I think my wife may have gotten a bit too much sun at the pool. She just handed me a pile of laundry with explict instructions that they be placed in the dishwasher. I need to go check the dryer to make sure none of our silverware needs rescued.
Bringing Back The Cassette Tape
Why should the cassette tape make a comeback?
Mp3s sound terrible anyways, so why not have something that sounds terrible that you can hold? ~ Jahnle
New Kindle – Blind Lawsuits
Looks like the National Federation for the Blind can drop their lawsuit now. The new Kindle offers voice prompts to read the menu items to you. I hope they now sue the publishers that are having Amazon remove the text to speech options for certain books because they think you need to buy a CD if you want to have a book read aloud.
Legal to Decrypt DVDs for Educational Use
According to this article from the NY Times, a recent court ruling says that it is legal to decrypt DVD’s in order to use their content for educational uses. It also says that it is legal to jail break your iPhone in order to install software outside of the Apple store.
Bluray and Movie Trailers
Dear Sony: When my three year old daughter and I sit down to watch a documentary about fish, your Bluray player shouldn’t force us to watch movie trailers of scary things she doesn’t need to see. I paid for the movie. I paid for the player. Why won’t you let me decide what I should watch?