Links for 09-11-2007
Antimatter in our back yard, DRM dead by next summer, oil is over (seriously), another Bill Gibson interview …
-
1 – Free Photoshop Brushes at Brusheezy!
“Welcome to Brusheezy.com! A place for artists to download and vote for the best custom photoshop brushes and photoshop patterns on the internet!” Free stuff FTW.
-
2 – Finding Antimatter in the Solar System
“If Bickford is right, available antiproton supplies in our Solar System are sufficient to power the nanogram to microgram-level missions we discussed earlier …”
-
3 – Music DRM ‘dead by next summer’
“Killing DRM is saving digital music, reckons British retailer 7Digital. The company says DRM-free music sales now outnumber sales of DRM-enumbered music by 4:1 , and credits EMI with the shift.”
-
4 – You Mean Wall Street Just Realized The Recording Industry Was In Trouble?
“… the recent defections of Madonna, Radiohead and other big name acts has Wall Street analysts finally suggesting that the recording industry’s future isn’t very bright, and thus downgrading the labels’ prospects.”
-
5 – The End of Oil is Upon Us. We Must Move On – Quickly.
“If there are any lingering doubts as to whether the age of oil is nearing its end, the International Energy Agency has put them to rest …”
-
6 – William Gibson: The Rolling Stone 40th Anniversary Interview
“One of the things our grandchildren will find quaintest about us is that we distinguish the digital from the real, the virtual from the real. [...] The distinction between cyberspace and that which isn’t cyberspace is going to be unimaginable.”
November 9th, 2007 at 11:21 pm
I checked out article 3, the DRM shindig. I did not understand ONE of the acronyms used. I truly belong in the stone age. Where I would undoubtedly freeze to death being too inept to make my own fire. *sighs*