Tony Wheeler: The Woody Allen of travel

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Collector's Collections Gallery: Barrett
Wheeler

Collector's Collections Gallery: Barrett
Wheeler 04/05/2005 08:23 AM
Today's Collector's Collections update features the collection of Barrett Wheeler from Rochester, New York USA.

The man who brought you the homemade
Segway returns with a self-balancing
one-wheeler

The man who brought you the homemade
Segway returns with a self-balancing
one-wheeler 06/20/2004 06:44 AM
Build your own self balancing unicycle

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Travel with Your Pet at
pet-friendlytravel.com and Receive an
$80 Coupon for a Cooper & Cadie Premium
Pet Travel Kit

Travel with Your Pet at
pet-friendlytravel.com and Receive an
$80 Coupon for a Cooper & Cadie Premium
Pet Travel Kit 02/01/2005 09:10 PM
Travelers with Pet-FriendlyTravel.Com will receive a coupon from Cooper & Cadie worth $80 towards the purchase of a special pet travel kit full of premium pet supplies to make the journey less stressful for your dog. This represents a savings of 50% off the list retail price. [PRWEB Jan 31, 2005]

This Ain't Woody Allen's Orb

This Ain't Woody Allen's Orb 04/17/2004 04:51 AM
Proponents of ubiquitous computing hope to build computers into objects that fit naturally into daily life. One application is the Orb, a large glowing egg that tracks trends in a variety of subjects and transmits the information visually.

Yahoo! Travel, National Geographic
Traveler Poll Names New Orleans Top U.S.
Family Travel Spot

Yahoo! Travel, National Geographic
Traveler Poll Names New Orleans Top U.S.
Family Travel Spot 03/23/2005 08:19 PM
Investors Business Daily Mar 24 2005 12:51AM GMT

Euronode 0.2-rc1 (Minimal Woody)

Euronode 0.2-rc1 (Minimal Woody) 05/21/2004 08:32 AM
A set of Debian distributions for quickly configuring servers.

Woody Woodpecker laugh-guy is dead

Woody Woodpecker laugh-guy is dead 04/24/2004 03:19 AM
Harry Babbit, the voice of Woody Woodpecker's laugh, is dead.

Dubbed "Handsome Harry" by Kyser, Babbitt sang on several hits, including "Three Little Fishies,""On A Slow Boat to China,""(Lights Out) 'Til Reveille,""He Wears a Pair of Silver Wings,""Jingle, Jangle, Jingle" and "The Umbrella Man."

Babbitt's high voice was later used on a solo recording of "All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth," for which he included a lisp. He was even responsible for the laugh on "Woody Woodpecker," Kyser's 1948 hit novelty tune.

Link (Thanks, Amanda!)

Mocking Woody Guthrie's Memory

Mocking Woody Guthrie's Memory 07/27/2004 09:17 PM
The late, great Woody Guthrie is surely spinning in his grave today, in fury over what is happening with one of his most memorable songs, "This Land is Your Land." But Guthrie would not be even slightly unhappy at the use of his immortal tune by the JibJab folks, whose brilliant satire of George Bush and John Kerry has become one of the most popular animations ever to hit the Web or any other medium. No, Guthrie would be thrilled. He was a folk singer. Like all other folk singers he borrowed from others to create his art. As his son, Arlo, onc e said:

"We've heard some of the people talk about some of the songs he wrote tonight. And the truth is, he did steal old songs from other places. He took the old gospel songs, he took the old traditional ballads, and he put his words to them like we heard tonight. People still called it stealing. Plagarism, bad words like that, 'til Pete Seeger come along and renamed it the folk process. I think my dad's theory was that if you wanted people to be singing along with you on your new song, it'd be a hell of a start if they already knew the tune. Or even some of words."

Woody Guthrie wrote scathingly of people who steal more with fountain pens than guns. He would have loathed the people who abuse copyright so much today, trying to restrict all kinds of fair use, of which parody is an absolutely protected example. Guthrie wanted credit for what he wrote, but he had contempt for severe legal restrictions on what others might do with it. According to Pete Seeger, in this account (widely acknowledged in the folk world to be true) from the Museum of Musical Instruments, when Guthrie was singing on the radio in Los Angeles during the Depression, he'd mail mimeographed songs to listeners, and wrote on one:

"“This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin’ it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don’t give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that’s all we wanted to do.”

