Noteworthy

A collection of stuff that I find helpful, interesting, significant, or unusual. Get the RSS feed.

• Nothing like a little schadenfreude to close out the year. Beginning after midnight Tuesday, owners of the 30GB Zune found their devices inexplicably frozen in the kind of worldwide, near-simultaneous fail that could only be orchestrated by a company like Microsoft. Here’s the official fix, which requires you to sit tight until after noon GMT on January 1.

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