Looks like the National Federation for the Blind can drop their lawsuit now. The new Kindle offers voice prompts to read the menu items to you. I hope they now sue the publishers that are having Amazon remove the text to speech options for certain books because they think you need to buy a CD if you want to have a book read aloud.

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According to this article from the NY Times, a recent court ruling says that it is legal to decrypt DVD’s in order to use their content for educational uses.  It also says that it is legal to jail break your iPhone in order to install software outside of the Apple store.

Dear Sony: When my three year old daughter and I sit down to watch a documentary about fish, your Bluray player shouldn’t force us to watch movie trailers of scary things she doesn’t need to see. I paid for the movie. I paid for the player. Why won’t you let me decide what I should watch?

If you are looking for good example application on the Blackberry, checkout the WordPress Blackberry app. It is open source so you can easily get the code and it does everything from resizing images to keeping an offline synced copy of data to making server connections and accessing the GPS.

When Katy was two we were watching a Planet Earth DVD where a white wolf catches a terrified Caribou calf. When the wolf caught the baby reindeer we were concerned about what Katy would think. Turns out she wasn’t worried about the deer. She was sitting there cheering for the wolf!

Some phrases I like:

• Constructive Sarcasm
• Intercontinental Trebuchet

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A friend posted this on Facebook:

[Name] does not like shots but she does like the nice ladies who give the shots and take care of you when react to them.

I thought she was talking about alcohol and didn’t realize my error until I read the other comments.I thought the “nice ladies” were the bartenders.

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It turns out that giving kids computers can make them to worse in school instead of better.  This effect is particularly noticeable in low income families. Computers don’t have any type of intrinsic educational value.  In families where computer use is not monitored and guided, a home PC and Internet access appears to cause lower test scores.

Google Analytics is very useful, but it doesn’t have the ability to show you the exact referrer visitors are coming from.  The downside of this is that sometimes you can get a huge influx of traffic from a large site like Yahoo and still have no idea where the traffic is coming from.  Because of this it is recommended that you have some other type of logging enabled.  At the minimum, access to raw log files will let you go in and see the specific page that is sending you traffic.

The artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince says the Internet is dead.  So he is distributing physical CDs by letting a British newspaper send them along their papers for one day. His reasoning?  Digital technology fills your head with numbers so it can’t be good for you.  I’m not sure he understands how CDs actually work…