Now you too can own your very own can of Pimp Juice.

On Saturday night I had dinner with Dave Winer, Robert Scoble and his family, Jake Savin, Brad Neuberg, Don Park, Steve Gillmor, Phil Wolff, Cheyenne, Pat Delaney, Bryan Bell, and a few other names I cannot remember. If I left you out leave a comment and I will edit you in. Brad is working on some really cool JXTA project named Paper Airplane which he plans to release into beta this week. Steve Gillmor is a little too RSS crazy and would like to do away with all e-mail and instead turn to RSS. I argued that his gripes with e-mail are a result of largely unneeded features and if he really wanted security he could use Pine with no problems and have a lot of the RSS features without the security issues. Bryan and I discussed the applications of community based blogging versus everyone on their own. Userland is pretty open to new feature suggestions and implementations. After dinner we went over to Gretchen Pirillo‘s house cooling party. The Pirillo’s are leaving a pretty sweet apartment in the Castro behind to move down to Woodland Hills. I had heard that Gretchen is a good cook and the rumors are definitely true! They practice technology impartiality with both a Xbox and a GameCube, Palm and Pocket PC, Mac and Windows. Tantek brought some great magnets depicting Sprocket‘s well known habit.

NY Times reports that Ticketmaster will now start scalping tickets. “Ticketmaster will be able to compete with brokers and scalpers for the highest price a market will bear.”

Tommy Nelson has a brand new version of The New Testament geared towards teenage girls: Revolve. ABC News has a pretty comprehensive review. As a child I had a version of the Bible (old and new testaments) rewritten to appear as a comic. If I had been given a King James version it would have never been read. So I think different inroads for the same content is a good thing. In case you are wondering…I was raised Irish Catholic but I am currently consider myself agnostic and in defiance of any dogma. The last service I attended was Zen Buddhist at the Green Gulch Center.

Marshall Brain has a long but interesting article about what might happen when robotics and automation become as cheap as computers did in the late 1990s.

The Computer History Museum is hosting an event to celebrate Apple Computer’s historical contribution to the computer industry. The event is named AppleLore.

MIT’s Technology review profiles some interesting location based devices and their use.

MSNBC has a series of articles on “punching the clock in the new economy.” Especially interesting to me is Tethered by a high-tech leash. “[P]eople with Web access at home log in and work an extra 5.9 hours per week on average.” What causes someone to stay constantly connected? Fear of losing their job? A hope that doing so might single them out as an exceptional employee and get them the bonus, raise, promotion they desire?

I would love to go to the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. I downloaded most of the audience videos I could find last year and read the write-ups of the speeches. Now to actually place myself in the room and have some great ideas. Call for Participation proposals are due September 24. I will aim towards social software and see where it leads.

Did Blaster Cause the Blackout? “there is a very good plausibility that the recent East Coast power outage was due to an attack by an MSBlaster variant on the SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) system at the power plant master terminal, or more likely at several of the remote terminal units (RTUs). SCADA runs under Win2000 / XP and the telemetry to the RTU is accessible via the Internet.”