So I’ve spent the last three days or so with downhere‘s new offering Ending is Beginning on my virtual turntable. I am insane for this album. I can’t even be coherent about it. It feels groundbreaking. It feels extraordinary. And at the same time, it is downhere to the core. Maybe this is just artistic [...]
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The best commentary I’ve seen on the proposed U.S. financial sector bailout comes from theseminal.com: Dear American: I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude. I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has [...]
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I’ve been down with the flu for the last couple of days, so rather than coming up with anything new, I’m taking this opportunity to share the work of others. About AJ Strong as a poet, I can’t really say enough. He bends words and moods into patterns that frequently make my head spin. Always [...]
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Today we hear ebook publishers tell each other and anyone who’ll listen that the barrier to ebooks is screen resolution. It’s bollocks, and so is the whole sermonette about how nice a book looks on your bookcase and how nice it smells and how easy it is to slip into the tub. These are obvious [...]
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The Large Hadron Collider should be going on-line for the first time at the CERN lab on the Franco-Swiss border any…second…now, bringing with it either a fresh hope for all humanity, or the possibility of sub-atomic black holes devouring our reality, our space-time continuum and our pastrami sandwiches. Or both. I can’t decide. Anyway, in [...]
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Following up on my post yesterday about the troubling EULA provisions in the Chrome installation package, it appears that Google is admitting that they made a mistake and working to fix it. I made this comment a couple of places yesterday, but I’ll make it again: For some bizarre reason, I never expected Google not [...]
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