Here is a sample of the thoughts of a typical person entering a casino:

“Even though I know that the vast majority of people who go to casinos obviously lose money, otherwise they would close, I am smarter than everyone else and will somehow manage to gain financially.”

I, on the other hand, actually am smarter than everybody else. On my last trip to Halifax, I went in with $10 and came out with $16.50. Hello free Combo #4 at Wendy’s! What’s that? Biggie size it? Why not! It’s free!

Bottom line is: Casinos are sad.

CEO Hank Barry said Tuesday that the 38 million Napster users will soon have to pay “monthly dues” of, perhaps, $4.95 to access each other’s hard drives; it is the result of a deal Napster reached with one of five record companies suing it for copyright infringement.

Now they want to charge us to access eachothers hard drives? Thank you for the offer, records execs.

Speaking of execs, check out the encouraging photos of the geniuses planning the future of telecommunications in Atlantic Canada. Ask your kids about the “Internet” boys.

more radiohead blips. bigger radiohead blips.

we missed you.

From Cnet’s News.com:

Lexmark to cut 900 jobs, find cheaper labor abroad
Lexmark International, the second-biggest maker of inkjet and laser printers, will cut 900 jobs and move some manufacturing to Mexico and China to reduce costs.

The announcement sent the company’s stock up Monday. At midday, Lexmark shares were up $4.50, or 15 percent, to $34.

This could be straight from The Onion. Move the jobs to areas with less regulation and labour laws and the stock shoots up.

Couldn’t they at least try to be a little more inconspicuous? I shudder.

Matthew:
Sadly, shifting your employees to a lesser regulated country is fairly inconspicuous. If Lexmark really wanted to see it’s share price skyrocket, it would have simply cut the staff and not re-hired.

to hyphen or not to hyphen? the debate rages on, but at Wired News they claim it’s just A Matter of (Wired News) Style.

For those regular readers of Wired News, set your bookmarks to the following URL instead of http://www.wired.com to avoid the banner ad on the front page and in concert with Microsoft’s autocomplete feature, it only takes a few extra keystrokes.

http://www.wired.com/news/nc_index.html

sloan + thrush hermit + the superfriendz = the flashing lights

Last night at The Barn (UPEI’s infamous bar) matthew@actsofvolition.com and I had the enormous pleasure of seeing Halifax murderock-esque band The Flashing Lights.

The unfortunately small crowd didn’t prevent Matt Guitar Murphy and the band from putting on a monster rock show. Highlights included Matt playing several guitar solos in the audience and a harmonica playing bad-ass who actually smashed a tambourine.