FRIDAY NIGHT GAME 5 VIEWING PARTY AT THE SOMMET CENTER
STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS—PREDATORS VS. RED WINGS

The Preds-Red Wings game will be shown this Friday night on Nashville's largest indoor screen -- the Megatron -- at the Sommet Center. Doors open at 6pm, televised game starts at 6:30pm.

* FREE admission!
* Gnash and the Predators Dancers will be there.
* Concession stands will be open with specially-priced food.
* Special $5 parking rate at the South Lot - just behind the Sommet Center
* Contests and activities at intermissions.
* Inflatable games for the kids.

See you there! GO PREDS!!!

Nashville Predators

Lightning 100's Team Green is once again the sponsor and organizer of the seventh annual Nashville Earth Day Festival at Centennial Park! This year's theme is Local Living for Global Change - It All Starts with ME! We will have interactive entertainment, live music, healthy food, and over 100 environmental organizations. Music from Raul Malo, Jen Foster, Sam & Ruby, JYPSI and more. For more details on Earth Day.

Nashville's Earth Day Festival

Elvis Costello & The Imposters
Apr 23, 2008 7:30 pm (Wednesday)
Ryman Auditorium
116 Fifth Avenue N
Nashville, Tennessee 37219

Elvis Costello & The Imposters @ Ryman Auditorium

It all began 30 years ago, Ben & Jerry scooped up free ice cream all day to thank the community for supporting them in their first year. Now it's an annual tradition at many of our scoop shops around the world.

Apr. 29th 12pm-8pm is Free Cone Day @ B&J...

FYI If your in Nashville for sure!

Free Cone Day

Clifford Stoll could talk about the atmosphere of Jupiter. Or hunting KGB hackers. Or Klein bottles, computers in classrooms, the future. But he's not going to. Which is fine, because it would be criminal to confine a man with interests as multifarious as Stoll's to give a talk on any one topic. Instead, he simply captivates his audience with a wildly energetic sprinkling of anecdotes, observations, asides -- and even a science experiment. After all, by his own definition, he's a scientist: "Once I do something, I want to do something else."

Sci/Tech Heads need to watch this... It fun and a great video!

Why are we not teaching science like this? I want to sit in on his class!

Clifford Stoll: 18 minutes with an agile mind (video)

We love anything that's dead simple. And you can't get anymore simple than Muxtape. The online service does one thing — let you create and share mixtape-like MP3 playlists with friends. With a 15-second signup, 1-click uploading and playback, and beautifully minimal playlist pages, Muxtape is our new music-savvy friend.

unmanaged.muxtape.com

It's fairly clear that we won't be happy until we've slathered every nook and cranny of the Internet in some kind of advertising. Not only have ISPs started bombarding users via DNS redirection ads, but Slashdot notes that Network Solutions has started putting ads on neglected user subdomains (or a path that does not resolve to a currently active page on your hosted site).

From The Register:
Earlier this week, a man named Win Betteridge told TechCrunch that Network Solutions pulled this clever little trick with his "social gaming" site, GotGame.com. Betteridge hosts GotGame with "NetSol," and somewhere along the way, he realized that his unused GotGame sub-domains resolved to ad-infested "parking" pages. "For instance, app.gotgame.com resolves to a Network Solutions page with text links, including 'Poker Tournaments' and 'Texas Holdem Games,'" he said.

What, you didn't notice you agreed to this in the 59,000 word Network Solutions user agreement?

From the company that brought you front running of domain registrations....

who the hell is the user Vile? He/she/it is very annoying....
and not really contributing anything more that being a scant turd...

"Speculation is mounting that Google is plotting the launch of a mobile phone in partnership with computer giant Dell.

"Senior industry sources claim the two companies will reveal their plans at next month's 3GSM telecoms conference in Barcelona, although Google insiders deny an announcement is due in the near future..."

Google and Dell Tipped to Reveal iPhone Rival Plans

Austin, Texas--VIA Technologies, although very popular with Linux ultramobile PC vendors, has never been very open about its own hardware. Until April 8, when, at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit at the University of Texas Super Computing Center here, the company announced that it will start opening up its chip sets to the open-source community.

During the We're Shipping Linux on PCs -- Now What? panel, Timothy Chen of VIA Technologies, said, "VIA hadn't been doing much [in opening up] … it's been hard for the company to embrace open source, but at the end of the month you'll see us opening up."

This announcement drew a round of applause from the audience of Linux executives, leaders and core developers. Driver support for Linux distributions, a nagging problem, can be greatly eased by chip and component vendors opening up their hardware specifications and information.

In concrete terms, VIA will kick things off by launching its VIA Linux Web site by the end of month. On this site, users will find drivers, technical documentation, source code and information for the VIA CN700, CX700/M, CN896 and the new VIA VX800 chip sets. As time goes by, VIA will add forums and support for more of its chip sets.

VIA hopes that by doing this and working with the community, it will be able to create drivers for VIA Processor Platforms that will enable top-notch 2-D, 3-D and video playback. The company will also start issuing regular quarterly releases, which will be in conjunction with kernel changes and major Linux distribution releases. In addition, beta releases will be issued on the site as needed, and a bug report and tracking feature will also be integrated.

"This announcement is the first step in the implementation of our new initiative to better serve the needs of the open-source community," said Richard Brown, vice president of corporate marketing at VIA, in a statement. "We are strongly committed to improving the levels of collaboration with the community and adopting a more consistent approach across VIA Processor Platform technologies."

How sure is Chen that VIA and the Linux desktop are going to take off? During the panel, Chen said that he's made a bet and that "if Linux doesn't take 10 percent of the desktop market share in five years I'll be running the streets of Munich naked."

VIA to open up its devices...