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Monthly Archives: April 2007
The watering of Mike Daisey
Marina and I went to see Mike Daisey‘s monologue show a couple of weeks ago and really enjoyed it. Last week, a group of 87 Christian teens and their parents and teachers walked out of the show, apparently upset about … Continue reading
Posted in Boston, Life
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Other Music Digital Music Store
Other Music have launched their digital music store with DRM-free indie music downloads. Go grab yourself a copy of Neon Bible or Destroyer’s Rubies.
Posted in Copyfight, DRM, Music
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Internet radio dealt severe blow as Copyright Board rejects appeal
NPR challenged those Internet radio royalty rates at the CRB and lost. Only a favorable court ruling or congressional action will save net radio from becoming at best a commercial wasteland. Please visit SaveNetRadio.
Posted in Computers and Internet
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Dial A Human
Dial A Human has instructions for getting directly to a human on dozens of customer service IVRs. No special tricks here, just the buttons to push without having to listen to the menus.
Posted in Computers and Internet, Productivity
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Let’s Make Daniel Johnston #1
Robert of the Radish has a noble goal of making Daniel Johnston #1 on Rhapsody. How hard can it be?
Posted in Rhapsody
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Rushkoff Switches to Ubuntu
Author Douglas Rushkoff gets frustrated with Windows Vista, installs Ubuntu and loves it. I felt like quoting this entire post but I’ll restrain myself. Yes, I’m working on it right now, and it makes even the Mac OS seem like … Continue reading
Posted in Copyfight, DRM, Linux, Ubuntu
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DRM-free Music From iTunes
Apple and EMI will be releasing EMI’s entire catalog as DRM-free, higher-quality audio files in May. They’ll cost extra, $1.29, but the album price is the same. This is really great news! [via Boing Boing]
Posted in Copyfight, DRM
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