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Briefly: MP3: Growing Up Falling Down, RIAA’s greed, Zen Micro Photo pics, LG’s DVD burner with Light Scribe, iPod bartender
- MP3: Paul McCartney’s Growing Up Falling Down (there’s a free download in his latest CD, “Chaos and Creation in the Backyard”, that isn’t accessible to Mac/Linux users, so Danny does the right thing)
- RIAA: Greed, defined (“Even though they have to spend roughly $0 to market music via the iTMS, and spend exactly $0 to sell music through it. And they spent exactly $0 to design, manufacture, market and distribute the iPod. But, they need a cut of the pie. The Music Industry isn’t just greedy [...] they appear to be criminally stupid”—well said; also: read the linked article, which is Ars Technica’s take on the whole subject) [via]
- Pics: Zen Micro Photo (man it looks good—according to the site, here’s what Europeans should expect: Zen Micro Photo 8GB for 300 in October, Zen Vision 30GB for 500
oy!in October and Zen Sleek Photo for somewhere around 250-300 in November) - LG 16X Multi DVD Writer with Light Scribe (Light Scribe means users can print GIF/JPEG/BMP images on the disk surface, which is a welcomed addition; this Double-Layer drive can burn DVD-R/DVD+R/DVD-RAM, and should cost about $90)
- iPod bartender is a database of drink recipes that can be stored in your iPod (you can choose what kind of drinks to put in the database; also have a look at the whole PodSites -
that’s how these groups of inter-linked notes are called- concept) [via]
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