Madness Factor

I recently came across a couple more interesting business models for online music stores. In both models, the mp3s on offer are unencumbered by restrictive DRM (digital rights management) technology. The first store, which I learned about on One Tonne Music, is called Fake Science, and features the music of independent artists. This site’s strategy […]

Ah, Vermont, how I miss thee. Of course that would be the place where anti-Bush sentiment could be shared with schoolchildren in the form of a vocabulary quiz.
One example: “I wish Bush would be (coherent, eschewed) for once during a speech, but there are theories that his everyday diction charms the below-average mind, hence insuring […]

Yikes! I’ve missed two days! I’m going to blame it on Thanksgiving, but it really has more to do with laziness. Hubby and I had a low-key holiday, topped off by a few drinks and pumpkin cheesecake with friends at the pub. Wonderful company and no mess to clean up—hooray!
A couple of updates: 1) I’ve […]

NaNoWriMo update: I didn’t make it to 6668 by midnight, but I just now made it to 6670. I may attend the North Seattle write-in tomorrow… uh, I mean today. It starts at 2 in the afternoon, and it would be nice to have my daily quota done early in the day.
On a completely different […]

Thanks to two older brothers, Electric Light Orchestra was a staple of my listening diet growing up. As a kid, I enjoyed singing along to the ear-pleasing melodies—even though the lyrics I was singing were mostly a series of nonsensical mondegreens. In the years that followed, I continued to retain my fondness for ELO, and […]