Tag: USD
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Sita Sings the Blues; or why music licensing stifles creativity
Sita Sings The Blues is a wonderful film mixing a Sanskirt ancient epic with great 1920’s music and incredible animation. Nina Paley spent 3 years doing this I think partly autobiographical animation – in parts incredibly breathtaking, laugh-out-loud funny, charming, and moving. So can you see it? I mean those 1920’s songs must be out…
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The Pirate’s Dilemma
It seems like music the book selling model is changing – Boing Boing has had a lot of posts recently that support the fairly obvious theory that giving away free e-books actually increases sales (it makes total sense, try before you buy always increases sales, and like CDs sometimes you want the physical object, more…
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Crate Digger Death Match
It’s my great honour to be involved with judging round 1 of Crate Digger Death Match this year – the competition where you can only use $12 (or equivalent) in 12 hours to buy Charity Shop albums, instruments etc. and then use those and only those to create a 6 track album. My and the…
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£50 Note 60: $50 Bill now up (1/3) AND NightNurse 43 Podwhores (3/3)
It’s the Mary Tyler Whore Show! No, it’s the £50 Note 50 Dollar Bill show, the first of the trilogy of podcasts that Radio Clash #96 was 2/3 of (collect the set). All 3 are presented by myself, Scott from Night Nurse and Jeb from £50 Note. Go listen cos it’s SO funny, and you…
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Servage.net is terrible – don’t host with them
Stupidly I chose a new host (Servage.net) for mutantpop and other sites, with a personal recommendation, but one that I didn’t realise had a lot of benefits for the other person they didn’t tell me about (2 months+ free hosting for them, as well as the extra server space for both of us he was…