- Wow, check out this spam art. Plants created from spam? I’d like to be able to turn a program like this onto the comment spammers and make art out of their trash.
- Maybe not on Satellite Radio. I have considered making the plunge on several occasions but have passed because we wouldn’t use it enough. Q2 revenues for both XM and Sirirus are down. Maybe the Howard Stern impact is starting to wear off? XM down more than Sirius. [source: Washington Post]
- Sacrilige! Monopoly is dumping cash for plastic? I really liked those dark gold 500 bills. And a VISA logo on the card reader too? Just don’t take away the dump that is Baltic Avenue. [source: Makezine]
- No reason for further Vista delay says Microsoft, but is speech recognition still not ready for primetime? My last experience trying SR out on the Tablet PC was met with similar frustration. It will be great when we can really get to voice activated menus. Even our car which uses OnStar — the best real world experience in our life with SR — still has problems, especially when there is a lot of road noise or rain.
- Google Adwords now shows publishers invalid click estimates, nice feature that should help with transparency. Now if only Adsense affiliates would get the same/similar stats.
- Kevin Smith, the guy behind Clerks and Jay and Silent Bob artfully uses his blog to defend a contest that offended a critic over names being used in the credits of Clerks II.
- PDA and cell phone users, Google Maps now has a mobile portal: google.com/gmm
- Mark Cuban is offering a job to anybody that can come up with a good idea that isn’t already being tried for how to get more people into the theaters to watch his HDTV movies. 144 suggestions comments of this writing.
- Zennstrom and Friis who created disruptive products in Kazaa and Skype are creating something behind the scenes that will allow trading of videos, according to Businessweek, codename: The Venice Project. And speaking of Kazaa, they settled with the RIAA for $115 million and are going legit.
- A programmer claims, under oath on video, that he was asked to create a program that would fix the Florida elections. Great, now how long before we see an O’Reilly book called: Election Hacks?

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