Grey stage set for UK PS2 price war
Grok Headline matches for Grey stage set for UK PS2 price war
Hauliers stage fuel price protest
Hauliers stage fuel price protest
06/05/2004 10:37 AMBritain's only planned demonstration against rising fuel prices is
under way in South Wales.
Grey sky
Grey sky
03/06/2004 01:55 AM
The Sokos Torni Hotel has a lovely view of the city from the cafe on
the top of the tower, but in winter the balcony is often closed due to
winds, ice or both. So, I had to settle for a picture taken from the
inside. You can see plague park and a few of the church steeples
before it drops off into the vast white expanse of the Gulf of
Finland. Snow on the rooftops and a low, flat and grey sky that looks
close enough to touch.
Grey Goo Gone?
Grey Goo Gone?
06/09/2004 08:46 PMForget those fears of nanoscale, self-replicating robots reducing the
world to grey goo
and wiping out civilization.
Eric Drexler, who
first warned us the world would be consumed by
nanobots now thinks maybe it won't happen. His solution? Instead of
building intelligent, self-replicating nanotechnology, we should build
limited,
dumb nanobots that would be permanently mounted in a sort of 3D
printer
arrangement.
Drexler says "a machine like a desktop printer is, to say the least,
unlikely to go wild, replicate, self-organise into intelligent
systems,
and eat people". Read the Guardian
article for the overview or visit e-drexler.com to find out all the
details.
The Grey Album
The Grey Album
02/16/2004 05:25 PMA few months ago, hip-hop artist Jay Z released what is reportedly
his last album, titled The Black
Album. He also released a vocals-only version, specifically for
DJs to incorporate into new mixes. One of those mixes was done by DJ Dangermouse, using only
samples from The Beatles' White Album. This new mix was dubbed The
Grey Album and a limited pressing was made. After a
mention in the New Yorker, copies quickly showed up online
and spread like wildfire.
EMI, the rights holders to The Beatles' recordings issued a cease
and desist order to record stores and online merchants selling it last
week, since the sampling was done without permission from either Jay Z
or The Beatles. Executive Director of the Creative Commons, Glenn Otis
Brown was quoted in a Wired
News piece about the album and points out the problems of
copyright being used to silence DJ Dangermouse and his popular
mix.
Grey Tuesday
Grey Tuesday
02/19/2004 03:41 PMGrey Tuesday
greytuesday.org
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The Grey Lady Blogs
The Grey Lady Blogs
03/14/2005 05:59 PMI find it kinda cool that today I was in the New York Times talking
about the business potential of weblogs and today the New York Times
became the biggest weblog publishing business in the world. I am also
glad that crazy political bloggers who like to draw distinctions
between...
White + Black = Grey
White + Black = Grey
02/18/2004 01:24 PM DJ Danger Mouse has been
making waves recently with his
Grey Album that cross-pollinates
the music of
The Beatles'
classic
White Album with the lyrics and delivery of
Jay-Z's
recent swan song, the
Black Album. The results?
"One of
the more interesting pirate mashups ever done." (
Pitchfork).
"Most ambitious remix."
(
Village
Voice).
"As fun as it is daring." (
Boston Globe).
"Ultimate
remix record." (
Roll
ing Stone). Not surprisingly,
EMI is far from
amuse
d by the unsanctioned and unapproved project and the limited
release
will no longer be distributed. So,
download it now
(or check out these
Real Player
samples).
Why is this site grey today?
Why is this site grey today?
03/06/2004 01:52 AMkottke.org is grey today because I believe that musical sampling
without prior consent of the copyright holder should be legally
allowed because it does our society more good than harm. Late last
year, a DJ named Danger Mouse took The Black Album by Jay-Z, mixed it
with samples taken from the Beatles' White Album, and produced The
Grey Album. He sent the album to a few folks and now --...
Another Visit to the Grey Market
Another Visit to the Grey Market
08/07/2004 01:44 PMTechTree Aug 7 2004 5:44PM GMT
My nights are headache grey...
My nights are headache grey...
03/21/2003 05:55 AMTwo nights in a row I've left work with a burnt-out grey headache.
