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Quote"There are two types of people in the world: those who can’t tell the difference between Arial and Helvetica, and those who despise Arial." — cervus"
Quote"Excellent, eye-opening piece at Music Think Tank on the inherent difficulty of selling music, and exposing some of the guff spoken about alternative revenue sources."
Quote"The idea of making music from an imaginary culture was to give ourselves a set of restrictions and parameters within which to work. Otherwise, we might have just gone on all kinds of creative detours, some of which might have been interesting. But better we confine ourselves to something. Which kind of worked. At least it kept us within bounds for a while, [and] by the time we abandoned that whole idea, which was pretty early on, we already had a direction."
Quote"If you’re playing improvised music and flub a note or phrase in a scale, repeat the mistake and there is none."
Quote"In the early days, we’d go skiing together and Peter would have an idea every 30 seconds,” says the British entrepreneur Richard Branson, whose Virgin Group includes more than 200 companies. “We’d be sitting on the lift with me scribbling madly in my notebook, trying to get everything down. He’s worse than me."
Quote" Time Machine automatically excludes hot folders like /var/tmp and /var/vm and Library/caches from its backups. But it does not exclude, by default, the Downloads folder. If you are like me, things in your Downloads folder are mainly transient items that have not yet earned the status of permanent guests on your hard drive. So add this to your list of excluded items by using the Options button in the Time Machine System Preferences panel.
Quote" Maybe it’s time to let TV go. We could heave an end-of-sitcom sigh, run the closing credits and mount the color bars for good. Would a single teenager tune in for the finale? But just because television is dying as a commercial enterprise doesn’t mean it has to die as an art form. For producers looking to energize dramas and sitcoms, here’s one solution: set more shows in the ’50s, ’60s, ’70s and ’80s — eras when TV wasn’t dying.
Quote"Final preparations for the 2008 Summer Olympics are in full swing in Beijing. This includes completing hundreds of construction projects, reconstructions, pollution controls, cultural training, and a general "beautifying" of greater Beijing. Rehearsals and drills take place daily as Chinese citizens hurry to finish up - after all, the whole world is coming soon. The Olympics are set to begin on August 8th. (24 photos total)"
LinkPete Townshend Muses on Rock Honors, Smashing Computers, Eddie Vedder in E-Mail to Rolling Stone
Quote"The bottom line is this: For a time, it seemed as if we were about to use the bright beam of science to illuminate the murky world of human action. Instead, as Turkheimer writes in his chapter in the book, “Wrestling With Behavioral Genetics,” science finds itself enmeshed with social science and the humanities in what researchers call the Gloomy Prospect, the ineffable mystery of why people do what they do."
Quote"This alarm clock steals your mobile phone and randomly shuffles through your contact list and calls someone every three minutes after the desired wake up time."
Quote" Whenever questions are raised about privacy, big online companies talk about how benign their plans are for using data about their customers: Much data is anonymous, they say, and even the information that is linked to individuals is only meant to offer users a more personal experience tailored to their interests. They never talk about subpoenas.
LinkThese tracks and artists were most frequently deleted by the Last.fm community from their scrobbles.
Quote"Twitter is like a topping on FriendFeed’s pizza. Everybody loves pizza. Not everybody agrees on toppings."
