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To: Sony
I hereby announce that I will not purchase any Sony products from this point until the company ends it’s new “copy protected CD” policy that prevents me from playing my legally purchased CD’s on legally purchased equipment. This includes all media, or hardware made by Sony.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned
I’m not sure if any of you [...]

Today is the launch date of Nintendo’s Wi-Fi site. It has everything we need to know about Nintendo Wi-Fi like Wireless Hotspot locations, Router recommendations, and of couse the all the details on the wireless games such as Mario Kart and Tony Hawk!
Enjoy!
- Devious
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According to a new proposal being considered by a suburb of New York City, any business or home office with an open wireless connection but no separate server to fend off Internet attacks would be violating the law.
Hah! Can’t wait to see if this actually passes through.
Either way, Enjoy!
- Devious
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Google has updated their Adsense service and now pays publishers for referrals. Google now pays $1 for each Firefox download with the Google Toolbar installed.
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IBM announced Thursday the creation of a type of light that might eventually replace the use of electricity in electronic components. Read the link for more information.
- Devious
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Found this hilarious article over at Sillicon Valley Sleuth. I read it myeslf and it is absolutely hilarious. Enjoy.
Yahoo engineers apparently couldn’t help themselves. The beta of the new Yahoo Maps for a short while listed “The Dude’s Fish Store” at 1600 Amphiteatre Parkway in Mountain View, CA.

The address is better known as the headquarters [...]

While searching through Digg, I found a really cool site that can show you any website as if you were color blind.
Want to give it a try? go here: http://colorfilter.wickline.org/.
I’m not color blind, and I’ve definitely never wondered what it is, but hey, still a nifty link to check out!
Unfortunately, this is the top article [...]

For all of you email and thunderbird users, Mozilla.org released Thunderbird 1.5 RC1 recently.
Here’s whats new in Thunderbird 1.5 RC1:
* Automated update to streamline product upgrades. Notification of an update is more prominent, and updates to Thunderbird may now be half a megabyte or smaller. Updating extensions has also improved.
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I’ve installed a pluggin called the Ultimate Tagging Warrior. It is a category system that can surpass the possibilities of categories. I can tag things on the fly, and organize the postings better.
This shouldn’t affect visitors to much, but it makes my job a lot easier!
If you go to the archives page, you [...]

Here’s a fun thing to play around with, if you’re bored at 3am. Most Sony digital cameras start saving photos with the following name “DSC00001.JPG” and a lot of people take these photos and upload them to the web, where the all-knowing, all-seeing Google later catalogs all of them. So by clicking this link you [...]