Some encouraging -- and extremely surprising -- news from the Evil Recording Industry People: they've come to their senses. Universal and Sony are going to start providing downloadable music for US 99 cents for singles and US$9.99 for an album, in a format that you can burn onto CDs (not MP3s -- still a scrambled format that prevents easy file-sharing, apparently). But pretty cool, nonetheless. This seems even more attractive now that the labels have started flooding the file-sharing networks with bogus versions of popular songs, notably Sheryl Crow and No Doubt: they share files of the right size and labelling that consist of 20-second loops of the songs. Aaargh!
Other interesting tidbits:

A credit-card sized digital camera. No flash, no zoom, crap quality, but cheap and small. Want one.

Another KeenSpot comic, Sexy Losers is well-drawn, extremely funny and rated R.

This is a good source of DivX software. DivX of course being the video format used to encode DVDs which are, um, "backed up in the public domain" :-)

Possibly the most offensively arrogant American ever. An article by him, to be specific.

There's a Rosetta Stone for UNIX, a huge table which allows you to work out how to do anything you can do on one version of Linux on any other version. How useful is that?

From the San Francisco Chronicle (where else?) comes a story about gay men's Internet usage habits. Hint: gay men are interested in sex. Interesting, but how is this different from straight men's browsing habits? :-)

Also from the Chronicle (the article I read initially) is a story about interesting upcoming nanotech or near-nanotech products. One not mentioned is IBM's new nanotech storage medium, really fascinating and dazzlingly high-capacity: 200,000 CD's worth in a chip the size of a postage stamp. I want one of those, too -- I can store the pictures from my camera on it.
And that's quite enough for the moment, I think. Go listen to some music or something.