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Ben Adida: "Today, we have the technology to cheaply deliver any piece of music ever recorded to your car, stereo, or portable music player within seconds. Why isn't it happening?" [Scripting News] .< 10:12:41 PM  >BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Bush rejects Saddam link to 9/11 'US President George Bush has said there is no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved in the 11 September attacks. The comments - among his most explicit so far on the issue - come after a recent opinion poll found that nearly 70% of those asked believed the Iraqi leader was personally involved in the attacks. ' Apparently the guy running the country isn't the only moron. .< 8:05:28 PM >"Nobody Died When Clinton Lied" Brilliant. Clinton faces impeachment for a blowjob while Bush is a hero for slaughtering thousands. .< 8:00:43 PM >TCS: Tech Central Station - Blame Canada 'A desperate American recording industry is waging a fierce fight against digital copyright infringement seemingly oblivious to the fact that, for practical purposes, it lost the digital music sharing fight over five years ago. In Canada.' .< 6:39:49 PM >"Joi Ito's Web: Ordering of letters don't matter" Too cool. Check out the example. It's true! .< 6:36:05 PM >Wired News: Apple Unveils New Notebooks 'Analysts expect a big revenue boost when Apple brings the iTunes Music Store to Windows PCs. Part of that would come from the songs it sells for 99 cents each, some 10 cents of which it keeps for itself, according to analysts. The other part would come from the additional portable iPod music players Apple is likely to sell.
Apple generated $111 million in iPod revenue in the last quarter, which ended in June, compared with $22 million a year earlier. It has sold one million of the devices, which can store thousands of songs since the first series was launched 20 months ago, Jobs said. In the last quarter alone, since the music store opened, it sold 304,000 units.' Frank Casanova, Apple’s director of QuickTime product marketing, has criticized Microsoft's move to transform its proprietary Windows Media 9 multimedia software into a standard, telling Macworld UK that "when you are part of a standards organization you don't develop it behind closed doors." [MacCentral] .< 6:13:06 PM >Louisa Young: Alone with the Man in Black Comment: Louisa Young tells how a meeting with Johnny Cash moved her to give up her job and became a novelist. [Guardian Unlimited] '"You like that song?" he says, and he pulls over his guitar.
What, really?
He tunes up. I can't quite believe my fortune here. He starts to play, and he sings that song. In his front room. That pure, deep, thundery, reverberating voice, just across from me on the other sofa.
"All that was part of my childhood," he says, when it's over. Then he tells me about the flood when he was a kid, that leads to Five Feet High and Rising. "You like that song?" Yes I do.
He sings it for me.'
"What else, now," he says. "You like Man in Black, don't ya?" |
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