Archive for the 'Politics' category
February 15th, 2007 / General, Life, Music, Politics, Useless Information, Work /
emusic is all that iTunes isn’t. I can’t find good documentation but it looks like the label is getting a good share. Since they are indie I’m assuming the artist is getting taken care of. No DRM for me. Steve could learn something.
Having many projects cooking at once is [...]
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January 9th, 2007 / General, Music, Politics, Useless Information /
Today a coworker asked me a question about iPods.
“I just got an iPod,” she said, “and my husband has a bunch of music that he’s save in some format and I’d like to get some of it onto my iPod. How can I do that?”
I immediately knew we were going to get into trouble. [...]
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October 30th, 2006 / General, Politics /
Because every church is like a damned field campaign office pushing their ‘values’ agenda of intolerance and bigotry.
I can’t find the song at this time but Talib Kweli summed it up best with his lyrics: They used to ask you “Who’s your master?” / Now they askin’ “Who’s your pastor?”
I have no problems with [...]
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October 24th, 2006 / General, Life, Politics, Useless Information /
Over the last few years I’ve really opened my eyes to what is going on in the world. I can speak somewhat intelligently about any current event that NPR covers. I read various blogs (mainstream or not) and watch a few news shows. It’s hard to do because when one looks closely [...]
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June 21st, 2006 / General, Music, Politics, Useless Information /
DRM, Digital Rights Management, is a method for controlling the use and distribution of content and hardware. Today the Wall Street Journal ran a debate between a fair-use advocate law professor and an MPAA executive (found via Daring Fireball). This excited me because I hoped to hear a good argument from the ‘fair [...]
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April 10th, 2006 / General, Life, Politics /
I don’t have anything outside of basic cable. ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, PBS and…. HBO. I’m not really sure why I get HBO but I’m not complaining. I generally abstain from watching network television because it makes me want to pitch my perty LCD display out the window. This leaves me [...]
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January 18th, 2006 / General, Life, Music, Politics, Useless Information /
I’ve totally been jamming to Soulive lately. I’m certainly not a jazz afficianado like some of my friends but I often find myself fused into the music in a way that involves my whole body. Feet stomping, ass shaking, and hands smacking. What I find most interesting about it is how it [...]
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November 10th, 2004 / Politics /
I’m from the south, and even I think this person has a great point:
Fuck The South
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