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So I came across this article a short time ago, and found it to be evidence of something I've felt to be true for some time now: that only the labels and the "big business" model of distributing music lose when music is free. Times Online, the online arm of The Times of London, has […]

So the whole retweet system in Twitter has always seemed sloppy, with two sets of syntax:
RT @berkleebassist
and
(via @berkleebassist)
This new system, proposed by Chris Messina, the same gent who came up with hashtags (you know, #hashtags), is quite elegant in its simplicity. The whole entry, New microsyntax for Twitter: three pointers and the slasher, can be […]

So I just read an article over at Salon, Camp Lejeune whistle-blower fired, and it absolutely blew my mind. I mean, I don’t expect our military to be perfect, especially at things beyond the battlefield, but seriously? Battle is traumatizing. Nobody’s gonna argue that seeing your buddy get turned into mist is something anyone would […]

It's rare that I buy an album. Even more rare that I spin the album all the way through more than a few times before cherry picking my favorite tracks. What's most rare though, is when I repeatedly listen to an album over & over again so soon after buying it. Yet that's what's happened […]

The New York Times published a really great article yesterday evening: Details on Health Care Bills in House, Senate. The article details the two House bills and single Senate bill that have been proposed to enact reform in the healthcare industry.
The first bill, The House Democratic bill (Affordable Health Care for America Act), is the […]

Absolutely unbelievable stuff. People wonder why our healthcare system is so fucked, here's a perfect example.
Healthcare CEOs and Recission:
The sister of an Illinois man who died of lymphoma said his policy was rescinded for the failure to report a possible aneurysm and gallstones that his physician noted in his chart but did not discuss with […]

[Edit: So it seems that this never posted properly. I'm reposting it again, all fixed up. Enjoy!]
So I decided to go with my idea to write album reviews of albums that, while not necessarily new, are either new to me or just so damn amazing that I just have to share my opinion of them. On […]

President Barack Obama. Just wow. Absolutely awesome. A lot of people mentioned some good stuff, & I wanted to highlight some of that here. So here's some choice bits:
Change has come to WhiteHouse.gov:
The White House’s website was updated today after Obama was sworn in. It looks great, but here’s the best news, from the blog:
“One significant […]

So I stumbled across Jurassic 5's 2006 album Feedback, and it is hott. Yes, that needs two t's. I'm still in the middle of listening to it & I felt the need to blog about it. Most professional reviews of the album panned it, and while it is not as killin' as Power in Numbers, […]

So while reading my newsfeeds yesterday, I came across this story: Kids Incorporated. I felt it definitely deserved some examination. The initial premise of the article is this:

David Archuleta’s going to win American Idol — you may as well get that through your head right now.

Now, I don’t really know much about American Idol and what’s been […]