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Dear Readers and Friends, things are going great with the site and we thank each and every one of you for your support. We are very excited about our nomination for our Best Weblog About Music nomination for the 2003 Weblog Awards – if you feel so inclined, go vote. …

Any ordered sequence can be treated as music – note this story about a Terry Riley composition based upon plasma waves from space. Now Spanish scientists have treated the human genome as a musical sequence: Unravel DNA’s double helix, picture its components lined up like piano keys and assign a …

In an important DMCA case, Verizon must turn over the identity of a customer the RIAA accusses of extensively using the Kazaa file trading service: The RIAA could only identify the user by a numeric Internet address on Verizon’s network, and served Verizon with a subpoena demanding the user’s identity …

Speaking of fjord-hoppers, this woman took the rack and ran: “It is crystal clear that she has tried to avoid paying for her breasts,” said Jennifer McShane of Sweden’s Channel 5 to newspaper Expressen. The first episode of the series produced by Strix offers the story of a 28-year-old Norwegian …

The Norwegian authorities say they will appeal the acquittal of “DVD Jon” on charges of copyright violation reports Aftenposten: Norway’s special division for economic crimes, Økokrim, says that they will appeal the acquittal of 19-year-old Jon Lech Johansen, accused of illegally developing a protection code-breaking program, but did not give …

I don’t think there are enough awards shows, do you? Here is a new one, the NightLife Awards, honoring “the best of New York City cabaret, comedy and jazz,” live at the Town Hall January 27. The NightLife Awards winners have been chosen from artists working in New York City …

mi2g Intelligence Unit reports: major hacker groups active in 2002 shows the top ten hot beds originating hacker attack to be Brazil, Egypt, Morocco, Pakistan, Italy, UK, Indonesia, Turkey, Libya and USA. Attacks on the West show a spurt of growth mainly coming from radical groups and individuals based in …

Profile of Sony in Newsweek: Sony, home of transistor radios, Trinitron, Walkman, Betamax, Bruce Springsteen, Spider-Man and Gran Turismo, now wants to be known as the home of connected entertainment in the digital age. CEO Nobuyuki Idei understands that the Net and the chip have exploded Morita and Ibuka’s world. …

And you thought windows were for looking THROUGH: Windows that double as television screens, computer monitors or stereo systems are being unveiled today, on the first day of the International Builders’ Show in Las Vegas, by Andersen Corp., the country’s largest window manufacturer. The new windows are the latest advance …

Cynthia Webb reports in the Washington Post on the LinuxWorld conference (I’ll bet Doc is there): On the heels of Macworld and the Consumer Electronics Show comes the LinuxWorld conference, which starts today in New York, a major networking event for the open-source software movement. IBM’s big investment in Linux …