same as it ever was

“Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.” [Motivational Quotes of the Day]

Yesterday’s work lesson: How we treat one another is more important than who is right. Music: Django Reinhardt :: Some Of These Days… [birdhouse.org]

Discovered through my referrers today: Seablogs, a Seattle Weblogs Portal. I appear to be included (though not with my RSS link).
[jarretthousenorth News]

How To Make A Telemarketer Cry.
Mark, a lawyer, was woken at 5:24am by an automated telemarketer. This is a detailed account of how he sued and got $500 from the telemarketer, with plenty of details to help others repeat his success.
[Boing Boing] [eardrumbuzz radio weblog]

Here we go again. Technology is like the proverbial horse out of the barn. Mac sites sharing music downloaded from the iTunes Music Store have the music industry in a tizzy. “It sounds as if it is a hole in the security that needs to be closed,” Cary Ramos, an attorney for the National Music […]

News.Com: “The RIAA’s automated program apparently confused two separate pieces of information — a legal MP3 and a directory named ‘usher’ — and concluded there was an illegal copy of a song by the musician Usher.” [Scripting News]

Are aliens hiding their messages?
In an article to appear on May 10, the New Scientist carries a fascinating answer to the problem of why we never — yet — caught any signals from extraterrestrial civilizations. Here is a link to a preview of this article.
Two physicists have come up with an intriguing solution. They suggest […]

Able to leap firewalls and disable anti-virus software, the new mass-mailing worm hit tens of thousands of PCs in Europe and Asia. Now the infection has spread to North America by way of Outlook and Kazaa. The RIAA has not said, ‘I told ya so.’ [Wired News]

When bad weather causes WFMU’s satellite feed to fail, they have an iPod on hand to provide the programming. (WFMU is my favorite radio station, available as a stream on iTunes.) LinkDiscuss(via Ventureblog) [Boing Boing Blog]

Remember to look up on Thursday night at around 7pm PST for a full lunar eclipse. Totality’s at 8.14pm. [raelity bytes]