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From a request on another page, I've put up some rather boring pictures I took Monday at the Union Square Green Market. If you're not familiar, this is what makes it possible to live in NYC (assuming you can't afford to eat out for every possible meal :-)
According to the latest Nielsen/NetRatings, more women than men now use the internet in the USA. That must be good somehow.
Somebody I haven't seen before in the small group over at HackthePlanet has posted a very reasonable sounding way to set up MP3's to allow people to easily send money (voluntarily) to the tracks artist. Very convining scenario. I doubt we'll see this adopted any time soon, but I do think it would work. (Slightly technical, as usual for HTP, assumes you know what public key encryption is, ect...)
This is the living and working module for the International Space Station. It's going up on Wednesday to dock with the the other two pieces (the other picture over there on the left.) We are leaving the planet, however tenuously. The BBC has the story.
I think this might work. Pre-paid debit cards for on-line shopping. Sold at 7-11's and backed by Amex, they are good anywhere on the web that a regular American Express card would be. I wonder which on line segment of the market this is going to help out most? (Hint: the only one that makes any money to begin with.) Iis it an irony that 7-11 made a lot of fuss about getting out of that business a few years ago?
Big week for Napster. Probably it will be shut down on Wednesday (although nothing is final at this point.) Dave Winer waxes nostalgic about the little program that changed everything. Sure, he's a little over the top, and a bit of an aging hippy, but is that so bad?