Let me repeat, The Economist said that.
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The Economist opines that Steve Jobs' anti-DRM argument is "in short, . . . transparently self-serving. It also happens to be right."
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.
I was standing in our magazine room — the room where we keep our supply of magazines — pulling out a couple of boxes of our beautiful February issue, when group publisher Angela Speziale walked in. It's nice to see Angela. She's smart, she's real, she's no nonsense, she means business. This is how things should be.
"Hello," I said. "How are you?"
"I'm well," she said. "And how are you?"
"I'm feeling…
Distressing news: Vandal punks have defaced the Gaudi-designed dragon at Barcelona's Parque Güell.
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).
Via The Well-Tempered Blog who got it from Bloc de Musica.
Here's something you probably never even knew existed: music librarian humor.
Via my favorite cousin Miranda Anabelle.
John Atkinson sent me a link to Time's Rick Rubin interview. I can see why JA liked it—Rubin's production philosophy reminds me a lot of the way JA edits and records.
What they have in common is that they only work on projects they want to be involved in and, once they commit, they bring out the best in their collaborators by trusting them to work hard at being themselves.
I really dug Rubin saying that writing is a hard, painful slog, but that without it, you've got nothing.