Out of the 100 Albums You Should Remove from Your Collection Immediately, I’m kind of suprised that I ended up as a pretty light offender. I’m currently facing 5 counts of musical manslaughter (I’m pretty sure that’s just a misdemeanor in most states) due to owning:
06 The Replacements – Tim
20 Fugazi – 13 Songs
32 Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin
52 Mogwai – Come On Die Young
58 Ben Folds Five – Whatever and Ever, Amen
There are a few albums on there though that I used to own (14, 17, 56, 61, 62, 71, and 72) and also quite a few that I’d still like to get despite their inclusion on this list of pariahs. I’m over 50% less guilty than Brett though, not that anyone’s keeping score. Are they?
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August 7, 2003 in
Gaming.
So when you think of World War II, what’s the first thing that naturally springs to mind? That’s right, circa 18th centrury pirate warfare. I can hardly believe it myself, but there’s actually a pirate based mod for Battlefield: 1942. It’s bizarre, yet strangely compelling. If only the developers could be convinced to add ninjas to it so that the real ultimate power of a ninjas vs. pirates battle could finally be made available to those of us not fortunate enough to have been born as a pirate or a ninja. (That’s right, I’m linking to realultimatepower.net well over a good year after it was totally awesome to do so. What are you going to do about it?)
Ok, I’ll admit it. I’m a total hard drive whore. I can never pass up the chance to get more storage, and so when a co-worker decided to sell off a 180 gig hard drive I was all over that like a zombie on the sweet tasty brains of the living. This brings me up to 280 gigs on my machine with another 8 gb sitting around waiting for me to find something to do with it. I’d copied over all my collected tv shows to the new drive and everything had been working fine for a couple days when I got a nasty surprise at work today. I logged in to my home machine from work via Remote Desktop to check on some eDonkey2000 file transfers that were running and found a ton of error messages and an inaccessible 180 gig drive. All my episodes of Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sealab 2021, MST3K, Simpsons, The Tick, Trigun, and the Brak Show flashed before my eyes in a bittersweet montage of hilarity. I had to nervously wait out the rest of the day at work before rushing home to see if I could salvage anything. I first applied the old stand-by of turning the power off and pressing on all the cable connections. Booted back up and… everything was back to normal. I don’t know if something was loose or if it was overheating, but I do know that nothing is worse for a hard drive whore than to have a disk that you don’t trust. The big drive is going to be on probation for quite a while until I feel safe putting anything on it again.
FLCL (aka Furi Kuri aka Fooly Cooly) is without a doubt the most insane, incomprehensible, and entirely enjoyable anime I’ve seen in a long time. I caught the first episode of it on Adult Swim last night and was blown away. The animation goes over the top to riff on every manga-style animation gimmick imaginable in hyperactive rapid fire succession, and then throws in a ton of new tricks to boot. The show itself is highly self-referential and it knows that it’s so cool that it doesn’t even have to bother with making sense right off the bat to get you hooked. As for the story, well, see… there’s this alien girl riding around on a vespa carrying a Rickenbacker with some kind of motor and a ripcord in it… and then there’s a boy who has giant fighting robots THAT JUMP OUT OF HIS HEAD!! So as you can see, very basic stuff here, nothing too strange… If you even remotely like anime and have no problem with shows with a severe case of ADD that go out of their way to confuse you, then you really ought to check this out.
“But we do ourselves a disservice by fixating on current income structures and not thinking about future possibilities premised on amazing technological advances, especially when the rights at issue concern the flows of ideas, something fundamental to free societies.”
- Jonathan Zittrain
(via Neal [thanks a lot man, I got in to work later than I'd wanted to today because I just had to finish reading this.])
Great article on the intractable state copyright law seems to currently be in. I know I’ve harped on it repeatedly before, but this quote elegantly sums up the problem I have with the ways our laws are being mangled to preserve existing revenue sources. Available technology should drive business models, not the other way around. Also, I’d never thought about it before but given the kludged together state of copyright law, I’m not even sure if providing a quote from the article in this matter constitutes fair use.
Don’t copy that floppy. Holy crap, this is the most amazing thing on the internet.
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