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A class action lawsuit entitled Chavez v. Netflix, Inc. was filed in San Francisco Superior Court (case number CGC-04-434884) on September 23, 2004. The lawsuit alleges that Netflix failed to provide “unlimited” DVD rentals and “one day delivery” as promised in its marketing materials. Netflix has denied any wrongdoing or liability. The parties have reached a settlement that they believe is in the best interests of the company and its subscribers. Netflix will provide eligible subscribers with the benefit described…

You read these two sentences on Slashdot and laugh out loud: “A study commisioned by Congress in 1998 to report on internet traffic has finally been published — 7 years, two presidents, and one internet boom/bust later. Some of their findings include “DNS is good” and “We should probably have some more TLDs”

Reuters: Thu Feb 24, 2005 01:54 PM ET By Thomas Atkins GENEVA (Reuters) – The “digital divide” between rich and poor nations is narrowing fast, the World Bank said on Thursday, calling into question a costly United Nations campaign to bring hi-tech telecommunications to the developing world. As some 1,700 international experts gathered in Geneva to prepare for the U.N.’s World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), the World Bank said in a report that telecommunications services to poor countries…

I generally like Penenberg’s stuff, but the premise of his newest piece just really threw me. His latest column on Wired News profiles Mary Hodder, someone who I met at Berkeley, actually in one of my classes at the j-school last year. She runs her own blog and is an Ÿber-connected mega-geek with all the blogosphere’s head honchos. Ok, cool. So ok, she doesn’t print things (neither do I, unless I have to — like Chinatown bus tickets). And I…

So, HungryPod is still fairly unknown as of the time of the printing of my NYT article. So I’m going to do a little experiment on the effects of an NYT article on things like Google and Feedster hits. As of now, a little after 9 pm [Pacific], Dec. 1, HungryPod gets three hits on Google and zero hits on Feedster. Let’s see what happens in the next 48 hrs.

BB says Howto: make a free TiVo-oid BitTorrent service And courtesy Rachel Balsham (she told me about it), here’s a cool app for getting music off of people’s shared iTunes. (Mac OS X only)

Email me if you want one.

Ok, so I’m reading this NYT article about Christian hipster t-shirts and what not. “I travel to all the festivals, dozens of them, all summer long, then I do smaller events in California during winter,” Mr. Lula said, standing over T-shirts that read, “Hardcore Christian,” “Hetero-Boy” and “Religion Is Dead. Jesus Is Not.” He said he was not simply selling concert souvenirs. “I feel I’m getting the word of God out,” he said. . . . T-shirts screamed or punned…

I just got the following spam: Subject: Re: Agreement From: “Schulz” Date: Wed, June 30, 2004 7:18 pm fhcfg. lpqjdqykv nttwyly sdmseyomd tkhnvud xbveiscb ufaez dtwlwhs xmidtzne jkpss- zxvort cdbvfs uxouxeba ycujpt exysmyv gppsxswh pdpimpfi xclxzgh, zqufbdcj usbcbxrc phywogc imuyquaui cooltamq dlwtdpdns khbuw memdlfycz cmbcajsz, vcfnj hxrbeokgb soheu bplldtbne mhhlc louecryz byjezf mzdartc mfsbrcfit hlxirtgni zkwbfhv, vaerhcnea ybdhse izuvplujd uuohuw- drenkxqnl cicrzyfx. kdffzj. vgxbi omsalzi, nlkrn jfojzd iubova- eihkqumbf ubvgh qpxcig oveps gucmkp vvlogu qfmbkdtc- mpxelafu kcrigdmpk

Considering that I stole your thunder last time, Rachel, I’ll wait until later — but I will say that we’re all proud of you! Also, anyone want a free subscription to Wired?