Desperate-need-for-a-holiday time is here, and thankfully
Actually-going-for-a-holiday time is rapidly approaching. But more on
that later. More rested today - my head spinning a little, but with
bits of brain no longer oozing from my ears - I can start to bring
sense to the memeworld around me. Panic no longer. For I am
back...
Drexler says no to "grey goo" myths
Drexler says no to "grey goo" myths
06/14/2004 11:40 AMNanotechnology pioneer
Eric Drexler has
co-authored a paper in a scientific journal addressing fears
surrounding self-replicating nano-machines. The paper, co-written by
Chris Phoenix of the
Center for
Responsible Nanotechnology, was published in the journal
Nanotechnology last week. From the abstract:
"In the light of controversy regarding scenarios based on
runaway replication (so-called 'grey goo'), a review of current
thinking regarding nanotechnology-based manufacturing is in order.
Nanotechnology-based fabrication can be thoroughly non-biological and
inherently safe: such systems need have no ability to move about, use
natural resources, or undergo incremental mutation. Moreover,
self-replication is unnecessary: the development and use of highly
productive systems of nanomachinery (nanofactories) need not involve
the construction of autonomous self-replicating nanomachines.
Accordingly, the construction of anything resembling a dangerous
self-replicating nanomachine can and should be prohibited. Although
advanced nanotechnologies could (with great difficulty and little
incentive) be used to build such devices, other concerns present
greater problems. Since weapon systems will be both easier to build
and more likely to draw investment, the potential for dangerous
systems is best considered in the context of military competition and
arms control." Link
Grey Lady Dude, Check This Out!
Grey Lady Dude, Check This Out!
05/06/2004 04:12 PMDude, Check This Out, the totally frictionless blogging tool that my
old OpenCola partners have created, got a mention in today's NYT --
congrats, guys!
To use the service, you must download a browser toolbar. Then, when
visiting an interesting site, you click on "Dude It" to automatically
post a link to an existing blog or to a MyBlog page at the site. (You
can also highlight pictures or text to go along with the link.)
Comments can be added to the link, and you can also send the entire
posting to friends by e-mail. In a way, the service has created the
simplest blogging tool imaginable.
Thom Watson, a technology manager in Washington, is an experienced
blogger who longed for a better way to keep track of notable sites. "I
keep my blog mostly for personal thoughts," he said. "I wanted a
really easy way to collect links by topic and comment on them."
Mr. Watson now maintains three MyBlog pages, on general topics, modern
architecture and the Toyota Prius. Better yet, the service sends him
suggestions on sites of potential interest based on similarities
between his postings and those on other MyBlogs. There's even a
social-networking aspect that links users based on their contact
lists.
Link
(
Thanks, Grad!)
HP gets tough with grey market dealers
HP gets tough with grey market dealers
12/10/2003 11:33 AMThe Register Dec 10 2003 10:25AM ET
The Black and White about Grey Tuesday
The Black and White about Grey Tuesday
03/06/2004 01:51 AMThe Grey Album is a remix of Jay-Z's
Black Album and the
Beatles'
White Album by DJ Danger Mouse. It is a remix without
permission. In our legal system, permission is required to remix
others' art (except if the work is in the public domain, and of
course, nothing enters the public domain anymore). The Grey Album is
therefore
illegal art.
Today is
Grey Tuesday -- a
day set by many to protest the war waged on the Grey Album. Sites
across the net are posting the Grey Album. Go
here to see scads of sites
engaging in this act of disobedience. Lawyers representing EMI have
already started warning the sites about the legal liability they face.
Under American law, you don't need permission to make a cover album.
That freedom has been assured since 1909 when Congress granted
creators a compulsory right to remake music, so long as a small fee
was paid. The record companies have fought hard to defend that
compulsory right. As a 1967 Congressional report put it:
The record producers argued vigorously that the compulsory
license system must be retained. They asserted that the record
industry is a half-billion-dollar business of great economic
importance in the United States and throughout the world; records
today are the principal means of disseminating music, and this creates
special problems, since performers need unhampered access to musical
material on nondiscriminatory terms. Historically, the record
producers pointed out, there were no recording rights before 1909 and
the 1909 statute adopted the compulsory license as a deliberate
anti-monopoly condition on the grant of these rights. They argue
that the result has been an outpouring of recorded music, with the
public being given lower prices, improved quality, and a greater
choice.
