Monthly Archives: August 2007

Album of the Week

Posted on 8/24/2007 by Ben

The album of the week is M.I.A.’s Kala.

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Wal-Mart MP3 Downloads

Posted on 8/23/2007 by Ben

The Wal-Mart music store is now selling DRM-free downloads for 94 cents per track or $7.88 per album. They are 256 kbps CBR MP3s. Boing Boing reports that they were blocking non-Windows machines but I didn’t have any trouble buying … Continue reading →

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Album of the Week

Posted on 8/17/2007 by Ben

The album of the week is Luke Vibert’s Chicago, Detroit, Redruth.

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Ian and Nisha’s Asian Adventure

Posted on 8/16/2007 by Ben

My friends Ian and Nisha are on a four month tour of Asia and are keeping a travel blog. Ian has been posting some nice photos to Flickr. Choice quote: Sick of pedestrians stepping out in front of your car … Continue reading →

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Album of the Week

Posted on 8/10/2007 by Ben

The album of the week is Okkervil River’s The Stage Names.

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Universal Music DRM-free

Posted on 8/10/2007 by Ben

Universal is the latest record company to try selling its music with no DRM. The music will be available through several music stores, but not iTunes, on a trial basis through January. Boing Boing says the files will be MP3s … Continue reading →

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Illuminatus! Audiobook

Posted on 8/10/2007 by Ben

Deepleaf Audio has Illuminatus! audiobooks. I just finished the Harry Potter audiobook so I may have to try this next. They also have the first of the Historical Illuminatus Chronicles, which I never finished reading. [via RAW Data]

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Robot Wisdom Feed

Posted on 8/10/2007 by Ben

I like Jorn‘s del.icio.us feed. del.icio.us adds annoying links at the bottom of each post but at least I get a feed with one item per post.

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Album of the Week

Posted on 8/3/2007 by Ben

The album of the week is Editors’ An End Has a Start.

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Mass Adopts OOXML

Posted on 8/2/2007 by Ben

The Massachusetts Information Technology Department received 460 public comments on its recent policy document which adopted Microsoft’s OOXML format as an acceptable format for state documents. The comments appear to be almost unanimously anti-OOXML, but yesterday the ITD announced that … Continue reading →

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