http://www.reasoner.org Helping to separate The Reasonable from The Unreasonable Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:50:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Thought you might be interested in a new music curation project I’ve started. Home taping is killing music. Just like the old days. < / self promotion > Tags: mp3_blog, home_taping, killing_music, music_curation, self_promotion http://www.reasoner.org/archives/390 Well at least, world’s craziest globe that actually purports to be fully accurate. I spent hours of amusement last night looking at this. Cmon, everyone knows that South Korea is really called “Saurla,” Japan is really “Lapan,” Antarctica is just “Tartica,” and Scotland should be “Scotlano.” More wonderful inaccuracies here. ... http://www.reasoner.org/archives/389 Altanta rappers DJ Drama and Don Cannon, famous for their Gansta Grillz Mixtapes, were arrested last night in a big bust of their so-called “bootleg” CDs. These were not counterfeited CDs as the RIAA claims, but instead freestyle rap mixtapes that were often used to hype new releases. In the ... http://www.reasoner.org/archives/388 Okay, so I have not yet seen it, but reliable sources tell me it’s excellent. This Film Is Not Yet Rated exposes the MPAA’s rating system, something that they’ve tried very hard to keep under wraps. The irony, is of course, that the MPAA originally rated the film NC-17. From ... http://www.reasoner.org/archives/387 Hey kids, guess what? AOL is entering a new market—that of movie downloads. (Oh wait, they already tried this over two years ago.) Priced at $10-$20 each, no capability to burn to DVD, and Windows Media DRM, it’s sure to be a hit. (Oh wait, that won’t even work ... http://www.reasoner.org/archives/386 Steal this film is a short documentary examining the impact of file sharing on the media industry, and the political movement that has grown out of p2p. Part one is out (streaming: Part 1a, Part 1b; torrents: iPod version, Regular version) and has some great interviews with people from ... http://www.reasoner.org/archives/385 In a recent Forbes article entitled “Don’t Marry Career Women,” you’d probably think it was more likely to come from The Onion: Guys: A word of advice. Marry pretty women or ugly ones. Short ones or tall ones. Blondes or brunettes. Just, whatever you do, don’t marry a woman with a ... http://www.reasoner.org/archives/384 Slashdot is running an article on the campaign to get rid of the caps lock key. Caps off, as the group is called, assures us that the world would be a far better place with a much more useful key in that position. Hey, I’m all for it. When was the ... http://www.reasoner.org/archives/383