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  • Bye Bye DRM

    I wrote recently (Fuck the RIAA) about how much the recording industry sucks, particularly because they put pointless restrictions (DRM) on music bought online. Well if you haven’t heard already, one record label – EMI – and one (big) online music vendor – the iTunes Music Store – are going to start offering DRM-free music…

  • Nuking Dreams

    This is from a recent issue of Science: In 2004, a research team led by Pierre Maquet of the University of Liège, Belgium, used positron emission tomography (PET) to monitor brain activity in men playing a virtual-reality game in which they learned to navigate through a virtual town (actually a scene from the shoot-’em-up video…

  • There’s too much confusion, I can’t get no relief

    OK, so if you watch Battlestar Galactica, you know that the song All Along the Watchtower, by Dylan and covered by Hendrix (these people need no first names), played a very important role in last night’s episode. So you wanna hear something weird? I had my iPod on shuffle at work/school today, and that song…