Archive for the ‘News’ Category.
Why I won’t buy the new Coldplay CD
Turns out that Coldplay (or, at very least, Coldplay’s label) doesn’t really understand their audience. I like Coldplay well enough. Our household has purchased (legally, with actual money) all of their CDs in the past. But, no longer. Their latest CD apparently comes with anti-piracy technology that prevents the disk being ripped to MP3 (ie: no iPod, no iTunes) or played on certain car stereos (!?!) among other things.
Well, thanks but no thanks. Call me when you stop treating your customers and fans like thieves.
Wikipedia is literally changing the world
I have to read more about how “Wikipedia played an important role…after the tsunami had struck”, but now there’s a doctor using Wikipedia’s Avian influenza page as a central clearinghouse for flu-related information towards helping prepare for a pandemic.
I think this is what they had in mind when they said, “information wants to be free”.
The last word, revealed.
I would be remiss if I failed to post a link to the following story, given what I’ve linked prior to this.
I’m not happy about what’s revealed in this article. I’m not sure how to feel about it at all, actually. He did what he did for whatever reasons. It doesn’t make it right. It doesn’t make it understandable or justifiable or honourable or any of that. But it is part of his story.
It’s the ugly part of this story.
“See,” I said, “I didn’t want to know that particular part of this story.” I still wish I didn’t. But I do.
My respect for the man’s writing remains undiminished. Of the man himself, I can only ask, “What the fuck?” What could you possibly have been thinking, Hunter, to have rendered yourself so much hamburger while your six year old grandchild was in the house?
Here’s the story. Make of it what you will. I…still don’t know how to react.
“You idiot kid, you don’t have a clue…sometimes you just get caught in the eye…you’re pulling him through…” - Elliott Smith
New York Times Book Review Archives
This morning I stumbled across the New York Times Book Review Back Issues archive today. It appears to be the full text of every NYT:BR magazine (published Sundays) since the beginning of 1997. Happy day!