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 the language. One of the adults poured water all over Daisey’s notes on the way out. The incident is all on video and worth watching, Daisey handles it pretty well. [via Boing Boing]
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.
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.
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.
Robert of the Radish has a noble goal of making Daniel Johnston #1 on Rhapsody. How hard can it be?
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 a forest of unnecessary gizmos. Linux is blazingly fast compared with Microsoft’s OS, utterly simple, complete with any application you can imagine and – more amazingly – based on an entirely different philosophy than Windows. There’s a spirit of abundance and transparency in this Linux universe. Need something, and you just grab it. Pay, if you like, what you like, when you’ve determined its of value to you.
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]
