg on
Comedy Central 01/05/2005 10:25 PM
Xeni Jardin: Andy Samberg (whom you may recall from such previously-Boinged hits as TheLonelyIsland.com and Channel101) will be doing stand-up on Comedy Central's Premium Blend this Friday at 10pm. For those whose blog-term memory returns no results on a query for Mr. Samberg's work -- The 'BU, Just 2 Guyz, Nintendo, and The Heist are excellent places to start. (Thanks, Macki)

COMEDY CENTRAL TV Shows: The Daily Show
with Jon Stewart

COMEDY CENTRAL TV Shows: The Daily Show
with Jon Stewart 08/16/2004 01:50 PM
Stephen Colbert's latest contributions to The Daily Show with Jon Stewart .. (See the video of it here.) .. Dai target="_new"ly Show .. (new windo

comedycentral.com/tv_shows/thedailyshowwithjonstewart
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Khaha.com – Delivers Premium Wireless
Comedy for XSVoice

Khaha.com – Delivers Premium Wireless
Comedy for XSVoice 09/20/2004 02:42 AM
“Khaha.com, the world’s premiere Internet Comedy Radio network, has signed a multi-year content syndication agreement with XSVoice to produce a new Comedy Entertainment channel for multiple mobile phone carriers throughout N. America.” [PRWEB Sep 20, 2004]

Finally Answered: Star Trek vs. Star
Wars

Finally Answered: Star Trek vs. Star
Wars 09/17/2004 05:45 PM
Gee k Nirvana: Star Trek's Federation vs Star Wars' Empire By the Numbers

Because we know the debate rages on......

Now if we could only resolve Kirk vs. Picard for once and all.
via Linux Notes

Lauren Weinstein outwits Comedy
Central's humiliation show

Lauren Weinstein outwits Comedy
Central's humiliation show 06/21/2004 03:34 PM
LVX23 sez: "Beware! You could be next! Net pundit & privacy advocate Lauren Weinstein was almost ensnared by the greedy talons of a Viacom/MTV "reality" charade. Thanks to some clever web research she was able to uncover the con and spare herself himself humiliation in front of a national audience."

"At first I found nothing again. But then I started working backwards from the contact phone numbers I had for the show's production staff. This time I hit pay dirt, and while the pages unscrolled on my screen a cold chill ran down my spine. As the recent, angry testimonials I had found recounted, with a matching of modus operandi that left no chance for error, the show on which I was about to appear was a fraud. Not really a debate at all, the show is actually a program for Comedy Central (yes, an MTV/Viacom network) called "Crossballs" -- and its sole purpose is the embarrassment and humiliation of the expert guests who are brought on expecting a legitimate discussion program."

Link

UK TV Comedy 'The Office' Takes Career
Turn to DVD (Reuters)

UK TV Comedy 'The Office' Takes Career
Turn to DVD (Reuters) 04/20/2004 02:06 PM
Reuters - Imagine actor Clint Eastwood snarling, "go ahead, make my day," but then putting a surprised look on his face and adding, "Who the (expletive) are they?"

Weekend Movies: Mixing Oscar Talk with
Absurd Comedy

Weekend Movies: Mixing Oscar Talk with
Absurd Comedy 12/12/2003 07:45 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 12 2003 6:50PM ET

On Lisa Rein's Radar: Daily Show Comedy
Clips Archives

On Lisa Rein's Radar: Daily Show Comedy
Clips Archives 02/14/2004 07:22 AM
these clips taken from "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" .. On Lisa Rein's Radar: Daily Show Comedy Clips Archives .. archive of daily show footage .. This link's

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Star Wars vs Star Trek in Five Minutes

Star Wars vs Star Trek in Five Minutes 09/18/2004 03:14 PM
In a straight-up fight, the Empire would squash the Federation like a bug .. Geek Nirvana: Star Trek's Federation vs Star Wars' Empire By the Numbers

stardestroyer.net/Empire/Essays/FiveMinutes.html
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Print Manager Plus Wins W2KNews Top
Award for Best Print Management
Software, Best Price, Best Quality in
the Industry American-British Company
Software Shelf Receives Software Award

