Napster's copy-protection circumvented, gasp, shock, dismay

Users have found a way to skirt copy protection on Napster Inc's portable music subscription service just days after its high-profile launch, potentially letting them make CDs with hundreds of thousands of songs for free.

Such users are already providing instructions to other would-be song burners through technology websites like BoingBoing.

Napster is currently offering a free trial of its new Napster To Go service, which will enable users for a monthly $US15 ($NZ21.21) fee to download as much music as they want and transfer it to a portable device. They can also pay 99 cents for each track they want to burn to a CD.

Full details here. Of course, that would also mean using Napster, which I'm not prepared to advocate. But this at least instills the original Napster spirit, don't'cha think?

Sawyer, Sawyer, Locke: greatest thing ever

From a f-locked entry on beeform's journal (copy/pasted because this needs to be seen by all)....

Hee! Someone posted this in the comments on cleolinda's pre-Lost recap post:

Sawyer, Sawyer, Locke which is a parody of Llama, llama, duck.

I'm deeply amused.

Also: Hugh Laurie needs an Emmy nom for this week's House (not that he'll win, but damn, that was cool). And Robert Sean Leonard is beginning to scare me, in a good way. I love this show.