Via brad, a link to Steve Jobs's thoughts on music. More specifically, it's his thoughts on DRM, how the record companies are confused about technologies, and how Apple doesn't have as vested an interest in DRM as one might immediately think. Worth a read, even if it does have a bit of Steve's reality distortion field surrounding it ( Read more... )

A coworker of mine just pointed me to the following two videos on Youtube. If you are a computer geek at all, you need to see these videos. If you're a techno fan, you need to see these videos. They are ... kind of phenomenal Euro-techno-geekcore:

• DotA, and
• Boten Anna

The group (or should I say, guy) is called Basshunter, and by God, I am in awe. ( Read more... )

A few years ago, when I was still working for Akamai, I would often watch cable late into the night on the weekends. I worked midnight to 8am during the week, and there was only so much you could do to reset your sleep schedule for the two days you had off. Likewise, there wasn't much to do at 3am on a Saturday when your friends were mostly ( Read more... )

1) Random up your music and get 17 tracks with lyrics ( Read more... )

Not only are the political prospects of the country looking mildly positive, including Hastert stepping down from the GOP leadership since my last post, but it would appear that the major power outage that we haven't really been preparing for appropriately at work has been pushed back from next week to the week after Thanksgiving ( Read more... )

Damn, but this is an addictive game. I've just an hour or so ago won it on Medium, and I'm now five songs into Hard. "Bark at the Moon" can bite me, however, even on Medium.

If anyone out there hasn't played the game, run from it. Seriously. It'll eat your life. It's that good.

Being a brief collection of interesting links:

• True Porn Clerk Stories: an oldie but a goodie. alidavis, an improv comedienne / actor moved to LA in the last few years, but around 2000 / 2001, she was a video clerk in Chicago, and she chronicles her adventures in addictive and provocative detail. Set aside a couple hours for this.
• Emergency Kindness: an ( Read more... )

So, for those who aren't aware, I drive an hour each way to and from work each workday. This means that I spend about two hours in the car, Monday through Friday. Ten hours per week. That's a fair amount of time, particularly in an area with no kickass radio stations. As a consequence, I have grown to consider my iPod to be indispensable. I've ( Read more... )

I've been remiss in being entertaining and interesting here. A few mentions:

• swan_tower's novel is starting to appear in stores across the country. Go find one, tell her, and cause her to hide under the bed again.
• In the SpecFic world, the last week or so has been a sad one:
  • Jane Yolen's husband David Stemple passed away; her thoughts;
  • Robert Jordan was ( Read more... )

Two things to entertain people (one of which I may have posted before):

• An awesome Flash page which you can use to duplicate the audio from almost any Super Mario game from the original Nintendo
• A video of a guy (the "Video Game Pianist") playing most of those old songs on the piano

Enjoy!