Step 1: Set up a MacBook Pro at a computer security conference.
Step 2: Offer $10,000 to the first person who can crack it.
Step 3: ????

No one's claimed it yet!

Via Daring Fireball is this great article on Yahoo!'s future versus that of Google.

More here. Yahoo seems hanging on by the skin of their webmail.

Fotowhoosh: Turn your photos into 3-D models. (Caution: Annoying autoplay music.)

What these means for Google Maps will be interesting.

Labels: Photography, virtual reality, web 2.0

another attempt by Sony to whittle their market down to single individuals.

It's almost as if they don't want to be succesful.

The ultimate drum solo (trio?).

Enjoy.

Google's buying DoubleClick for $3.1 billion.

I, for one, welcome our new online advertising overlords, and I'd like to remind them that as a trusted member of the online marketing community, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground click farms,

Kurt Vonnegut has left us.

So it goes.

But man, is that a loss.

A friend from my past is no longer with us.

I haven't seen or talked to Jason in over ten years, but he was a good friend for a long time, and he went out doing something he loved.

Not many people can leave this Earth that way.

The rangers had a homecoming in harlem late last night
And the magic rat drove his sleek machine over the jersey state line
Barefoot girl sitting on the hood of a dodge
Drinking warm beer in the soft summer rain
The rat pulls into town rolls up his pants
Together they take a stab at romance and disappear down flamingo lane

- Bruce Springsteen, "Jungleland"

Online digital photo editing. And they include the API so you can add it to your site.

Neat.

First, there was the announcement of DRM-free tracks in iTunes.

Now there's Tunecore.

The marketing implications for unsigned bands is just staggering. Now anyone can get their music into the #1 digital distribution system on the planet.

Remind me again: Why do musicians need the RIAA anymore?