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I love the build names for Ubuntu Linux: "Breezy Badger", "Dapper Drake". Are they all alliteral? [Via Paul.]

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Though I don't do nearly enough of either, I love hiking and camping, and could see myself as a flashpacker.

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Stephen H. Wildstrom has the latest idiotic move by the recording industry, which is suing XM Satellite Radio over its Inno portable receiver/recorder. Even though there's no way to get the XM-specific music files off the Inno (yet), and despite the millions and millions of dollars in royalties XM already pays the music industry, the Inno is obviously a threat to the future of music as we know it and it must be stopped. In other news, consumers welcomed more artists as the latter left the major music labels...

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Entrepreneurs should check out the WSJ's StartupJournal.