Dear Major Record labels (except EMI): I would like you to reconsider your opposition to offering DRM free music on the iTunes music store. Why, you ask? Pay attention, this is really important: I want to buy your product. Your musics, let me buy them. I’m in my early thirties; after listening to the radio [...]

I have been taking pictures for many years and have found it increasingly difficult to find the pictures I wanted in the ever growing folder structure I stored them in. A couple of years ago I started looking for a photo database that would give me the capability of sorting my pictures into multiple subcategory [...]

Over and over again people tell me how much they prefer the sound of a record to the sound of a compact disc. Some people like the popping of a worn out record. Others claim that the “dynamic sound” of a record is infinitely superior to a CD. Yesterday I bought a CD that had [...]

Great list of 10 economic fallacies

This is for you Keir: Lasagna Cat

What scene in the movies do you hate? (the best thread full of comments ever)

For years I’ve noted the frequent use of the term “jelly roll” in old jazz music. I always figured that it either had a meaning other than the obvious or they really liked their pastries back in the 20′s and 30′s. I finally looked it up. “Jelly roll” according to Wikipedia.