Interesting news links for April 7, 2006

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Time-Warner/AOL has a brain, and the MPAA and other associations should learn from this. You can now either download episodes of Wonder Woman, Babylon 5, and others for FREE, or you can watch them via streaming video.

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It is an often used phrase in the software world. “Eat your own dogfood” means to use your own product, or to follow your own rules. This article talks about an attempt to make Supreme Court Justice David Souter do just that.

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Although not very new, it is still a danger to travellers, or anyone for that matter. Pencil guns were outlawed some time ago, but these probably are too. I’m not sure one of these would make it through security–today’s imaging systems do a good job of looking through layers and coloring items of different density.

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This Dumbass of the Day award goes to Arlie Bichlmeier. He allegedly robbed a bank, but the police found him because his license plate said “FINDME”.

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It’s been a long running joke among my friends that when whenever Computer Associates buys anything, start looking for a new product. Will this be the same?

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Yet another dumbass of the day award. This one goes to an artist who chained his legs together in the desert, and lost the key. The article doesn’t really mention why he chained his legs together, so I’ll just have to speculate.

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A number of sites offered “Bill Me Later” services this year. This was convenient, but how and why was it used?

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I work in an industry where I need to know the breakdowns of Internet usage in the US and Europe, broken down by line speed and other demographics. There have not been a lot of good stats about this recently. As I was looking at peragro this morning, I saw an article from Internet World Stats. After browsing a while, I found two things: First, that their data for the US is still 2003; Second is that they either don’t know much about math, or they don’t review anything.

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Everyone who knows me knows that I like device convergence. A few weeks ago, I wrote about a phone-GPS-workout-watch. Here is one for you car: A full-fledged GPS combined with a media-player and a 20G hard drive.

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