Weblogger Sean Bonner phonecammed a funny discovery in the laser-printable-label aisle at Staples today — the “sample address” on the packaging for Avery #8293 is addressed to Brad Pitt’s character in the movie Fight Club
Flickr has just added Creative Commons licenses to the photos you upload and share…More
The interview between non-White House Press Corps journalist, Carole Coleman and President Bush…More
The BBC has submitted its Charter Renewal documents to the UK Government, outlining its plans for the next ten years. It’s a long and comprehensive document, and most excitingly, it describes a free and open Creative Archive intended to provide Britons with access to the material in the BBC’s vaults for free viewing, remixing and reuse.Imagine being able to view and listen — and even download and own — extracts from the world’s largest television and radio archive.
53% of internet users download content for their own compilations 55. For the first time, the BBC will open up its treasure chest of programmes to the public who own it and make its contents available to individuals and to families for learning, for creativity and for pleasure. Two-thirds of current and prospective broadband users say they are interested in the Creative Archive service.
The BBC Creative Archive will establish a pool of high-quality content which can be legally drawn on by collectors, enthusiasts, artists, musicians, students, teachers and many others, who can search and use this material non-commercially. And where exciting new works and products are made using this material, we will showcase them on BBC services.
Initially we will release factual material, beginning with extracts from natural history programmes. As demand grows, we are committed to extending the Creative Archive across all areas of our output.
Apple® today previewed Mac OS® X Server version 10.4 “Tiger,” the next major release of Apple’s award-winning, UNIX-based server operating system that makes it easy to deploy popular open source solutions for Mac®, Windows and Linux clients. The fifth major release of Mac OS X Server, Tiger Server continues Apple’s blazing pace of innovation to deliver over 200 new features including native support for 64-bit applications, ideal for high performance computing; Weblog Server that makes hosting a weblog as simple as checking a box; iChat Server to deploy private, encrypted communications within an organization; and migration tools to make it easy to upgrade from legacy Windows servers to Mac OS X Server.
“With more than 200 new features, Tiger Server is the best release of Mac OS X Server ever,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “Tiger Server combines over 100 of the best solutions from the open source world with Apple’s legendary ease-of-use to create the easiest way to deploy powerful open source server solutions.”
For the first time, Tiger Server can natively run 64-bit processes for database, engineering and scientific applications to take advantage of the increased performance unleashed when accessing massive amounts of memory while still running side-by-side with existing 32-bit applications. Combined with Apple’s Xserve® G5 server hardware, Tiger Server offers an affordable, easy-to-manage solution for high performance computing…More
Microsoft Corp. says it is looking to turn over more of its programs to open-source software developers, playing a greater role in a process that the Redmond company has criticized strongly at times in the past.
Money-makers like the company’s Windows operating system and Office productivity suite aren’t on the table — or anywhere near it.
But the company has so far released two software-development tools to the open-source community, and it wants to continue the practice, a Microsoft platform manager told an industry group this week.
“There’s more of that on the way,” said Microsoft’s Stephen Walli, who oversaw the process of releasing those tools under open-source licenses. “And it’s not just about developer tools. There’s other things that we can be looking at when you actually look at the breadth of source code that we have, the breadth of software that we have that isn’t actually core (to Microsoft’s) revenue stream.”…More
This week, after 20 months of doing nothing about North Korea’s drive to build nuclear weapons, President Bush finally put a proposala set of incentives for disarmamenton the negotiating table. The remarkable thing is, the deal is practically identical to the accord that President Clinton signed with Pyongyang in 1994an accord that Bush condemned and scuttled from the moment he took over the White House.
It’s good that Bush has at last realized that diplomacy is the only way to solve the crisis. But he’s come a bit late to this epiphany. North Korea has greatly strengthened its hand in the interim. Two years ago, its 8,000 fuel rods were padlocked under international inspection. Now, they’ve been reprocessed into bomb-grade plutonium…More
Billboard has the lowdown on the Little Steven’s International Underground Garage Festival that will be held at NYC’s Randall’s Island on August 14th. For a mere $20 ($25 the day of the show) you get Iggy and the Stooges, the Strokes, the New York Dolls, Bo Diddley, Raveonettes, the Pretty Things, the Mooney Suzuki, the Romantics, the Chesterfield Kings, the Fuzztones, The Shazam, the Electric Prunes, the Contrast, Cocktail Strippers, the High Dials, the Chains, Flaming Sideburns and more.
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