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Today Pandora went into a "Day of Silence" as a protest for the fact that "an arbitration committee in Washington DC" has decided to charge excessive amounts to Internet radio stations like Pandora making it virtually impossible to afford the licenses to play music on the net effectively putting businesses like Pandora out of business.

This is sad. I've signed the petition (as a european you have to be inventive to sign it) and tried to spread the word to as many people as I possibly can.

I think it would be very sad if internet radio like Pandora would disappear since for someone like me who doesn't like Britney Spears or Michael Jackson there really isn't many good alternative sources with fresh ideas for good music. All the CDs I've bought in the last year has been by being inspired by songs played on Pandora. If the RIAA manage to close down Pandora I'm going to stop buying CDs and stubbornly only download songs from pirate bittorrent sites. There you have it!

Try to participate if you care about evil corporate organisations damaging the arts.

I'm not, but if you're one of those people who sometimes download "cheap" bittorrents, then one such good website for finding them is Torrentz.com

They've got a very cute error message that appears when the server is too busy. Check out the attached screenshot.

Can you guess what the fattest sandwich is, that Subway sells, out of these?

• Cheese Steak
• Chipotle Southwest Cheese Steak
• Italian BMT
• Meatball Marinara
• Chicken & Bacon Ranch
• Spicy Italian
• Tuna
• Subway Melt
• Veggie Patty

favicon2dots is a cute little app that converts your favicon to a "dot image" or whatever it's called.

Here's what mine looks like.

This is probably one of the funniest clips I've seen since the last one that made my laugh out loud.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkD90ZV07zo

The guys is trying to write a Perl program in notepad and the Vista voice recognition program is not helping. It's amazing that they guy doesn't give up. In fact it's actually quite impressive how he continues to struggle on. Enjoy!

UPDATE

This clip has been removed from YouTube unfortunately. Does anybody know where else it can be found?

Google Groups has just had a redesign. Maybe this is old news but it's new for me.

I like the new design a lot. It's more welcoming and warmer. Comparing it to the old design you notice that not a great deal has changed except the colour choice and the cuddly icons. I think the icons are great. Icons is a time-tested proven concept and by making the icons large it'll take less milliseconds for users to click on them with the mouse because they're easier to aim at.

I also like the fact that each group or category gets its own icons. It's something I'd like to have for some of my yet-to-be-released projects but I don't have the resources to get a designer to design all the various icons. I guess this is part of what makes the icons so impressive, that they're not just cuddly but damn hard to do.

Good work Google Groups people!

Maybe the design of csdc.net is just as bad as any other website but what's really unique about this company brochure site is the logo. "We Develop Success" in quotation marks as well. Why? Is that not what you do? Or is it a quote from someone anonymous?

The HTML code stinks of Microsoft-only. There's loads and loads of code like this:

<script language="JavaScript"><!--
if(MSFPhover) { MSFPnav14n=MSFPpreload("_derived/CSAS2 Budget 
Management.htm_cmp_ice174010_vbtn.gif"); MSFPnav14h=MSFPpreload(
"_derived/CSAS2 Budget Management.htm_cmp_ice174010_vbtn_a.gif"); }
// --></script><a href="CSAS2%20Budget%20Management.htm" 
language="JavaScript" onmouseover="if(MSFPhover) 
document['MSFPnav14'].src=MSFPnav14h.src" onmouseout="if(MSFPhover) 
document['MSFPnav14'].src=MSFPnav14n.src"><img 
src="_derived/CSAS2%20Budget%20Management.htm_cmp_ice174010_vbtn.gif" 
width="147" height="31" border="0" alt="Budget Management" 
name="MSFPnav14"></a><br>

You'll get quite a shock when you visit the site with Firefox because the letters "csdc" is shown as <big> to the power of 20!! Here's a screenshot of it in Safari too

Art that is arty and difficult from a practical perspective to create is always appreciated. These pictures of pencil art are truely amazing. One of those pictures would have been impressive enough for me to blog about it. But they've made 21! And they're all amazing.

UPDATE If you, like me, found that amazing, check out these metallic animals too wow!

What a good little website this is! It's a database with nutritional information about different kinds of food, like bran flakes, meatballs or hot dogs

The search isn't great but it could just be because it's a limited database they have to work with. One immediate piece of feedback; it'd be great if when you do a search that it shows the search form again if you want to change your search term when you're confronted by the results. Look for example at this search result

Here are some amazing images of a less than safe road somewhere in China. I get an uncomfortable feeling in my stomage of just watching these but still deep inside I really want to go there and experience it myself. ...if my mom would let me, that is.

I know that they've got some similar roads in Spain but I can't remember where so I can't dig up any pictures.