Interesting Comments on the Apple Music Store

April 30, 2003 – 12:00 am

How ‘two phase’ commits of credit card transactions can allow for economically feasible micropayments.
Sniffing packets.
Maybe multiple stores, and distribution of Creative Commons license materials?
Pros and Cons
Summary of DRM restrictions on music from the Store.

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Clutter: a Visual UI to iTunes

April 23, 2003 – 12:00 am

One of the Safari developers put together a visual interface to your iTunes collection called Clutter.
[ from the developer's Live Journal ] The reason I wrote it is that I find that iTunes organizes stuff too neatly. When I buy music on CD, I keep the newish and in-vogue CDs lying around on my desk [...]

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‘I want a name when I lose’

April 17, 2003 – 12:00 am

Dr. Fun’s take on Steely Dan.
Context Warning: Unless you grew up in the 1970’s this may be lost on you.

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The Elements

April 9, 2003 – 12:00 am

[ via the Muted Horn ] On the occasion of the satirst Tom Lehrer’s 75th birthday: The Elements [ Flash ]

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John Prine’s take on Bumper Sticker Patriots

April 7, 2003 – 12:00 am

[ via Steve Perry ] John Prine has the perfect response for bumper sticker patriots.

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Fisking Greenwood

March 18, 2003 – 12:00 am

Oh how did I miss this one? Jim Henley, our Libertarian Mad Genius in DC, does the line by line takedown on that annoying Lee Greenwood song. By the end, Greenwood’s in a Belgian bunker, clinging to a farm subsidy. What brought this about? Last fall’s microburst over Steve Earle’s song about Johnny “Taliban” Walker. [...]

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In which YHOS engages in a healthy Nordic lifestyle

March 7, 2003 – 12:00 am

Fine, you hipsters, go to Austin, take your photo in the mirror of Bruce’s bathroom, have your date hit on by the lead singer of a band that was big in the 1980s.
I’m going skiing. (Cue the yodelling soundtrack occasionally used on Ren and Stimpy)
The folks at the OSCOM sprint in Zurich next week plan [...]

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Grab Your Things, I’ve Come to Take You Clubbing

March 3, 2003 – 12:00 am

Progressive Rock fans across Human Space cower in fear because Erasure has covered Peter Gabriel’s ‘Solsbury Hill’.

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Birth of a Bejing Music Scene

February 13, 2003 – 12:00 am

Fear of a Red Planet: on Cui Jian and the rise of Chinese Rock and Roll. [ samples in Real Player ]

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The Monstah Returns

February 10, 2003 – 12:00 am

Interesting Monstah is back.
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Burning the Man with the Mermen

February 7, 2003 – 12:00 am

Ed-Eye Walters videoed the Burning of the Man in 2002. Then he mixed it to a soundtrack of The Mermen playing Burn. [ QuickTime ]

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Mormons, Lesbians, and Buffy. Oh my.

January 25, 2003 – 12:00 am

[ via Ampersand ] Go read Kip’s wonderful rant covering Mormon propaganda, ads at movie theaters (I’d go up to Portland just to have pizza and beer at the Baghdad), deconstructing faux Russian lesbian girl bands, and pointing out a rather deep inside joke on this season of Buffy.

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The orcs got bass, but we got boom.

December 24, 2002 – 12:00 am

[ via Memepool ] Hey ho! Tom Bombadil’s the shitniz. If Leonard Nimoy can try to sing about Bilbo, then someone can rap about Frodo.
Back in March, I went to a Mermen show at the Great American Music Hall, where a friend described the lead singer of the opening act:
The capering Prairie Prince, the lead [...]

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Joe Strummer dies

December 23, 2002 – 12:00 am

Damn, I’m listening to London Calling right now. Joe Strummer, formerly of The Clash, died last night.

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Superior, it’s said, never gives up its dead.

December 1, 2002 – 12:00 am

[ via Medley ] Nigel Campbell remembers the Edmund Fitzgerald, a Great Lakes ore hauler that went down with all hands in a storm on Lake Superior in November of 1975. Gordon Lightfoot wrote and sang a ballad about the Fitzgerald, which is why everyone in my generation knows about the wreck.
The Great Lakes ore [...]

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