Copyright Law Revision, Committee on the
Judiciary, 90th Cong. 1st, Sess., Rep. No. 83 66 (March 8, 1967)
(emphasis added).
But the cover right does not cover a remix. So DJ Danger Mouse must,
under the law, ask permission before he can practice his art.
Some artists think this is fair. Some don't like the idea of their
work used without permission. What if Disney remixed DJ Danger Mouse
into a re-release of Mickey-jailed-since-1928-Mouse, without asking or
paying first?
And indeed, it is just this defense that the record companies offer
first: we're just enforcing the wish of the copyright owners. This is
not, they say, a record company cartel. This is about the rights of
artists.
But that defense would be more credible if the record companies were
to allow artists the choice to set their content free for remix at
least. We've been working with
Gilberto Gil to push a
sampling
license, under which artists could set their music free for
dangerous mice and others to remix. But we've yet to find a record
company that will allow their artists this freedom. Indeed, the legal
department at Vivendi purported to ban us from "approaching" "their"
artists.
Should the law give DJ Danger Mouse the right to remix without
permission?
I think so, though I understand how others find the matter a
bit more grey.
Should the law give DJ Danger Mouse a compulsory right to remix? That
is, the right, conditioned upon his paying a small fee per sale?
Again, I think so, and again, you might find this a bit less
grey.
But should the record companies give artists the right to choose to
free their content so that artists like DJ Danger Mouse could remix
without seeking permission first?
There is nothing grey about that question. It is absolutely black and
white. Artists should at least have the right to free their content to
mash or remix. And record companies absolutely should not stand in the
way of at least that.
After doing so much to destroy their reputation in the eyes of most
consumers and artists, signaling at least this would be a useful first
step towards showing that the record companies care about "their"
artists first.
the grey lady twitches her skirt away
from the mud
the grey lady twitches her skirt away
from the mud
09/25/2004 11:13 PMNYT Ed Board: GOP Campaign Tactic
'Un-American'
nytimes.com/2004/09/25/opinion/25sat1.html
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Every silver lining's got a touch of
grey
Every silver lining's got a touch of
grey
05/18/2004 05:59 AM
David
Brown: "Imagine a language where persistence is assumed, and if
you want something to be transient, you have to do something
different."
I find it amazing that so many people with Frontier experience are still on the Web,
and then boom, yesterday's announcement, and they're chattin it up
wonderng what it means. Me too.
It's good to see all the old faces, and it's good to see that
the years haven't dampened their enthusiasm. Yeah, we're a little worse for
the wear, it's cool that the code ages more gracefully than we do.
David Gewirtz says he can't wait to see how some of the features he's
been using for years were implemented. That's the spirit I love. David
I think you'll like it. There's an architecture in there.
I've found that a good script writer can become a good kernel
developer, it takes a few months, maybe more; with Brent and Andre
being the two great examples. And Tim Paustian too. I don't think any
of them had experience with C-level programming, but at some level
working on the kernel is like working in the environment it defines.
It's a little more difficult, but the code runs a lot faster.
In the age of multi-gigahertz CPUs and gigabyte memories, the
possibilities are awesome.
BTW, people who say that it's too late can't know that. And the
expectations are low. All I want it to see the technology preserved.
If one young programmer in Podunk learns something from it, the way I
learned from reading the Unix kernel in the late 70s, then I'm happy.
If it exists on a hard drive somewhere in the year 2040, that'll
exceed my expectations wildly. If a bug gets fixed or a new technique
is learned from reading the code, that would be fantastic. We're not
finished giving, yet.
The Grey Lady of Willard Library
The Grey Lady of Willard Library
10/31/2003 06:07 AM "On a cold winter morning in 1937, a janitor grabbed his
flashlight and headed down into the pitch-black basement of the
Willard Library to stoke the coal furnace." And so begins the
legend of the "
Lady in
Grey," an apparition said to be haunting the aisles of the
Evansville, Indiana building to this very day. In fact, so many have
been said to have
seen her,
and other ghosts, that the library has set up 24-hour
online web cams so that others
may try their hand at spectre spotting. Whether real or not, the cams
have revealed some
interesting, yet
creepy pictures and, some
rather
silly
spoofs.
fascinating backgrounder on the grey
album
fascinating backgrounder on the grey
album
01/19/2004 06:13 AMjay-z and the beatles, together again for the very first time
Backlash as EMI Hunts Down the Grey
Album
Backlash as EMI Hunts Down the Grey
Album
02/14/2004 07:59 PMGrey market, losing charm?