I'll bet, therefore, that Woody would be horrified -- and angered -- by the behavior of an outfit called The Richmond Organization, which controls the copyright to his music. This humor-impaired crew has gone ballistic and has lau nched legal threats (CNN) at JibJab. The Richmond Organization is dishonoring Woody Guthrie's memory, not that it seems to care. But it's giving us one more example of how the copyright system has abandoned common sense.

A Small Victory - Kerry Does Woody

A Small Victory - Kerry Does Woody 07/27/2004 02:41 PM
No Photoshop required .. Woody Allen sperm .. A Small Victory .. HEH

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Woody Guthrie free culture

Woody Guthrie free culture 04/09/2004 03:54 PM

Joel Blain recently wrote in with an interesting observation:

"I've been reading a bio on Woody Guthrie. It's pretty interesting. The book reprints one of the "Copyright Warnings" he included on his recordings in the ealry 40's

"This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do."

It just made me think of Creative Commons. I dunno if you've seen or heard it before, but I thought I'd pass it along."

Nice find, thanks Joel!

Travel Information Without Travel Sales
Pitches

Travel Information Without Travel Sales
Pitches 12/31/2004 01:03 PM
I get so many announcements about sites which are designed to sell things, or to be roundups for e-commerce information, that's it's startling (and refreshing) to find out about a...

JibJab Threatened Over Use Of Woody
Guthrie Song

JibJab Threatened Over Use Of Woody
Guthrie Song 07/26/2004 09:08 PM
For the last few weeks, the JibJab site and their amusing political parody of Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" has been getting passed around the net. It's well done, and deserves much of the praise it's been getting. However, it appears the folks who own the rights to Woody Guthrie's music are anything but pleased, and are demanding that JibJab stop distributing the flash movie. Their biggest complaint seems to be that "This puts a completely different spin on the song," which will "damage" the song. Anyone who can't see how utterly ridiculous this is has no job watching over Woody Guthrie's music. Guthrie, after all, is the same singer who once put the following co pyright notice on his work: "This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do." Apparently, no one told the folks at the humorless Richmond Organization.

Woody Guthrie's family likes JibJab, but
copyright doesn't care

Woody Guthrie's family likes JibJab, but
copyright doesn't care 08/08/2004 09:09 PM

It has already been widely reported that music publisher Ludlow Music has threatened copyright litigation against JibJab for their animation "This Land" which uses Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land." Corante, Boing Boing and NPR report that the kids like JibJab. Wendy Seltzer makes an interesting point that when Congress passed the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, they said it was "for the children." Wendy says, "It's worth remembering, again, that artists and copyright holders aren't always the same people."

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Woody Guthrie's copyright used to defile
his memory in lawsuit threat

Woody Guthrie's copyright used to defile
his memory in lawsuit threat 07/27/2004 05:51 AM
Two brothers who cooked up a funny parody of Bush and Kerry singing "This Land is Your Land" have been threatened with a copyright infringement lawsuit by the current rightsholder to the classic Woody Guthrie song, a company called Ludlow Music. A lot of the copyright rhetoric centers on copyright's ability to give creators controls over their works, but here it is working just the opposite, for Woody Guthrie's standard copyright notice went like so:

"This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do."

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Owners of Woody Guthrie song threaten
online political satirists

Owners of Woody Guthrie song threaten
online political satirists 07/30/2004 06:50 AM
Wired.com - Fri Jul 30, 08:58 am GMT

jay allen is addicted

jay allen is addicted 05/16/2004 09:11 PM
I drink, I smoke, I eat fatty foods, and sometimes I look like hell .. jay allen is addicted .. JayAllen.org/Jay *& .. be wired like jay .. travelogue blog .. jayallen [>] .. JayAllen .. openwire .. Jay! .. Jay

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I love Jay Allen

I love Jay Allen 11/14/2003 05:11 PM
His Movable Type plugin found and removed 457 comment spams in my past 1,000 posts. It's free, it's easy, it's nice lookin'. Gotta love that ol' Web....

