Radioactivity.

[reddragdiva]

• New download service: We7. Nice selection of free stuff, notably including such as this, this and this. Lots of unsigned rubbish too for the adventurous. I'm a fan already. Oh no I'm not. THE MP3s HAVE ADS ON THEM. What an interesting business model.

• Groklaw report on the OLPC XO laptop. WANT.

I am not going out tonight. I am ill, coughing up slime and feel like p00. redcountess and mirrorshard are still hitting the Pembury this evening, so be sure to give them lots of huge sloppy midnight snogs for me.

Comments

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

"Nobody needs a hard drive any more," the young guy said. And you know what? It's true.

Both of those people live where bandwidth is free, fast, and ubiquitous, and they never travel. I would like to live there and never travel too.

[reddragdiva]

It's a response to it not being a "real PC." That's not what the XO is for.

[xlerb.livejournal.com]

Well, yes: what the XO is for is going to places where, by and large, bndwdth is none of free, fast, or ubiquitous, AIUI. The “omg lol n00b use google apps” crowd are thus several kinds of Doing It Wrong.

[secretlondon.livejournal.com]

Well it has flash instead, it's not just a network terminal..

Already in the Pembury

[pndc.livejournal.com]

Bah. Now I have to try and work out what redcountess and/or mirrorshard look like...

Right now I have the 7% Mammon for company, so it may be a short evening. Oops.

Re: Already in the Pembury

[reddragdiva]

Oops! This is Liz and Sam! And some goth tart.

I'm at home eating alcohol-soaked Christmas cake and listening to geek podcasts. Amazingly effective for sending one to sleep.

Re: Already in the Pembury

[redcountess]

You look like your icon :)

Re: Already in the Pembury

[pndc.livejournal.com]

Not quite. You didn't get a shameless display of my legs in the Pembury :p

[kekhmet.livejournal.com]

Groklaw report on the OLPC XO laptop. WANT.

HAVE hehehehe

We7

[(Anonymous)]

But you can remove the ad after 4 weeks and still keep the track which is DRM free and so can be shared and downloaded to any MP3 legally and without restrictions. We7 also give you credits to download tracks without the ads on as well.

Re: We7

[reddragdiva]

True. (In fact, one could edit the mp3 directly.) Feels like cheating, though. Also work.

I'm not saying it's a bad business model - but speaking as the product (the advertisers are the customer, I'm the product, the mp3s are bait) it just seemed way too jarring.