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Your Niche or Mine?
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Wes Phillips  |  Feb 14, 2007  |  0 comments
Clarke Bustard 'fesses up that classical music is a niche market. But, he argues, these days, what isn't?
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YouTube and the Law
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Wes Phillips  |  Jul 20, 2006  |  0 comments
Site hero Fred von Lohmann weighs in. Read it all for the long of it; the short of it: "YouTube's 10-minute clip limit and tiny video window cater to clip culture, not pirates."
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Yum!
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Wes Phillips  |  Nov 24, 2006  |  0 comments
Bagheera, unlike Huck, found the possibilities tantalizing.
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Zapped
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Wes Phillips  |  Nov 30, 2007  |  1 comments
Adam Sohmer writes: "A fine humanitarian has gone through the effort of aggregating most known Zappa videos residing on YouTube, and there's quite a bit on tap. Check out the professionally shot videos of the Yellow Shark concert and wonder why this performance has yet to see a formal release. Or just sift through the page and cancel the rest of the day's appointments."
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Zen and the Art of Record Licking
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Wes Phillips  |  May 24, 2006  |  2 comments
There are LP collectors and then there are those freakin' record lickers.
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Zombie Roaches
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Wes Phillips  |  Feb 06, 2006  |  1 comments
Ampulex compressa is a wasp that uses its stinger to temporarily paralyze and then hot-wire a cockroach so that the wasp can "drive" the larger critter home, where it can lay its egg on the roach host and seal it into a nursery. When the egg hatches, the larva chews its way into the host, where it feeds itself and then spins a cocoon.
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Zombie Ships of West Africa
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Wes Phillips  |  Mar 30, 2006  |  0 comments
"We're in the big African Queen inflatable, cruising alongside an anchored trawler. It's more rust than metal - the ship is rotting away. The foredeck is covered in broken machinery. ...
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Zou Yuan Yuan
China 2006
Wes Phillips  |  Dec 07, 2006  |  8 comments
This is Zou Yuan Yuan, managing director of Dussun Electronics Co. Ltd. That's pronounced da-sun, as in "Da sun, boss, da sun!"
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Zucker Says the Darnedest Things
News
Wes Phillips  |  Nov 04, 2007  |  0 comments
When we last heard from NBC Universal's CEO Jeff Zucker, he'd refused to renew the network's yearly contract with Apple's iTunes Store, leading Apple to immediately pull NBC shows from the store rather than have them yanked midseason. In addition, Apple managed to control the story so that NBC came off looking clueless and greedy. You'd think Zucker would have learned to keep his mouth shut from that media drubbing.
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