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AllofMP3.com

I just created an account on AllofMP3.com. I’m wondering why, after hearing about it ages ago, I only signed up now. Was it because of all the buzz surrounding it nowadays (it has been mentioned several times on the more popular tech podcasts out there)? It also seems strange that I should choose to “sign-up” just after the legality of the site has been put into question.

But after I heard that the hosts of Digg actually use the service… I thought “Hey, who cares if it’s legit or not!” Here are high(ish) profile American hosts who openly admit to using the service (among other things) and not getting arrested for it. I guess it wouldn’t hurt to partake of the benefits of using it as well. And to me, until it’s proven beyond any reasonable doubt that it is indeed an illegal operation (and promptly shut down); and as long as it’s not phishing my credit account info, I’m considering it legal no matter what other people say hahaha.

In all honesty, aside from the whole legality issue, I really believe that AllofMP3 has nailed music distribution for consumers perfectly. I’m definitely going to use it – and I’ll tell you why you should use it too.

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FJAX

I guess everyone has heard about AJAX. Well I read an article on Digg about FJAX, which basically is the same thing, but attempts to cut some corners on the code by using Flash’s proven XML handling.

The logic behind it was that AJAX code can easily get bulky if you want to make sure it runs smoothly across different browsers. FJAX “solves” that dilemma [in a sense] by using limiting the JS to only to call on a Flash object and write it’s output on the document (while AJAX relies heavily on the JavaScript to do everything. The whole middle process of pulling, parsing, etc. is done via Flash – with few lines of code that is native ActionScript.

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South Park composite sketches

Just thought I’d share this. I saw an episode in South Park showing a sketch of what the four boys would probably look like in real life (and not to mention that the characters thought they were bad drawings hehehehe.

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Oh and so not to waste postage “space,” lemme include their response to the Church of Scientology after successfully preventing a repeat of episode 12 of season 9:

“So, Scientology, you may have won this battle, but the million-year war for Earth has just begun! Temporarily anozinizing our episode will not stop us from keeping Thetans forever trapped in your pitiful man-bodies. Curses and drat! You have obstructed us for now, but your feeble bid to save humanity will fail! Hail Xenu!!!”

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My favorite sports ads

I remember when I was working in iAyala, that we used to surf Ad-Critic when it was still free, and one of my favorite ads were Fox Regional Sports wherein the concept was for them to show really absurd “sports” just to prove how far they will go to cover regional sporting events.

I must say I loved them.

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Pirate POV

I’m we all know how thepiratebay was raided a while back (and has since gone back up). But this particular incident really got the whole P2P community up and arms and hopefully would do some serious damage to those “legal” entities that try to bully those who support P2P.

Anyways, I’m commenting on the speech of Rickard Falkvinge, the “leader” of the Swedish Pirate Party during the Pirate Bay support demonstration.

The translation of the speech is found here

I’d really urge everyone to read it as it was a very enlightening read to how “pirates” minds work.

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