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May Have Never Heard Before

"I want to hear something with horns," I say, finally.
"Cool," John DeVore replies.

I continue shuffling through the pile nearest me, and soon, I find what I'm looking for: In the Reins, a seven-song collaboration between Calexico and Iron & Wine.

"Have you heard this one?" I ask, handing the CD to John.
He takes the CD, questions and admires its quiet and nameless cover art, turns it on its side to read the spine, and: "Oh! Calexico. No, I haven't heard this."
Happy and satisfied, I announce: "Track three."

John cues the track. I move…

Friday Cat Blogging

"Bow down before me, puny humans!"

Friday Cat Blogging: Huck

"Oh, were you looking for this?"

Why I Love Google Video

Because I type in "hi-fi" and it gives me this.

iPod Remote Control Hack

I was checking out Hack A Day, which listed an iPod remote control hack. When I pulled it up, it turned out to be a controller that works off of T + A's remote control buss. Pretty cool, if somewhat narrowly focused.

Sony Does Not Ignore Mac Owners

Memo to all of us smug Apple computadors: Sony doesn't discriminate. It turns out, Sony BMG is using SunnCom DRM to install kernal extensions on your machines. That's in addition to the F4i root kit infestation that PC users are complaining about.

Trojan Horse Exploits Sony's DRM

I'd love to write about something else, but this story keeps going and going and going. Now we have reports that Sony's malware has opened consumers' (yes, customers, people who actually bought their CDs) computers to other malware.

Stop Sending Me This!

Of course I found this survey on the effectiveness of aluminum foil hats at stopping governmental brainwave manipulation funny—the first five times I received it!

But keep the links coming, folks.

Not Yet

"Blog up, yet?" asks JA,
on his way out to get a sandwich.

I respond without looking away from our Products of the Year feature:
"Nope."

Relieved, perhaps, JA replies:
"I live in constant fear."

Time to Move On

And Art Dudley tells me, too. He tells me:

Just when
you think

things
with women

can't get
worse,

they do
get worse

but then
they get

better.

This piece of wisdom, like that Silver Jews song, is complicated. Complicated, but good. It ends with hope and hope is good. And I have many good reasons to believe in hope, and many good reasons to believe in Art. Besides, Art rocks the bow-tie. The bow-tie is a complicated thing. Complicated, but good. With age comes more than wisdom.…