Month: April 2003

Peep Research – Staley Library, Millikin University, Decatur, IL
Finally, someone does research on Peeps that doesn’t involve a microwave.
This is far too cute; I chuckled nearly the full way through.

So Apple’s done a zillion announcements today; the one that hits me the most obviously is the iTunes 4 one.
Rendezvous sharing is very cool, but in fact, Apple will allow you to share with anyone, so long as you have the IP.
Just go under Advanced, hit “Connect to Shared Music”, punch in the IP, type in a password if the user has one set up, and it’s just like they’re on your LAN.
It’s streaming only, but it’s very good streaming. Even album art comes over (which I’m furiously tagging my MP3s with). I only had to rebuffer twice playing the Beatles’ “And I Love Her” from a friend in California.
Edit: Apparently the friend who said the album art came over was on crack. Oh well.
Nicely done, Apple.

On Saturday this week, the world will celebrate the 25th anniversary of spam, as the first unsolicited commercial message was sent on ARPANET on May 3rd, 1978.
Those look to celebrate in geeky ways can check out the etymology of the term or, for the truly geeky, read initial reactions, including a young Richard Stallman saying he would be in favor of spam.
(Thanks to Brad Templeton for all the great data.)