Radiohead is the best band ever. I’ve said that before, and I’ll say it again. They’re touring North America this summer following a release of yet another (!) album. I simply cannot wait. I really really hope they come to Denver, and if not, I’m flying out to Santa Cruz to see them in San Francisco. I hope 808 has the couch ready. (link via SVN)
Looks like Radiohead won’t be showing up to the Grammys this year. They call it a ‘spectacle’. I have to agree. It seems that there is a ton of music that goes unrecognized in the Grammy-nomination circle that is so much better than what actually gets nominated. The whole thing is like one big advertisement for songs and albums everyone already knows about, even if they’d rather not.
Bass player Colin Greenwood added: “It should be done in private, like masturbation, really, shouldn’t it? It really shouldn’t be done in public. They’re the only two industries that jerk off in public.”
So in a move of shameless self promotion, I’m mentioning here that Deeperhue is officially under redesign. So far, it’s just a splash page, but check it out if you’re interested in what the new look is. Not terribly ground-breaking or anything, but nice, I feel.
This is a rather brief, but interesting article on another of Rudy Giuliani’s narrowminded crusades for the citizens of New York. Remember, its not how you live your life, its how you tell other people to live theirs.
Is it just me, or did the internet just get very quiet? Almost… too quiet. And I’m not talking about MP3s.
Once a song goes through the wash, it is important to note, it will always stay ”clean” — it never turns back into a standard MP3. Instead it will remain in a special, scrambled format which can be played only by the recipient, who would be in sole possession of the decoding key.
Here’s Napster’s new plan for staying around… I simply cannot wait for them to do this, so I can start the stopwatch to see how long it takes for a hacker to crack it. My guess would be a couple hours. They’re talking about using the Napster protocol to scramble files in different ways when you download a file. The file gets scrambled depending on what you’ve paid for: if you paid for the ability to burn CDs with the MP3s, the file you get is encrypted with the ability to do that. You have a ‘key’ that decrypts songs for your own use. If you don’t want to pay, you get the ability to listen to songs for a few hours or days… Which is what I’m assuming people will hack: the encryption mechanism that converts MP3s into scrambled Napster files. They’ll make it so you can convert them back into regular old-fashioned MP3s.
Microsoft has decided to eliminate volunteer peacekeepers in the fantasy game ‘Asheron’s Call’…. a game in which multiple (read: thousands) of people take part in an epic adventure online, graphically. Like merging the graphics and internet play of Quake 3 Arena with a MUD. So the volunteer peacekeeping peeps are gone, and everyone’s pissed off. They’re going to be replaced by full-time, paid employees of Microsoft. What’s interesting here is not what MS has done (which is what the article is about), but how people are reacting to it. These player are really, really, really mad. Apparently they’re so mad, they’re cussing in chat rooms, and there isn’t even anyone there to keep them from doing it… They seem to not realize that it’s a FUCKING GAME. One dude mentioned how much time he’d spent moderating: close to 1000 hours (in no specified time-frame, but still).. I guess it isn’t a game to most of the players, it’s their whole lives: “There’s just a lot of hand-holding and commiseration among the volunteers. This whole ordeal is turning into a full-blown grieving process for a lot of us.” Hoo-boy.
This is one of the coolest ideas I have seen in a while. Someone invented plastic that heals itself. Its not like it regrows enormous parts that have broken off, but it does extend the lifetime of plastic parts that have to put up with the normal wear-and-tear of daily abuse.
We just bombed Iraq. Why? I don’t know. My first inclination is to blame it on the kid-in-a-candy-store syndrome, but it is probably way to early to pass such judgments.