Print Manager Plus Wins W2KNews Top
Award for Best Print Management
Software, Best Price, Best Quality in
the Industry American-British Company
Software Shelf Receives Software Award 05/31/2004 02:14 PM
Software Shelf International, Inc., an American and British software development and marketing company today announced that its flagship product, Print Manager Plus(R), has won the coveted Sunbelt W2KNews Top Award for Print Management Software. The award is presented at Microsoft's Tech.Ed 2004 for Best print management software, Best price, and Best quality in the industry. The Award was won as a result of voting from over 500,000 W2K News subscribers consisting of Windows NT/2000/2003 Administrators, MIS Managers, MCPs, MCSEs and IT professionals around the world. Print Manager Plus solves the problem of the hidden cost of printing in organizations. According to Datamation document costs consume up to 15% of a company's revenues. Print Manager Plus reduces these costs. [PRWEB May 26, 2004]
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Britcom clips online

Britcom clips online 01/11/2004 12:27 PM
BBC Comedy has posted dozens of clips from classic britcoms -- alas, in RealVideo instead of something useful like MPEG that could be readily cut up, turned into homemade animations, incorpoated into school-reports, etc. Still and all, funny stuff!

* 2 Point 4 Children
* Absolutely Fabulous
* All Gas And Gaiters
* 'Allo 'Allo!
* Are You Being Served?
* Black Adder, The
* Blackadder II
* Blackadder The Third
* Blackadder Goes Forth

Link (Thanks, Kim!)

Et Cetera: new Chappelle Show in two
days!

Et Cetera: new Chappelle Show in two
days! 01/22/2004 02:13 AM
Round up including a new Microsoft suit, a new virus, love for Dave Chappelle, and more.

Daily Show torrents

Daily Show torrents 06/05/2005 11:42 PM
Cory Doctorow: Jeff sez, "CommonBits, the progressive media directory, has links to torrents of new Daily Show clips:"

• Crimes Tom DeLay Hasn't Committed
• Stephen Colbert on Deep Throat
• Bush-Cheney on Amnesty International (we know a gulag when we see one)
• Will Arlen Specter live long enough to see Bush veto his stem cell research legislation?
• Jon Stewart interviews Gerald Posner author of Secrets of the Kingdom
• Rob Cordry on Gas Prices
• Sunday Justice with Stephen Colbert
• Jon Stewart interviews Floyd Abrams author of Speak Freely

Link (Thanks, Jeff!)

Heil Honey, I'm Home: Britcom about
Hitler

Heil Honey, I'm Home: Britcom about
Hitler 12/16/2003 11:12 AM
In 1990, Britons were delivered a a short-lived sitcom called Heil Honey, I'm Home, about Adolph Hitler and Eva Braun's home-life next door to a Jewish couple in the 1930s.

This most infamous of all British sitcoms attracted controversy out of all proportion to the number of people who saw it. Naturally, the hullabaloo was built on the shocking notion that anyone would mount a comedy about Hitler and the Jews - seemingly the definition of poor taste. In reality, the show was no more than a spoof - and not of 1930s Germany but of the kind of 1960s/1970s American sitcoms that would embrace any idea, no matter how stupid. The title, the corny dialogue, the applause when anyone arrived on set, the acting (McCaul's Hitler was more reminiscent of Chaplin's The Great Dictator than your actual Fuhrer) - all were clear signposts of parody. Mel Brooks had already explored the concept of pantomime Nazis in his masterpiece movie (and eventual stage musical) The Producers.

Link

Copyfight debate of the century video
and audio torrents

Copyfight debate of the century video
and audio torrents 04/19/2005 03:38 AM
Cory Doctorow: Last week's Cornell Debate between EFF senior IP attorney Fred Von Lohmann, copyfighting media studies prof Siva Vaidhyanathan, and counsel from the MPAA, RIAA, Napster 2 and Universal was astounding, the most engrossing three hours of video I've watched all month.

Unfortunately and inexplicably, this was only available as a crappy, dropout-prone Real stream from Cornell, which meant you couldn't load the audio onto your iPod or download the video to show your friends later.

