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As I wrote about at length in a piece called The Disc, the theoretical end of the music industry’s business model is approaching faster than you might think.
And just to lend further evidence to that claim, InPhase Technologies announced they had developed a holographic disc that can hold 300 GB of data. They are projecting [...]

I got my copy of The Disc from a friend at work.
I first heard about The Disc a year before, but I had resisted trying to score a copy. Not so much because I was afraid of being caught (as of yet, there hasn’t been any public acknowledgment by the industry about even the existence [...]

The fact of the matter is this — this country has both laws and a process by which we create those laws. And as far as we are able to respect that process we are to respect the laws that are manifested as a result.
However, when that process is subverted, then those laws are unjust. [...]

According to iTunes, I added some 300 albums to my library in 2004. Of those released in the past year, these are some of my favorites. You wouldn’t go wrong by picking up any one of them.
Best:

Arcade Fire Funeral

Rilo Kiley More Adventurous

Iron & [...]

Alan Moore’s Watchmen is quite possibly the greatest graphic novel of all time. His work helped define intelligent comic art, and stqill resonates today, easily holding it’s own with the best fiction of the past few decades.
Today, Something Awful is running an amusing series of remixes of Moore’s work. (Well, really it’s Dave Gibbons‘ art, [...]

Ha. Someone landed on my site searching Google for “Kelly Clarkson,” and then tried again with the search box on the home page.
Let me tell you, that is one artist you’re unlikely to find here…
Though apparently Ms. Clarkson did get mentioned way back in December. I believe the title of that post was “People We’re [...]

Did you see what George Bush said after his pet project of getting an amendment to the US Constitution to ban gay marriage was shot down by the Senate?
Quote, “I am deeply disappointed that the effort to pass a constitutional amendment affirming the sanctity of marriage as being between a man and a woman was [...]

In an update to the rather popular Conglomerate Cheat Sheet, the list of corporate holdings for each of the major media companies has been reworked to reflect recent acquisitions and takeovers.
The past six months have not seen any truly major moves — the same handful of companies still hold almost all of [...]

I recently made two cds filled with tracks that will remind me of the past year. Some of the songs are new, most of them are old, but all of them ended up with some of the highest playcounts on my iPod. And iTunes playlists just make it so absurdly easy to burn mix [...]

After some consideration, I’ve decided to shut down the dedicated Breakdown Industries site. A decent article on Breakdown takes about 2 or 3 hours to research, write, and edit. At first, I found that I was writing one article a day on average. Then, one every two or three days. Then once a week. [...]