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Apple Launches iTunes Music Store in Japan

Apple today launched its revolutionary iTunes Music Store in Japan, giving music fans the same innovativea features, breakthrough pricing, seamless integration with iPod and groundbreaking personal use rights that have made iTunes the number one online music service in the world. With one million songs priced at just ¥150 and ¥200 per song...

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The Truth About Violent Youth and Video Games

There is no epidemic of youth violence in America. The whole concept is a lie manufactured, distributed and perpetuated by the media. Kids are not killing each other more frequently than they used to. In fact, it turns out the opposite is true.

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Episode 1

Shownotes: -About the podcast -Review on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory -Review of Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince Download

Podcasting

Well, I've been planing to do a Some-what Random Stuff podcast for a while now, but I have been procrastinating for a while. But now I'm finally commitment to it. So in the next week or so there should be the first Some-what Random Stuff podcast. Today though I'm going to name the podcasts I'm listening to. *This Week in Tech (TWiT) -Your first podcast of the week is the last word in tech. Join Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, Kevin Rose, and other tech luminaries in a roundtable discussion of the latest trends in digital technology. Released every Sunday at midnight Pacific. *Theforce.net -If you are a Star Wars fan you should listen to this podcast *Earthcore -The first podcast only novel *Slacker Astronomy -Two gen-x professional astronomers and a radio dude team up to tackle a weekly news event in the world of astronomy. They use plenty of dry humor and schtick but respect the intelligence of the audience. Think Dr. Who combined with Carl Sagan and Car Talk. Hosted by Pamela Gay and Travis Searle. *Daily Source Code -Adam Curry's audio blog

Favorite Firefox Extensions

The dreaded favorite Firefox extension post. I think that every blog does this post once so I'll get it over with. (in no particular order) 1. Adblock- I think that the title says it all, it blocks ads and other pictures 2. Greasemonkey- Changes how webpages are seen 3. Bugmenot- Used to bypass the login of websites< 4. Sage- A simple RSS/Atom reader that is inside the sidebar 5. Spellbound- Use spellcheck to check your spelling in any form.

Firefox Wins PC World's Product of the Year Award

Mozilla Firefox is definitely an award winning product. Firefox received c|Net's Editor's Choice Award. It also received PC Magazine's Editor's Choice Award.

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The Other Side of BitTorrent

As Hollywood ramps up its fight against the film-swapping kingpin, some in the industry find a silver lining.

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Wide Screen Wallpapers

If you have a widescreen monitor like me this site will help. A bunch of widescreen wallpapers since they are some-what hard to find.

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Systm

The very first Systm episode is out. Go check it out. Just encase the site goes down again here are the torrent links: Large Format: Xvid Windows Media Theora h.264 quicktime 7 (Mac Only) Small Format: Xvid Windows Media Theora PSP h.264 quicktime 7 (Mac Only)