Now someone's converted the video to something else (not sure what) and posted a .torrent, packaged with soemthing called "Matroska" that seems like a good way to add bookmarks and such to video (I'd be interested in knowing whether this packaging presents any barrier to someone who simply wants to download the video and watch it in her player of choice). There's also an Ogg of the audio available (I'd love to see this converted to MP3 for iPod users and posted as a Torrent!). Video Torrent Link, Ogg Torrent Link

Amateur video footage of tsunami on
bl0gs, torrents

Amateur video footage of tsunami on
bl0gs, torrents 12/29/2004 08:31 PM
Xeni Jardin: Waxy.org has been collecting amateur video footage, here's a roundup post: Link. Punditguy has more: Link

Chris Holland says,

I've used prodigem to create torrents for the South Asia tsunami videos. The more people use this torrent, the faster everyone else will be able to download the videos. See also this page to make it easy for people to put an amazon donation badge on their sites.

Link

Tsunami update: Microsoft responds,
bl0ggers organize, video torrents

Tsunami update: Microsoft responds,
bl0ggers organize, video torrents 12/30/2004 04:48 PM
Xeni Jardin: A quick roundup of items related to the tsunami disaster. Image: mannequin in pile of wreckage in Thailand, shot by blogger and NBC correspondent Kevin Sites who is on assignment in Asia covering the story. (Link)

*Following up on a previous BoingBoing post, an anonymous Microsoft employee says:

Responding to this: "Reader J. Hahn says, "I am particularly impressed with Amazon.com's Red Cross donation counter that proves Americans are not 'stingy.' Also, as a Mac user, I was proud to go to the apple.com site and see not one product ad on their front page - just links to aid and donation sites, and Microsoft had not one mention of the disaster."

Most of Microsoft's efforts regarding Tsunami relief is focused internally. MS offers a dollar for dollar charitable donation match to all FTE, and is doing everything it can to expidite the process of trying to get the money to where it will do the most good.

* Tsunami Outreach: Bloggers Without Borders' first international project launched last night. Link (Thanks, Sean)

* BoingBoing reader Nicholas Bentley says,

"Hello Xeni, We thought you might be interested in passing on the news of one person's great efforts for tsunami relief. We wanted to donate to a tsunami relief effort with our funds in a PayPal account but had difficulty finding an agency that took PayPal. Eventually we found Kevin McDonald's site where he is doing a fantastic job of collecting PayPal contributions and passing them on to AmeriCares (AmeriCares disaster relief has a 4-star rating from Charity Navigator.) Kevin has even persuaded AmeriCare's webmaster to see about accepting PayPal transfers direct in the near future."

*BoingBoing reader Chris Cummer says,

Family members of a close personal friend of mine are still missing in Thailand. Her father and brother have flown there to try and find them, as this Globe and Mail article details, but the help of the blog community would also be greatly appreciated. I've posted a request for help on my blog at Mi ssing in Khao Lak, Thailand. Hopefully someone might have some information for a Canadian family that's been living on the edge of grief for five days now.

Related: see this "missing persons" wiki page (Link ), and a blog devoted to linking missing persons with their loved ones: Link. And the Red Cross has launched a "Family Links" web page where family members can search for missing relatives’ names: Link. "The information is not verified or tracked by either the ICRC or the American Red Cross but is offered by the ICRC as a stand-alone internet tool for inquirers to use on their own."

* Reader Roberto says, "Every year at this time, I empty my jar full of loose change. But this year I discovered I could donate to the Red Cross (among other charities including UNICEF) from a Coinstar machine at my drugstore. And big kid that I am, I had fun playing with the machine." Link.

* Reader Chris Holland says,

I stumbled upon Austin's Blog who's done a fine job of gathering more videos. So earthlink homepage servers don't get creamed, I've created this torrent gathering 5 of the videos from his blog that weren't already covered in the previous torrent which is still available here. Remember, the more people click those torrent links, the easier and faster it is for everybody else to download them too. And try to keep the torrent opened for as long as possible even after you're done downloading. Big Kudos to prodigem's very easy-to-use torrent service. Link

* Andy Carvin says,

I've just set up a tsunami news digest using the news aggregator Kinja.com. The page contains latest news feeds and first-person blogs related to the tsunami disaster from around the globe. I'd like to see others add their own tsunami-related feeds to the site. If you have a news feed or blog that's focusing on the tsunami, or are reading one that you'd like to add to the digest, please visit the website and log on with the following info: login: tsunami-info / password: southasia. Once you've logged in, you can add a news source to the digest by pasting it into the "Add a Favorite" form field in the right column. Or, you can follow this shortcut.

