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...with that UFO crash in Holland two years ago.

http://odeo.com/episodes/22014686-John-Hodgman-on-Dungeons-and-Dragons

This man's use of language reminds me of Terry Pratchett somehow. The American version.

...and the sound while a tad disturbing was hilarious as well.

It's true. This documentary has the actual call of the dodo. Skip forward to about 4:20.

You're thinking of the Monkees, maybe.

The Stones

Well, it's not heavy metal, but this is a piece of music made entirely from the sounds of dying hard drives...

The gizmodo Hitachi song competition has already been mentioned below, but the winning entry is just amazing.

I don't know where he lives, but everybody knows that he rests in Bari, Italy and had a Turkish passport

And don't forget the 6 to 8 black men that he travels with...

The Day of Jerusalem's Fall (on 9/11)
Confusing God and Government (with the "God Damn America" quote)

Listen to them start to end, then come back and tell me it's hateful.

The Day of Jerusalem's Fall (on 9/11)
Confusing God and Government (with the "God Damn America" quote)

Listen to them start to end, then come back and tell me it's hateful.

Hitachi_Hard-Drive_Project_-_Noriko_Version.mp3

Written by James Postlethwaite, whose home page I can't find, and made entirely out of hard drive failure noises (Hitachi provide a nice set of wavs).

[Ed. Note. For full effect, you should imagine this being read by the always helpful June Thomas]

Actually the age criteria for nude photography is a bit more complicated than a simple inequality. You can photograph anyone regardless of age (assuming of course you have his/her and/or his/her parrent/guardian's informed consent), as long as it's not in a "sexually explicit or lude and lascivious manner." This why you can have pictures of naked babies, children's genetalia in medical or sex-ed books, even in art. If the photographs or video are in sexual manner, then you have to 18.

How do you know where to draw the line when prosecuting child porn cases? In practice you don't have to define the exactly where the line is. A video of a grown man ejaculating on a nude 5 year old's face is pretty good indication, of that video being on the wrong side of the law. Same for a photo of 10 year old spreading her labia for the camera.

So how do investigators know that the individidual in the photograph or video is a real person that is under 18 years of age at the time of recording? Easy. The FBI and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children have an incredibly large collection of child porn. Like all porn, child porn is shared widely and has a very long life time. Investigators look for previously identified bonafied child porn, and prosecute on those instances. New suspected child porn is identified by medical doctors, who examine the material an give an expert opinion of whether the individual is underage. (Yes, they also maintain a database of false positives.)

When it comes to possession, posession is illegal. While it may be a dubious comfort, the US Attorney probably won't prosecute you for each individual photo or video in your 100 GB pr0n collection, but rather for just a two or three photos or videos. I say it's dubious, because you'll still be going to jail for a long long time.

And before anyone gets the wrong idea. I recently served on a federal grand jury. The Assistant US Attorney explained the law to us.

In an unrelated case, he ran a DEA video explaining -- in detail -- three methods used to manufacture methamphetamines. Yes. You could take notes. ;)

Define "high usage website". RoR-powered sites like 43 Things and ODEO don't seem like backyard hobby projects to me.

This (sorry; podcast, but at least it's short) is the best answer I've heard. I'm going to put this on my Asterisk system.

Episode #8
http://www.twitchasylum.com/index.php

iTunes: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/ viewPodcast?id=124843362&s=143441
Odeo: http://odeo.com/listen/subscribe?feed=http://feeds .feedburner.com/TwitchAsylum

Cheers,
itripn

Blah. Second link was supposed to be studio.odeo.com, not odio. That'll teach me to preview before I post.

Paid LJ subscribers can call a phone number and record an audio entry into their LiveJournal. Have been able to for some time. It doesn't have the whole threading thing, but I've recorded entries from my cellphone before.

Meanwhile, Odeo.com allows anyone with a computer and a microphone to become a podcaster, using simplified Flash-based audio tools. Hook a phone interface to Odeo and you'd probably be set.

The actual numbers for traffic, from his source, are 1.6 million man-hours and 8 million gallons of gas. The average American makes $16.49 per hour, and gas costs $2.78 per gallon. So traffic consumes $48 million dollars per day.

(Note that at 800 million gallons a day, the gas alone would cost $2.22 billion per day, or $812 billion a year - or 6.5% of GDP.)

Podcasting is the solution: Get the data when you're connected to a nice, high speed land line, store it on the digital media player of your choice in nice high quality formats where you don't have to make compromises due to transmission speed limits, and then listen to your heart's content. Don't like a particular show? Skip it, no waiting for the show you want to come on. It's all the content [i]you[/i] want constantly at your fingertips.

And best of all it doesn't gib when you go into a tunnel...

Podcasting is getting big with sites like ClickCaster, Podnova, and Odeo. I really do think that Podcasting will bring about the death of traditional radio, and hopefully we'll see Vidcasting as a replacement for TV.

The Wired article is more in depth, but it repeatedly calls the project "Obeo" rather than the correct name "Oboe".

I suppose you could blame Evan Williams. Maybe we'll see a correction. or not.

These ones are definetely worth checking out:

http://www.loomia.com/ (similar to Yahoo's, but also has collaborative filtering)
http://www.odeo.com/ (lets you create podcasts)
http://www.podshow.com/ (Adam Curry)

Rapid Reporting is running their identity and income verification engine on top of a Rails system. It's used by roughly 80% of the top 1000 mortgage underwriters in the US and is built to handle 2 million mortgage application transactions per month.

Check out ODEO for podcasting goodness. Works WITH LINUX!

http://www.odeo.com/

Was also built using Ruby on Rails

And there's Odeo about which there was a New York Times Article