December 2007

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DRM- it makes things inaccessable., originally uploaded by vrogy.

I’ve recently namechecked both the Lefsetz Letter and Ian Rogers, so when Lefsetz blogs about Rogers I just gotta chase that rabbit down the hole. Here are [...]

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14122007592, originally uploaded by roland.

It might be my favorite meeting of the year.
Not that the task is easy. Once again we were near-overwhelmed by the quality of proposal submissions we received for conference sessions. The [...]

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04-4-06 Radio Waves to the moon…., originally uploaded by Picture_taking_fool.

I can’t believe I’ve yet to blog about Radio Lab, a radio show from WNYC that has immeasurably enriched my commuting and late-night dogwalking experience over [...]

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There are two reasons I’ve been writing more than usual about music lately. One, I’m trying to follow my own advice to fledgling bloggers, which is to write about the stuff that you are genuinely most interested in, and not worry too much about what you think you’re supposed to write about. Two, I can’t [...]

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The recent normalization of torture in our public discourse has offered up some wonderful perversions of the language, as our journalists, perhaps out of a sense of propriety and good manners, can’t quite bring themselves to use the “T” word. So we read of interrogations spiced up with adjectives like “rough”, “coercive”, “aggressive” and of [...]

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levon helm in central park, originally uploaded by daniel arnold!.

One of things I find most valuable and satisfying about blogging is throwing together some half-baked thoughts on whatever is on my mind, and then watching [...]

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There was a time in my life when the prospect of Led Zeppelin reuniting would have been a ticket to rock and roll heaven for me, and while that time has past I hope for everyone concerned that tonight’s show goes well. Morbid curiosity may prod me into checking the NME’s blog every now [...]

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[Image above taken from one of many misguided initiatives as social networking enters its cash-in cycle...]
Nothing I intend to post here will be news to people who have been following the Facebook privacy saga. Facebook’s behaviour could be described as standard operating procedure in Web 2.0 these days, free services are paid for with leveraged [...]

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…here’s some tunage from a group that effortlessly sounds both traditional and cutting-edge all at once, Big Blood:
Video via echoplanar productions.
More on Big Blood via Scott Williams on the WFMU blog. The post also includes two tracks that may be downloaded and shared via a Creative Commons license.
Incidentally, WFMU is presently at work on the [...]

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