Dave heard today that there's Napster clones in Canada. Well what do you know. We actually run a Napster clone up here in Waterloo, Canada (just don't tell our ISP :) ). So I told him we're one of the bad guys. In order to help his readers connect up with us or anyone else I wrote him a quick and dirty guide to Napster clones. Go nuts (and use Fairtunes!)
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SmartTags. First got pointed to an article in the WSJ, entitled, New Windows XP Feature Can Re-Edit Others' Sites and then they've been popping up ever since. Here's a Davenet piece on them. Here's a screenshot so you can see them in action.

Now the kicker is that this whole idea of SmartTags is something that my friend Tim Langeman has been ranting and raving about since about September. His idea is Open Reference. Of course anything with the prefix open is natuarally going to be better than anything the Big Behemoth can come up with. Unfortunately Tim doesn't have billions of dollars to persue his vision.
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Jake's got an interesting take on whether McVeigh's execution should be broadcast:

In my humble opinion, people in this country who approve of the the death penalty, especially those who are close to the fence, might change their minds, if they were to witness the actual taking of a human life.
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A weekend in Toronto invariably costs $100 for food, entertainment, transport, and beverage.

Last night we went for dinner with Dan Webster a guy from FLIPR, a p2p music thing in Montreal. We were really supposed to go for Pho but it was all very last minute.

After a very long (service was slow) dinner at Cafe California we went to Cameron House to see Melissa Ferrick but much to our surprise the place was packed with a line! Maeve was extremely disappointed. Determined to get in we waited and waited and waited. Even though the line was only about 10 long and the place and enough standing room we were forced to miss her entire set. Afterwards though we got in for Shawn Mullins which I thought was the reason everyone was packing the room but I guess not. Maeve says to never underestimate the lesbian appeal thing. But we could take solace in the fact that Melissa would be playing somewhere else tonight at 7pm. So surprisingly though Shawn Mullins was pretty good. And contrary to Langeman's belief, live music is always better.
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