real-life kernel to what will surely become an urban legend in the Montreal Gazette today. It’s about a guy who returned a defective Visor back-up module to Bureau en Gros (that would be Staples to non-Montrealers) – only to have a friend call him up and let him know that he’d been reading the guy’s diary in the store a minute ago. The story’s been going around Montreal for a couple of days now – I know a couple of journalists who were approached with the story, and the guy whose life was on display is a friend of a friend. Anyhow – each time I’ve heard it the story has mutated a little bit. It’s only a matter of time until we start hearing that the Visor had nuclear secrets on it or something like that.
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I’m sure that
Ms. Batista is a fine journalist and all, but this article on Hotmail in Wired News is, well, not news in any way that I can figure. When exactly has Hotmail not been flaky as hell? What is Wired being reduced to?
Tom noted that
Tom noted that NME is reporting that the Deal sisters played a Breeders comeback show in LA last night. As Tom said, this is big news for all right-thinking people.
The peer to peer
part of Tim O’Reilly’s article Remaking the Peer-to-Peer Meme [O’Reilly Network via Ed] might be the least interesting part of it – though it’s a good read. More interesting to me is to see the thought process. Like Ed, I want to work with meme maps a bit more – they could be really useful in my job.
I have quite a few
famous friends and acquaintances – some of them too famous to mention for fear that someone would get the wrong idea. I don’t know if it qualifies her as “famous” but I’m really happy to see an old high school (and since, on and off) friend’s article as the top story at Slate today.
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