by Mike Browne
on February 14, 2004
Here’s a link to mp3’s of DJ Danger Mouse’s The Grey Album. He remixed Jay Z’s Black Album and The Beatles’ White Album to make one kickass record. But the record companies want this album to go away. There are only 3000 physical copies out there and EMI has asked the stores distributing them to destroy them.
Copyright law really sucks in this case. It’s more about the record companies and money than it is about the protection of artists. What are we missing that would set the world on fire creatively as a result?
Copyright law in Canada is a little different. You can read about it right here. The Act contains a special exception for “private copying”: it permits the copying of music files “onto an audio recording medium for the private use of the person who makes the copy”, but does not permit copying for the purpose of “distributing” or “communicating to the public by telecommunication”.
So uploading ‘bad’. Downloading? Kind of grey…
Check out Electronic Frontier Canada, a Canadian group pushing for the legalization of file sharing on the web.
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by Mike Browne
on February 13, 2004
I changed some style and layout elements for this blog today. I added some links and tidied up a few categories on the left navigation. I also did a new graphic. Hope it’s not too hideous.
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by Mike Browne
on February 13, 2004
Conan’s barbs skewer ‘dumb’ Quebeckers
I’ve been watching the Conan O’Brien show this week as it’s from Toronto. Talk about hilarious. It’s interesting to see how American’s perceive us. Last night’s show was the best yet. Triumph the Insult Comic Dog proved once and for all that we take ourselves far too seriously here in Canuckistan.
This opens up a whole other dialogue…
Separation for Quebec? A distinct society? Just don’t talk about it, and for God’s sake don’t say anything negative. If you speak against it while you ‘parléz anglais’ you’re instantly branded an intolerant racist. Doesn’t all the talk of separation and a ‘distinct society’ sound like racism too? I understand people wanting to preserve their way of life, but don’t step on my toes in the process.
Look at this current crap in France right now. Muslim women (and other reigious groups) are no longer free to wear the clothing they are religiously dictated to in state schools. Separation of church and state? Perhaps on the surface. Intolerant ignorance? Probably a touch. Ethnocentric xenophobia? Definitely. As also evidenced in Quebec through the French over English on signs debacle it appears the French are really afraid of disappearing or at least not being as ‘French’ somehow.
Look at the fear 9/11 generated in Western Society. We were attacked by a group who believes their way of life is ‘right’ and as we believe our way of life is more ‘right’ than theirs we hit back. It’s what has started pretty much every arguement and war throughout history.
Self-righteous intolerance seems to be a cancerous thread throughout history. How about the Crusades when it was Christianity’s turn to be fanatical? Probably the most extreme modern example would be the Holocaust. We are ALL guilty of it to varying degrees.
Wow, I started out to write a paragraph about a bit on the Conan O’brien show, but it has turned into quite the rant. It’s strange how it takes an outsider to make us look a little more closely within.
Don Cherry for Prime Minister!
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by Mike Browne
on February 13, 2004
I’m not sure what grain and soybean prices have to do with sports. My guess is that they get news feeds from elsewhere that are automatically posted if they have keywords in them. Odds are that the words ‘trade’ and ‘Chicago’ are tagged. We’re hoping to see Alex Zhamnov come to Vancouver from Chicago. Perhaps this is an omen or the universe’s way of playing a cruel joke.
Thanks to Lance for the odd link.
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by Mike Browne
on February 12, 2004
Check this out. Make sure you do a search too. LOL! Thanks to Bill G for the link.
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by Mike Browne
on February 12, 2004
Finally I can see BUBBA HO-TEP here. But the Tinseltown 12 site doesn’t list it as starting tomorrow. I hope it’s not been delayed again. I’m a huge Bruce Campbell fan and have been waiting for this one for a long time.
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by Mike Browne
on February 12, 2004
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by Mike Browne
on February 12, 2004
Check out Living Children :: COSI’s Virtual Knee Surgery Exhibit. Jackson sent it. Thanks. I think.
That *THUD* you just heard was me fainting
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by Mike Browne
on February 12, 2004
It’s over. I guess Barbie is way to plastic for Ken.
It’s not all one sided though. Ken just doesn’t have what it takes to please Barbie. Pull down his pants and see.
Thanks to Lance for the link. He’s crying and playing with his Barbies right now.
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by Mike Browne
on February 12, 2004
In this game you have to hit the peguin out of the air onto a target with a snowball. Not as easy as it appears, but another addictive game. I got 563.1 just mucking about.
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