Thanks for 5 years

Though you may not see evidence of it in the archives, The Daily Thing celebrated its 5th birthday this month. The Daily Thing has always been about things I find interesting and want to comment on or share with others. Hopefully you have found something you like or enjoy that keeps you coming back. Anyway,…

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Castro Proposes Energy Savings Over U.S. Biofuel Dependancy

Here’s something interesting from the web. Cuban President Fidel Castro has published some articles in Granma, the Cuban daily newspaper, pointing out what should be apparent to every American, trading our dependency on foreign oil for a dependency on biofuels will only hurt us in the end. Caribbean Net News: “Castro and his Venezuelan counterpart…

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links for 2007-06-05

Five simple steps to designing grid systems – Part 5 : Journal : Mark Boulton (tags: design howto techniques tutorials web work layout webdesign grid css)

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Apple Playing Games With Users Private Information

Breaking news this week, it appears Apple, maker of the wildly popular iPod music player, has been caught embedding users personal information in the music files they buy from iTunes. CNET News.com: “Apple includes customer names and e-mail addresses within song files purchased from iTunes, according to Fred von Lohmann, an EFF attorney. Several tech…

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Judge to RIAA: You need to pay up.

Again an Oklahoma judge has thrown out a lawsuit by RIAA and ordered them to reimburse the defendant for fees incurred while defending herself in the lawsuit. “…Court did conclude that the Fogertv factor regarding the need for compensating the prevailing party under the particular circumstances of the case was, in fact, met. The Court…

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links for 2007-04-18

Songbird Now Supports iTunes Library Import and Sync With iPod Songbird, the cross platform music suite, now imports all your iTunes libraries and can sync with your iPod. (tags: opensource media free audio songbird addons extensions)

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Songbird Flys High

If you’ve ever looked at this blog you’ve probably saw me mention Songbird (www.songbirdnest.com) before but now there’s even more reason to rejoice. Songbird now imports all the tracks from your iTunes library! How cool is that? But, wait, there’s more. Songbird also synchs with mobile devices including the iPod. So you can buy music…

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Magnum PI Eat Your Heart Out

Check this out! Dane Carlson from Business Opportunities Weblog saw someone hopping his neighbors fence, grabbed his camera and then snapped pics of the would-be thief as he fled after the homes alarm went off. But Dane DIDN’T stop there. He jumped in his car and followed him around the block where the suspect changed…

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