I don't believe in this Yogic technique you mentioned. Apart from magnetic/laser levitation, the only one other experiment I know to ever obtain success in this area involved a buttered toast attached to a cat.

Cool card, though.

Thanks, Xeni. I got it from here before, but I can see it listed correctly on the feed now. Oh sweet evil technology!

JSZ @15,16: we heart Xeni; Xeni hearts Byrne; thus: we heart Byrne. It makes total mathemagical sense, my friend.

Guys, just so you know...

I get my fix of boingboing tv via the mp4 feed (the same one used in iTunes, so it auto-synchs to an iPod), and this entry today came off as a flash (.swf) file over there, and it borked the whole podcast automatic delivery magic.

Never had any boingboing tv downloaded as a flash file before. Perhaps something enclosed the wrong file in the feed?

#16, you got it all wrong. You should get informed.

All of AmazonMP3's catalog (and now also Napster's) is comprised of DRM-free MP3s, and while it's not as big a catalog as iTunes' whole, both are vastly larger than iTunes' DRM-free selection. iTunes only has EMI tracks on their "plus" DRM-free offering. AmazonMP3 has titles from all four majors, for instance:

http://tinyurl.com/4a4a8k (Columbia/Sony)
http://tinyurl.com/4v49lj (Sire/Warner)
http://tinyurl.com/3pb8va (Roc-a-Fella/Universal)
http://tinyurl.com/5lqtdq (Jagjagwar/Indie)
http://tinyurl.com/63jhud (and of course EMI)

I picked those at random, but as an exercise, see if any of the first four are available DRM-free on iTunes. Even the indie record. Despite having unparalleled market weight, and despite Jobs's "letter" which some seem to have taken to heart, Apple hasn't done anything concrete to get rid of DRM or at least now widen their DRM-free selection. Why would they? DRM is good for Apple. DRM act as the walls of the iPod ecosystem locked-in garden.

Bugs,

Try bleep.com or emusic.com

I've lately fell in love with the Gentium project.

http://scripts.sil.org/Gentium

It's a very lovely typeface and a superb idea.

It's going to be more than the USA, but it's hardly going to be "global" as the headline says. They announced an "international" roll out, and if I was a betting sort I'd put my chips on this being: China, Canada, Germany, France and the UK (places where Amazon already has established local stores).

They should make their service more like bleep.com, which does sell DRM-free MP3 and flac globally (albeit with a few catalogue restrictions). In the unlikely case that Amazon goes really global, I for one welcome our new MP3 overlords.