Diller To Show IAC Is No Travel Company
By Creating IAC's Travel Company

Diller To Show IAC Is No Travel Company
By Creating IAC's Travel Company 12/22/2004 01:16 AM
Barry Diller has done a good job buying up various online "middleman" companies in a variety of spaces from travel to social networking to dating. However, he says too many people view InterActiveCorp as a travel company and that's making it more difficult to acquire non-travel companies. So, in order to prove that he's not running a travel company... he's going to show them what it means to really run a travel company. That is, he's going to spin off all of IAC's travel properties, including Expedia, Hotwire, TravelNow and Hotels.com, into one company (which he'll still run), and keep all the other properties as IAC. While it may be a good idea to realize the value of those other properties, from the beginning Diller kept talking about the synergies of having all of these properties under the same umbrella. Apparently, those synergies only go so far when the stock price isn't as high as he had hoped.

Christopher Allen, Rip Van Winkle

Christopher Allen, Rip Van Winkle 03/06/2004 01:57 AM
I met Christopher Allen about a decade ago, when he ran Consensus Development, a company that made a commercial SSL toolkit. (Prior to that, he was involved in the startup of VeriSign, and in the development of the SSL reference implementation for Netscape.) I hadn't heard from him in a long time, and his recent essay, Se curity and Cryptography: The Bad Business of Fear, explains why. When he sold his company to Certicom in 1999, he signed a 5 3-year non-compete agreement. When it expired, he re-entered the security industry, expecting to find it much changed:

Internet time had still been moving fast back in 1999 and I wasn't sure how many generations had gone by in the security industry. One, two, more?

...

Amy Allen Online Chat

Amy Allen Online Chat 05/19/2004 10:28 PM
Amy Allen is scheduled to be online on Friday, May 21 at 10:30 a.m. Pacific time (1:30 p.m. Eastern time). These chats happen in the Celebrity Chat and Schedule forum, which is accessible only to Hyperspace members. For more info click here!

The $12 Billion Education of Paul Allen

The $12 Billion Education of Paul Allen 04/30/2004 02:00 AM
Business Week Apr 30 2004 6:16AM GMT

"Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven"

"Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven" 07/06/2004 08:13 AM

Van Allen Questions Human Spaceflight

Van Allen Questions Human Spaceflight 07/27/2004 02:44 PM

Allen Bradley Ethernet utils 0.1.9

Allen Bradley Ethernet utils 0.1.9 08/31/2004 03:36 PM
Simple utilities for Allen Bradley Ethernet PLCs

John Allen Muhammed and Lee Malvo

John Allen Muhammed and Lee Malvo 12/12/2003 04:36 AM
The DC Sniper’s Jihad .. New York Post

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smack to the Post's Mike Allen

smack to the Post's Mike Allen 01/03/2004 09:32 AM
kicks the candyass .. Josh Marshall .. reminds us

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Allen! Choate! Hammersley! Haughey!

Allen! Choate! Hammersley! Haughey! 04/06/2005 02:47 PM
Allen! Choate! Hammersley! Haughey! Together at last! Finally, "Hacking Movable Type" is done, about to be printed, and soon to be in shops near you. Jay's the Movable Type product manager at Six Apart, Brad is the Six Apart code...

Allen: 'We Drank Some Castor Oil'

Allen: 'We Drank Some Castor Oil' 04/30/2004 02:00 AM
Business Week Apr 30 2004 6:16AM GMT

Microsoft improving bug rate – Allen

Microsoft improving bug rate – Allen 08/10/2004 10:57 AM
A senior Microsoft New Zealand executive, Terry Allen, confirmed this month that the company’s antivirus plan includes “behavioural” strategies, monitoring the kind of actions viruses attempt to perform on a computer system, rather than relying wholly on signatures. The conventional strategy of regular updates to a database of malware signatures is becoming more and more difficult to sustain as the lag between Microsoft’s notifying an exploitable bug in its software and the first hacker exploitation of it becomes shorter, says Allen, the manager of Microsoft's enterprise sales and partner group. With Nimda, three years ago, the interval was almost a year; for the recent Sasser worm, it was 18 days.

Allen! Choate! Hammersley! Haughey!
Raynes!

