AOL Eavesdrops

AOL has some new “Terms of Service” for those who use their AOL Instant Messaging servers, and it’s pretty crazy:

Although you or the owner of the Content retain ownership of all right, title and interest in Content that you post to any AIM Product, AOL owns all right, title and interest in any compilation, collective work or other derivative work created by AOL using or incorporating this Content. In addition, by posting Content on an AIM Product, you grant AOL, its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, assigns, agents and licensees the irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide right to reproduce, display, perform, distribute, adapt and promote this Content in any medium. You waive any right to privacy. You waive any right to inspect or approve uses of the Content or to be compensated for any such uses.

maybe its time to start using some encryption add-on tools

Source: http://www.benstanfield.com/thrash/2005/03/aol_eavesdrops_.html

More Jazz Fun

Adam Dorn (son of fabled jazz producer Joel Dorn) is dj mocean worker (aka mowo). His tight mixes and eclectic influences keep his music one step above. Not to mention, he has funny videos. Take a look at the video for his mix for Chick a Boom Boom Boom here: Chick A Boom Boom Boom

Don’t Feel Well

I’m not feeling too well today. I feel like I have to throw up, but I’m making it to all my classes and work. Not only that, but then I’ll be going to the library to do some more research for my 20 page paper on Def Jam. I spent 2 hours yesterday looking at microfiche of Billboard from 1986 just to see when The Beastie Boys’ Licensed to Ill hit the charts and what it debuted at. Since this was such an independant release at the time, the only thing I could find as far as a release date was the year of 1986. Of course, it turned out to be released in November, so there was a lot of searching before of previous months before I struck gold. Now at least I know the few months of 1986-1987 to look for them in Rolling Stone. By the way, microfiche sucks. Microfilm is the way to go.

Oh, and by the way, how much ass does Google Scholar kick?

Google Desktop Search 1.0

Google Desktop 1.0 launched today. The beta version has been out for a while. The new official release version brings increased searching ability. Now it searches in text pdfs, mp3 files, and more.

I did a simple search for Paul Barman (as in MC Paul Barman) and the results came up. What’s cool is you just click the mp3 file you want that came up, and it opens in your default media player. This is a lot quicker than the windows search function. Thumbs up to Google for another great service. (click picture for large screenshot of search results)

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Giant Steps

Giant Steps

What do you get when you mix Jazz music and really cool flash animation?

Answer: Giant Steps