* Among the many first-person accounts appearing on blogs: Sanjiva is an IBM employee from Sri Lanka, who is trying to build information systems to aid in locating missing persons, and help with medical resource logistics. Link.

* Jesse Krembs, President of The Hacker Foundation, tells BoingBoing:

Some of the folks here at the hacker foundation are assembling some code to build a big PHP/MYSQL database for locating survivors and doing tracing. It's not up yet but it will be soon. SurvivorLocationAssis tance.org & suvivors.hackerfoundation. org will be the address. You can see a preview as we build it here. It's still very rough but functional even at very low bandwidth."

Link to related BoingBoing posts.

CNN.com - Chappelle renews for $50
million - Aug 3, 2004

CNN.com - Chappelle renews for $50
million - Aug 3, 2004 08/04/2004 09:27 AM
I wonder if the sources indicating the deal's worth $50 MILLION!!!!! are friends with the sources who say Iraq is in MELTDOWN MODE!!!!! .. Dave Chappelle gets $50 million in his Comedy Central renewal

cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/08/03/television.chappelle.reut/inde x.html
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Chappelle: Laughing all the way to the
bank (USATODAY.com)

Chappelle: Laughing all the way to the
bank (USATODAY.com) 08/03/2004 07:28 AM
USATODAY.com - In what could be the biggest talent deal in basic-cable history, comedian Dave Chappelle has re-upped with Comedy Central for two more seasons of Chappelle's Show and will get a hefty cut of its DVD sales.

Boing Boing: Tsunami update: Microsoft
responds, bl0ggers organize, video
torrents

Boing Boing: Tsunami update: Microsoft
responds, bl0ggers organize, video
torrents 01/02/2005 12:46 AM
BoingBoing for their link as well

boingboing.net/2004/12/30/tsunami_update_micro.html
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Mmmm, torrents!

Mmmm, torrents! 04/27/2004 03:53 PM
So, I've been fiddling around with BitTorrent and all the variant clients. And... I like it. A lot. The shared downloading and easily resumable downloads make it a keen thing indeed. It turns out that BitTornado, one of the variant clients, does apply a global rate cap if you're serving multiple files up. This is good as Bittorrent clients'll eat all the available bandwidth, and then some, if given the chance. Not a huge problem for client-only systems, or systems with big upstream pipes, but for me with a smallish (192K) upstream pipe, well... running multiple torrents wouldn't be an...

Textbooks Hit The Torrents

Textbooks Hit The Torrents 09/07/2004 12:08 PM

Not all web piracy is the sexy stuff, like games and movies. Julis Schorzman notes that one of his college textbooks recently showed up as a BitTorrent.

The book the UW uses to teach Calculus showed up on Suprnova the other day. Here's the link. (Wish we had Bit Torrent around when I was a freshman in college. We had to pay all $140.00 for the [tome]! Spoiled kids!

You'd think someone would have to put a lot of work into pirating a calc book, since they contain so many symbols that an OCR system would have problems with.

Interesting side note: Julis' blog contains a tag (I think) he made up, <liblink>. Firefox reads that as <liblink>, resurrecting that Internet horror of ages past, the blink tag. Odd that such a progressive browser is so eager to enable useless old tags that it even does it where it isn't supposed to.

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Baen ebooks CDs as .torrents

Baen ebooks CDs as .torrents 04/29/2004 07:41 AM
Baen Books is a successful science fiction publisher that releases a lot of its titles as non-DRM text/html files via its website and on CDROMs bound into its book. Now, all six of the Baen CDs, representing a substantial library of science fiction, are available as Bit Torrent files, to be gang-downloaded to all comers at speed. Link (Thanks, Robotech Master!)

Government docs torrents

Government docs torrents 03/31/2005 05:48 PM
Cory Doctorow: Thad sez,

Wanted to tell you guys about some more cool new torrents I've put up:

- Commission on Intelligence Capabilities WMD report & other key WMD documents
- Betamax legal documents
- Betamax mp3s
- National Security Archive Pre-9/11 intelligence documents

Link (Thanks, Thad!)

Doctor Who And Rose Meet The Evil
Internet Bit Torrents

Doctor Who And Rose Meet The Evil
Internet Bit Torrents 03/25/2005 11:13 PM
London News Review Mar 26 2005 3:07AM GMT

"Loki Torrent - Torrent Search, Torrent
Download, You name it..."