Grey market, losing charm?
08/14/2004 11:46 AMTechTree Aug 14 2004 2:38PM GMT
"the grey lady twitches her skirt away
from the mud"
"the grey lady twitches her skirt away
from the mud"
09/27/2004 02:37 AMScam-grey 1.0 (Default branch)
Scam-grey 1.0 (Default branch)
04/09/2005 02:37 PMScam-grey is a milter that filters email
originating from MS Windows hosts. It provides you
the ability to mitigate the flow of unwanted email
from such hosts using greylisting.
Drexler Clarifies Grey Goo Scenario
Drexler Clarifies Grey Goo Scenario
06/10/2004 12:59 PMEW picks Grey Album for best of 2004
EW picks Grey Album for best of 2004
12/29/2004 03:00 AM
Cory Doctorow:
Entertainment Weekly's Album of the Year is DJ Danger Mouse's The Grey
Album, an album made by mashing up Jay-Z's Black Album and The
Beatles' White Album. The resulting disc is very good, and also
illegal, at least in the eyes of EMI, the Beatles' publisher, who
pursued legal action against Danger Mouse for making the disc.
Link
(
via Waxy)
read the article carefully dumbass..it
mentions the price in Rs..and it says
its the STREET PRICE!!
read the article carefully dumbass..it
mentions the price in Rs..and it says
its the STREET PRICE!!
09/08/2004 01:14 AMTechTree Sep 8 2004 5:56AM GMT
In The Broadband Battle Between Speed
And Price, Customers Choose Price
In The Broadband Battle Between Speed
And Price, Customers Choose Price
12/09/2003 03:39 PMBack in October we noted that DSL and cable providers were trying to
differe
ntiate themselves from each other. The DSL providers were
focusing on being the low cost provider, while the cable guys wanted
to be the high speed providers. At the time, we pointed out that this
was likely to backfire on the cable companies. People like the speed
of broadband, but for most applications there's a "good enough" speed
- and many people want it more for the always on connection than the
speed itself. It's looking like we were right. The latest study
shows that, despite cable's commanding lead in the US,
many
more people are signing up for DSL these days because of the lower
price. It's the basic "good enough" argument. What DSL offers is
good enough for what most people want to do with their connections
now. Also, the speed difference is minimal right now. You don't get
that much faster speeds with cable, and there's not much you can
currently do with that extra bandwidth. It used to be that people
would sign up so they could download songs, but the music industry is
cracking down on that enough that it's become less of a draw for many
subscribers as well.
Space01 Ensures Bright Grey Gets
Brighter
Space01 Ensures Bright Grey Gets
Brighter
04/08/2005 04:55 AMSpace01, the full service digital agency, has been appointed to define
and build the digital Adviser extranet for Edinburgh based financial
services provider, Bright Grey, part of the Royal London Group. [PRWEB
Apr 8, 2005]
WPP Group acquiring Grey Global in deal
WPP Group acquiring Grey Global in deal
09/14/2004 01:38 AMSeattletimes.nwsource.com - Mon Sep 13, 03:59 pm GMT
Europe Sony PSP Grey Market Going Strong
Europe Sony PSP Grey Market Going Strong
03/19/2005 02:45 AM
Reuters
has a story detailing the grey market sales of Sony's PSP in the UK,
something sure to continue as the European launch of Sony's new gaming
portable has been pushed back a few months. You can't beat a 3x
mark-up if you're a retailer, I guess, but I've just never had the
early adoption bug that badly. That said, with the PSP launch coming
up next week, I probably need to find some place to scam a unit or two
out so I can get my game on. It stands to reason that after the last
two weeks of ridiculous traveling, I won't pick up my PSP until I have
a month of staying at home ahead of me.
