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Is This the End of Copy Protection?
Wes Phillips  |  Feb 11, 2007  |  0 comments
An essay with the unassuming title of "Thoughts on Music" has certainly caused a furor over the last week. Of course, it didn't hurt that it was written by Apple's Steve Jobs or that he stated absolutely that digital rights management copy restriction systems "haven't worked, and may never work, to halt music piracy."
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Hmmmmm
Wes Phillips  |  Feb 09, 2007  |  0 comments
As Dave Barry is wont to say, The Singing Neanderthals would be a good name for a rock band, but it's a book by cognitive archeologist Steven Mithen, arging that language and music evolved from a common ancestor. He calls that ur-communication "Hmmmmm" (holistic, manipulative, multi-modal, musical, and memetic).
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Bagheera Baby!
Wes Phillips  |  Feb 09, 2007  |  0 comments
Doesn't this phiz look like it should be on a car hood?
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Bliss
Wes Phillips  |  Feb 09, 2007  |  0 comments
Huckleberry gets comfy on the NAS drive.
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Vandals Attack Dragon
Wes Phillips  |  Feb 09, 2007  |  1 comments
Distressing news: Vandal punks have defaced the Gaudi-designed dragon at Barcelona's Parque Güell.
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Mad At the Weather, Mad At the Dust
Stephen Mejias  |  Feb 08, 2007  |  2 comments
I'm mad at the weather. It's cold. Colder, in fact, than it should be. This is why I'm mad. If things were just as they should be, I wouldn't complain.
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Music Wants to be Free
Wes Phillips  |  Feb 08, 2007  |  1 comments
The Economist opines that Steve Jobs' anti-DRM argument is "in short, . . . transparently self-serving. It also happens to be right."
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Faces of War
Wes Phillips  |  Feb 08, 2007  |  0 comments
The Smithsonian has a fascinating article about the Masks for Facial Disfigurement Department, which fitted disfigured veterans of the Great War with prosthetic faces. One benefit of reading it online is that there's an accompanying video.
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Jamaican Label Art
Wes Phillips  |  Feb 08, 2007  |  0 comments
Really cool site with labels from Jamaican singles. Get your analog nerd on.
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Oh Roy!
Wes Phillips  |  Feb 08, 2007  |  0 comments
Eddie Campbell ruminates on Roy Lichtenstein's "appropriation" of comics art.
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