"Loki Torrent - Torrent Search, Torrent
Download, You name it..." 12/31/2004 10:23 AM

Loki Torrent - Torrent Search, Torrent
Download, You name it, we've got it.

Loki Torrent - Torrent Search, Torrent
Download, You name it, we've got it. 12/30/2004 11:53 AM
fights back .. lokittorrent .. Loki Torrent

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Dave Newhouse, Legendary Sportswriter,
to Appear on Internet Talk Radio Show
“Sports Mavericks” on Voice America
Radio

Dave Newhouse, Legendary Sportswriter,
to Appear on Internet Talk Radio Show
“Sports Mavericks” on Voice America
Radio 09/07/2004 03:03 AM
Tuesday, September 7, 2004 at 5:00pm PST (8:00pm EST) Ida Mourie and Elleanor Stark’s online talk radio show, “Sports Mavericks” on Internet radio station Voice America (http://www.voiceamerica.com), welcome legendary sportswriter Dave Newhouse. [PRWEB Sep 7, 2004]

"bitoogle :: the bit torrent file search
engine (bittorrent)"

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engine (bittorrent)" 07/13/2004 08:44 PM

bitoogle :: the bit torrent file search
engine (bittorrent)

bitoogle :: the bit torrent file search
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bitoogle :: the bit torrent file search engine .. bitoogle

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"***Dave"

"***Dave" 12/10/2003 03:08 PM

Dave

Dave 05/25/2004 08:36 AM
Meanwhile, our boy Dave is freshly wiped down and ready for action. The cleaning of Michelangelo's David has finished, much to the relief of the experts who thought that the use of water in the process would hurt the thing....

"Dave"

"Dave" 11/18/2003 10:22 AM

Get Well Dave!

Get Well Dave! 06/17/2002 07:56 AM
Dave Winer is half geek, half journalist and a man with a big heart. He hosts this web site for free, and is in hospital till next weekend. So Dave, keep healin' and keep on diggin'.

Thanks Dr Dave

Thanks Dr Dave 12/24/2004 12:11 PM

After the weblogs.com hosting debacle< /a> surfaced yet again by people trying to reignite the flames, I decided to try to discuss it again with David Weinberger, whose comments in the middle of the flamefest are widely cited as evidence of how I didn't do all I should have done to notify people with blogs on weblogs.com. I know David to be a thoughtful, careful and considerate person. And to this day well-intentioned people question my integrity over these events. That's not cool for a person such as myself who values his integrity.

We reviewed the options that people suggested at the time, 1. Send an email, or 2. Post something on Scripting News. Neither would have worked, the mail addresses were four years old and probably didn't work, most of the sites never got past the Hello World stage (so the authors might not remember creating the site, and certainly don't care), and most people with free sites weren't and probably still aren't Scripting News readers, any more than most Blogger users were Evhead readers.

Posting something on Scripting News wouldn't have notified the users, but it sure would have notified the flamers. I think they were saying that they were complaining that they weren't told in advance that it was time to rip me a new one. ";->"

Anyway, he posted a correctio n, so next time this comes up, as it is sure to, the flamers won't be able to use him to support their attacks. Thanks!

DAVE 5.0.1

DAVE 5.0.1 09/15/2004 11:54 PM
Enables Macintosh users to participate in Microsoft networks with both file and print sharing services.

Thanks, Dave

Thanks, Dave 06/17/2005 07:17 PM

Now that I've come up for air after my latest codin g frenzy, I see that Brian Bailey has done something I should've done a long time ago: than k Dave Winer for his huge contributions to our syndicated world.

FeedDemon relies on RSS, OPML, weblogs, podcasting and SOAP - all of which were invented, co-invented or evangelized by Dave Winer. I'm having a blast developing FeedDemon, so thank you, Dave, for making my world a better a one.

Dave & Busted

Dave & Busted 04/15/2005 03:18 PM
Investors stopped chewing on Dave & Buster's stock after the release of stale earnings.

Dave Walker:

Dave Walker: 05/31/2004 03:47 PM
Dave Walker: "When the world ends, the only things left will be cockroaches, rats, Keith Richards, and mangled text that has been escaped one-too-many or one-too-few times." So why do RSS and Atom allow escaped markup at all? Die die die!

Award hails 'unknown' comedy star

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