Gamers Go Under the Counter for New Sony Gadget
[Reuters]
Grey Gamers - Oldies Catch Computer Bug
Grey Gamers - Oldies Catch Computer Bug
12/03/2003 06:21 AMSky News Dec 3 2003 5:44AM ET
A touch of grey in Bluetooth's silver
lining
A touch of grey in Bluetooth's silver
lining
11/11/2003 10:17 PMComputer Weekly Nov 11 2003 9:07PM ET
Move over, Grey Album -- "London,
Booted"
Move over, Grey Album -- "London,
Booted"
04/20/2004 08:46 PMFormer BoingBoing guestblogger Todd Lappin says,
"Hot on the heels of the Grey Album
comes another innnnteresting mash-up/bootleg project that was
originally posted as a collaborative challenge to DJs in February.
The goal: Take one track from the Clash's "London Calling," and "remix
it, add to it, subtract from it
- put your own tributary spin on it." The result is "London Booted" -
19 tracks (plus a few bonus extras) of eclectically reinterpreted
Clash. In return for the download, the project organizers are asking
listeners to donate to one of several charities, including Future
Forests, a reforestation initiative that was a favorite of Joe
Strummer. For £17.50 you can even have your own tree in Joe
Strummer's Rebel Woods, a future forests project on the Isle of
Lucy... er... Skye."
I'm fond of "Bubba's Got a Brand New Cadillac," "What about Brixton,"
and "(Spanish Bombs) over Baghdad," a mashup with a track from
Outkast's
Stankonia. Hmmmm.... Outklash?
Link to
London Booted home, and try
this alternate
site if that doesn't work.
Grey Dog Software Launches New Company
and Website
Grey Dog Software Launches New Company
and Website
09/10/2004 03:32 AMGrey Dog Software, LLC, a leading developer of sport simulations for
the pc announces the launch of its new website and product lineup.
[PRWEB Sep 10, 2004]
SMS FAQ: Crystal Reports Hangs with a
Grey Screen
SMS FAQ: Crystal Reports Hangs with a
Grey Screen
04/15/2005 05:56 PMGrey Album civil disobedience campaign
Grey Album civil disobedience campaign
02/19/2004 02:55 AMthere might be more important causes, but it's an interesting protest
against anti-art copyright laws
GreyTuesday: mass mirroring of the Grey
Album
GreyTuesday: mass mirroring of the Grey
Album
02/19/2004 12:46 PMGreyTuesday is an effort to protest EMI's crackdown on DJ Danger
Mouse's amazing Grey Album.
Tuesday, February 24 will be a day of coordinated civil disobedience:
websites will post Danger Mouse's Grey Album on their site for 24
hours in protest of EMI's attempts to censor this work.
Link
(
Thanks, Pat!)
Bacardi agrees to buy Grey Goose vodka
Bacardi agrees to buy Grey Goose vodka
06/22/2004 01:05 AMSeattletimes.nwsource.com - Mon Jun 21, 07:43 am GMT
Jay-Z v. the Beatles -- "Grey Album"
food fight
Jay-Z v. the Beatles -- "Grey Album"
food fight
02/13/2004 02:20 AMBoingBoing pal (and former guestblogger) Todd Lappin points us to yet
another food fight between copyright and Remix Culture.
DJ Danger Mouse remixed Jay-Z's "Black Album" with the Beatles "White
Album" to create... The "Grey Album," of course.
The New Yorker had a little T
alk of the Town piece on this, Apparently, Jay-Z created a
vocals-only version of his album *explicitly* so DJs could remix it.
And many have. This week, the Beatles issued a cease and desist to stop the Grey Album... which
of course makes the Grey Album even more desirable as a collector's
item, so now the whole album is available for download. Here's the
commentary above the download links:
"Special interests, including the major labels, have turned copyright
law into a weapon," said Downhill Battle co-founder Holmes Wilson. "If
Danger Mouse had requested permission and offered to pay royalties,
EMI still would have said no and the public would never have been able
to enjoy this critically acclaimed work. Artists are being forced to
break the law to innovate."
So is the Grey Album any good? Hell yes! I've been listening to it
for a few days, and it grows on me more and more with each listen.
Link.
Grey lady gets on board the Bush Guard
story
Grey lady gets on board the Bush Guard
story
02/11/2004 01:37 PMGrok Description matches for Grey stage set for UK PS2 price war
GrokA matches for Grey stage set for UK PS2 price war
Grey stage set for UK PS2 price war
