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Eric Clapton is all thumbs after all:

Stevie Ray Vaughan, not as good as you thought:

Tired of fighting with browsers on CSS issues regarding layouts, styling of buttons, or generating print versions? Then you’d probably be interested in the Blueprint CSS Framework which I discovered via Mark Boulton. It’s getting great reviews, looks to have a lot of promise… and by a fellow Norwegian to top it off. Check the tutorial for a good introduction.

In early May 2007 something amazing happened. Hollywood’s most guarded secret, the key to decrypt HD-DVDs, was found and released on the Internet, via the site digg.com. At first Kevin Rose, the Digg founder, felt pressured by Hollywood lawyers to take down the key, but this made Digg users go completely ballistic, and in the end Kevin posted the code himself saying something to the sort of “this may be the end for us, but at least we went down fighting” (see original post). The key in hex, in case you wonder, is:

09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0

Even the iphone didn’t generate this much attention, the blogsphere was flooded with reactions from the two factions: “digg surrenders to mob” and “the truth will not be silenced”. I’m afraid I, with most techies and new media people, belong with the last group that thinks DRM is the Next Big Evil.

People went out of their way to spread the code, to the point of creating songs. The first song wasn’t really that good, but then Geoff Smith created a song called “Digg the Code” that Cali Lewis of the GeekBrief.tv podcast put video on…. What can I say, it’s awesome:

There are currently more occurences of this “secret code” on the net than there are HD-DVD players in the world.

This is just awesomely creative:

I September blir det 10 år siden jeg satte beina i Beijing, Kina. Det har skjedd så mye her sammenlignet med hjemme i Norge at det føles nesten som 50 år har gått forbi. Interessen for å komme hit har også vokst mye, og jeg får en del forespørsler fra andre som vil komme hit, så jeg tenkte å lage en liten side angående emnet.

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