Allen! Choate! Hammersley! Haughey!
Raynes! 04/06/2005 06:03 PM
Allen! Choate! Hammersley! Haughey! Raynes! Together at last! Finally, "Hacking Movable Type" is done, about to be printed, and soon to be in shops near you. Jay's the Movable Type product manager at Six Apart, Brad is the Six Apart...

Paul Allen Confirmed as SpaceShipOne's
Sponsor

Paul Allen Confirmed as SpaceShipOne's
Sponsor 12/19/2003 01:17 PM

Paul Allen Pays for First Private
Spacecraft

Paul Allen Pays for First Private
Spacecraft 06/03/2004 06:40 PM
“If all goes as planned, the world’s first privately-owned spacecraft will take off into space. Knows as the SpaceShipOne, the commercial craft was designed by Burt Rutan and financed by Paul Allen.”

Lakeland Ledger, By Diane Lacey Allen

Lakeland Ledger, By Diane Lacey Allen 06/18/2004 08:08 AM
Read this story

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Interview With Gary Allen, Publisher Of
IfoAppleStore.com

Interview With Gary Allen, Publisher Of
IfoAppleStore.com 09/23/2004 11:15 AM
By AaronS Mac Commentary (via MyAppleMenu)

Paul Allen Wants To Build The Computer
Tutor

Paul Allen Wants To Build The Computer
Tutor 02/12/2004 07:39 PM
Since leaving Microsoft, Paul Allen has worked on a variety of "big" projects - most of which have gone nowhere. His latest, is a plan to build a computer tutor. He wants to build a system that can ace Advanced Placement exams, often used by high school kids to get college credit. The idea is not to use artificial intelligence - though, that seems to be a semantics issue. The way they describe the system it is an artificial intelligence machine, whether they like it or not. Of course, the more important issue is the one the article brushes over: this is a contest. Instead of just putting a bunch of people in a room to work on this, they're putting up money for three different teams to complete the task. This way, they can (in theory) get competing approaches and see what works best. It's a bit of money-based evolution, I guess. Of course, you wonder if this is a better method than something like the X Prize, where no upfront money is given, but there's a big prize at the end for the first successful contestant.

Senator George Allen Says Keep the World
Wide Web Tax-Free

Senator George Allen Says Keep the World
Wide Web Tax-Free 04/29/2004 11:26 PM
US Embassy Tokyo Apr 30 2004 2:40AM GMT

Jay Allen wins Movable Type Plugin
Contest

Jay Allen wins Movable Type Plugin
Contest 07/24/2004 11:11 PM

Will not be long before we can add another layer of protection to our comments section as Jay Allen has won the MovableType Blacklist plugin contest for Movable Type Version 3.0. Congratulations to Jay. [Jay Allen] [Six Apart]

Barco announces Allen Bowersox as new
Market Development Manager

Barco announces Allen Bowersox as new
Market Development Manager 06/17/2005 04:23 PM
Xenia, Ohio � Barco is pleased to announce Allen Bowersox as the most recent addition to the Simulation Market Development team. [PRWEB Jun 10, 2005]

ActiveWin.com Book of the Day: The
Accidental Zillionaire : Demystifying
Paul Allen

ActiveWin.com Book of the Day: The
Accidental Zillionaire : Demystifying
Paul Allen 11/03/2003 01:01 AM
Everyone knows about Bill Gates, the boy-wonder founder of Microsoft and the planet’s richest citizen. Although less well known, Paul Allen helped make Gates’s good fortunes possible, and he's certainly worth study for his mistakes just as much as his many successes. Enter former Industry Standard reporter Laura Rich, who does little to demystify Allen the man, but paints a useful portrait all the same. Rich takes readers through Allen’s career as an early Gates ally, a technically savvy man who first saw the possibilities of DOS, the operating system that drove a big chunk of the personal computer market, and launched several other software enterprises. Although he left Microsoft owing to illness in 1983 (according to Rich, Gates has behaved badly toward him ever since), Allen is still a major shareholder and has amassed a personal fortune that dwarfs the GNPs of whole nations. As Rich observes, Allen has put this money to good use as "technology’s archangel," but has also managed to lose staggering sums in misguided ventures--some too far ahead of their time, some just plain wacky.
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