RIAA vs The World

A woman is sued by the RIAA for using an “online distribution system” to “download, distribute, and/or make available for distribution” plaintiff’s music files, even though she has never used a computer in her life.

Before you fry the RIAA, perhaps you should read this interesting comment on Slashdot:

This woman does laundry a lot and has no dryer, so she hangs her clothes to dry. When the RIAA said she was using an “online distribution system” to make plaintiff’s music files available, they were not referring to a computer; what they meant was that she is often heard whistling copyrighted songs while she hangs clothes on the line; hence, “online distribution system.”

Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds

Even though I’ve had this album for a month or so, I’ve only recently had the time to listen to it, and boy is it fantastic! I throughly recommended you go and get Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds, in either two disc version or the super fantastic seven disc book version, it’s possibly some of the most enjoyable music I’ve listened to this year. Of course, this all depends on your listening age.

Faithless live

As I mentioned elsewhere, tonight I went to see Faithless live in concert. You’ve probably heard all the hype about them being one of the best live acts around, and have to report; they are fucking amazing!

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Productivity whore

It’s times like this that I really need to boost my productivity and efficiency when I work. If I really need to get something done, I have a process of shutting down the rest of my brain and focusing on the parts that are doing any useful work. Unfortunatly, this isn’t easy as it sounds, but I’m going to go through some tips here to make sure that project you’re working on is in on time! Or at least just a little late…

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