We're living in the 70s

I seriously did not just see an ad for the “Nick & Jessica Variety Hour on ABC,” did I?

Holy, shit, I did.

America’s favorite young married couple, Nick Lachey & Jessica Simpson, multi-platinum artists known from their hit MTV series, Newlyweds, star in their first-ever television special, featuring a fun-filled variety hour of music and comedy.

This surely is the final sign of the apocolypse.

Playfair

Sick of the hassle of only being able to play your Protected-AAC files you purchased from the iTMS on YOUR 3 computers? Want to share those files with your friends?

Looks like you need Playfair, the FairPlay DRM stripper.The playfair program is quite simple. It takes one of the iTMS Protected AAC Audio Files, decodes it using a key obtained from your iPod or Microsoft Windows system and then writes the new, decoded version to disk as a regular AAC Audio File. It then optionally copies the metadata tags that describe the song, including the cover art, to the new file.

I'm sure there's a lesson in here somewhere…

If Tai ever asks you which databases he can drop from his MySQL server, don’t tell him he can remove the one that contains your weblog and descriptions of pictures of your kids. Because if you were to do that, you’d end up losing that data. Just a heads-up.