Monthly Archives: October 2005
the high cost of low price
there’s a movie about Wal-Mart, which sounds interesting, almost immediately by definition. :) it’s premiering in san francisco on november 2.
RIAA execs: we’re rich, bitches
**AA salaries: RIAA: President Cary Sherman: $1.13 million CEO Mitch Bainwol: $908,848 The MPAA folks didn’t do too shabby either: Jack Valenti: $1.4 million Executive VP Simon Barsky $380,351 Executive VP William Murray $379,559
Common Errors in English
Common Errors in English.
riaa sued dead woman
while the RIAA is pondering their RICO defense, i’d like to note they sued a dead woman a few months back: The Associated Press reported that the RIAA identified Gertrude Walton as a prolific file sharer known as “smittenedkitten”. Accusing … Continue reading
music genome project
there are a bunch of ways to analyze and recommend music. shazam, which uses acoustic fingerprinting to recognize songs based on 15-second excerpts transpose’s goombah and the indy project, which use collaborative filtering to recommend music music plasma, an interactive … Continue reading
the $69 pizza
Canadian Immigration Minister Joe Volpe has expensive taste and poor judgment: A day after failing to explain how he had managed to spend C$138 on pizza for two, Canadian Immigration Minister Joe Volpe was roasted in Parliament on Wednesday for … Continue reading
rockstars tell fans (how) to cirumvent DRM
the bands hate the “copy controlled” pseudo-CDs as much as you do: Now, in the most bizarre turn yet in the record industry’s piracy struggles, stars Dave Matthews Band, Foo Fighters and Switchfoot — and even Sony BMG, when the … Continue reading
US broadband sucks
Salon notices many other countries have decent bandwidth for less than we pay for the craptacular SBC service here: Next time you sit down to pay your cable-modem or DSL bill, consider this: Most Japanese consumers can get an Internet … Continue reading
pilot added to no-fly list
‘No-fly’ action takes pilot’s job: Cape Air pilot Robert Gray said he feels like he’s living a nightmare. … When Gray showed up for work a couple of weeks ago, he said Cape Air told him the government had placed … Continue reading
another reason to hate wal-mart
Nutjob at Wal-Mart photo lab calls secret service on high school art project: Selina Jarvis is the chair of the social studies department at Currituck County High School in North Carolina, and she is not used to having the Secret … Continue reading