Science and Technology

Suddenly it dawned on those with a more progressive agenda than the current denizens of the White House that there are a shitload of young people out there who probably lean toward their way of thinking (“progressive” change is for the young and the old – people in the middle …

Duh. We’ve only been saying this for 2+ years: reduce the price of digital music and they will come. The online music downoad services are competing with free – no matter how many people the RIAA sues, free is not going to go away. BUT there are real COSTS to …

Power to the people – right on. Another online protest, and this one I am behind 100%. As I mentioned rather vehemently here, the ruling against NWA for violating copyright in the use of a three-note UNIDENTIFIABLE sample from Funkadelic’s “Get Off Your Ass and Jam” is a disaster. Downhill …

Jon Pareles of the NY Times put together an excellent list of resources for free, legit, digital music on the Internet – hey it’s the kind of thing big-time journalists are paid the big bucks to do: Epitonic The first and best place to look for any band with an …

How exceptionally cool is this? Um, exceptionally. OldVersion.com provides “heritage” versions of popular Windows-based programs that give you an option against being railroaded into “upgrades” that may not meet your needs or desires. They provide 489 versions of 51 programs. The service is free but donations are accepted. Why? Sometimes …

No, not another hurricane. We met artist British Chloe Cumming when she painted the exquisite cover for the Brian Wilson tribute album Box O’ Clox. Chloe informs us that her site has just been updated with paintings of the Beach Boys, various pro wrestlers, and other delights. Click the link …

England is trying out a system of satellite monitoring of repeat offenders and pedophiles, tracking their dead asses as they go about their felonious affairs; well actually hoping to prevent further felonious affairs. While the civil libertarian in us may feel the impulse to leap up and cry “invasion of …

The Secret Service is VERY touchy these days about things like political protests, potentially possibly implied threats, and the like. Have you seen this flapdoodle about Indymedia publishing the “Phone numbers, addresses, and e-mails of over 1600 RNC delegates“? Apparently the Secret Service perceives some kind of threat in this …

This one way to sidestep the FCC: Internet-only talk radio. Red Bar Radio – Realistic Talk for the Stable Minded. Man, I hope they don’t talk about horses, I don’t like horses or their stables. After five months off the “air,” Red Bar is back today with a hour-long daily …

Hip-O Select features out-of print and hard-to-find treasures that are available to you directly via the Internet. These releases are NOT available at your local store, or even your unlocal store. Check out the variety of cool-guy rarities and collectable reissues by clicking on the banners below and enter an …