Once upon a time, I could locate albums in my music collection by the color of the spine. The cover art provided a kind of stylistic fingerprint as unique as the music itself; it was tangible. The process of hearing something new involved the consumption of the cover, jacket, and any enclosed materials in concert [...]
I recently came across this article relating to the USA Track & Field regulation against wearing headphones in sanctioned events. Here’s the opening paragraph:
At the peak of the marathon season, with one of the year’s biggest races set for Sunday in New York, a worry has emerged among some runners, and it has nothing to [...]
So I’m sitting here at work listening to iTunes when a song comes on by Laibach called Geburt Einer Nation. When it started, it sounded like a spoof song to me. It sounded like it might be German [...]
Day 5 or the Hell Week vacation started off well. We managed to get up and moving in time to join the rest of the riders, however, most of them decided to ride the [...]
In an article titled California tying education tech grants to copyright education, Ken “Caesar” Fisher writes:
Legislation is being considered in California that would see the state’s educational technology grant program tethered to requirements for teaching copyright law to students. Introduced nearly a year ago, AB 307 would amend section 51871.5 of the Californian Education [...]
I have a powerbook which contains my music library. Generally, I listen to iTunes when I’m working. Since I dislike hearing the same songs played frequently, I tend to play the party shuffle with a Not Recently Played smart playlist set to exclude files that have been played in the last four weeks. The result [...]
I have lost count over the years of the number of people I have told to not listen to music while running. Well, Runners’ World has recently published an article titled Listen while you run. To all those who have suffered through listening to my opinion, I’m still sticking to my guns. However, you can [...]
Arstechnia had a Nate Anderson story today about another theoretical rootkit in a piece of commercial software. While that’s not good news, there were an additional two paragraphs at the end of the story about the provisionally approved settlement of Sony/BMG’s class action lawsuit from their XCP rootkit fiasco. Anderson summarized the terms of the [...]
