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2008.03.04
Nine Inch Nails released a new album Ghosts I-IV. What's interesting about this collection of 36 instrumental tracks is not so much the music itself (which is fantastic), but the method of distribution. Trent Reznor recently split with his record label, so this new album is being released online and in CD format, with the first 9 tracks available for free. He even uploaded them to torrent sites himself. If you want to buy all the tracks you can get them in DRM-free MP3, flac, or Apple lossless formats for only $5. If this doesn't scare the record labels, I don't know what will. It's obvious that the RIAA and the old model of music distribution is dead. There's also a $10 option to download files and get physical CDs, along with a $75 and $300 set of deluxe formats (printed book, blu-ray, etc). I've been a fan for a while, and this just takes it up a notch.
[ghosts.nin.com]
2008.01.22
After watching the incredible documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, I've gotten back into playing Donkey Kong on the MAME arcade at work. The perfect game? Close. It's pretty addictive, that's for sure. The documentary follows Steve Wiebe and Billy Mitchell as rivals for the world record score in Donkey Kong (currently held by Mitchell with 1,050,200). My top score right now is 29,000, so I have quite a way to go as I try to master this incredibly difficult game from 1981. Update 2008.01.30: My new high score is 58,600!
2008.01.14
I miss Reagan. Just watch this incredible video from 1964 and see what a great orator he was. [www.youtube.com]
2007.11.29
<rant>The Republican debates last night just go to show, on so many levels, how broken the entire system is. First, CNN has apparently decided that Romney and Guiliani are the only candidates they want, since they got 95% of the air time. Second, the questions were so stupid and vacuuous that they did nothing but enforce the notion that politicians need not reply with substance, but just say what the morons want to hear. Third, the only candidate that has any hope of fixing our country was marginalized and ignored because the media is scared of him. When you look at the issues that actually matter, Ron Paul is the only hope for our country, but I'm afraid the general population doesn't want to realize it because it means upsetting the apple cart. </rant> [ronpaul2008.com]
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