Random Acts of Meaningless Violence Edition
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20 Miles Out of Town In Cold Irons Bound Edition
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Zune owners are a notoriously thin-skinned lot. It might have something to do with the Zune’s perpetual status as a third place also ran in the portable media player market. Or maybe it’s the fact that the Zune apparently borrows so much of it’s “innovation” from the world’s worst portable media player.
Whatever the reason for their prickly nature, Zune owners have a whole new reason to grumble. Early this morning every 30 GB Zune on the planet stopped working. You have to give Microsoft credit, this was an act of synchronized ritual suicide that has not been seen before in the consumer electronics business.
How does something like this happen with a mainstream product? Some have speculated that this could be a date problem related to the new year. In fact, many are already referring to this as the Z2K9 bug. But, if that’s the case then there’s a bug in Microsoft’s bug. You would expect a problem of this sort would manifest itself at midnight on New Years Eve, not the night before.
The Physical Kingdom of Time Edition
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Singing With the NYPD Choir Edition
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No Fucking Tiny Fucking Tim For Me Edition
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Like The MC 5 Way Past Midnight Edition
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You can talk about genres, artists, albums, or even songs, but sometimes what keeps us coming back to music is the discovery of the transcendent musical moment. For me, “the moment” is the part of the song that fully and utterly engages me; the reason that I keep coming back to it.
I’m not necessarily talking about hooks here, because the purpose of a hook is the draw you into a song. I’m really talking more about traps: the part of a song that that keeps you there.
The is the fifth in a series. The first one had 25, the second one had 24, the third one had 23, the fourth one had 22.
Also: there is a slight — but not total - Christmas theme going on with this one. More of an arc, really. And a couple of mini-arcs, too!
Every single moment I’ve listed below kills me single every time I hear it.
Oh, and this isn’t in any kind of order, despite the numbering.
Oh Look At That, A Dumb Idea Just Found A Friend Edition
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Sigh.
Either that, or Bill O'Riley really is gay. He really does protest a bit too much . . .
Ah, we do love a snarky column.
Okay, okay, we'll take Defamer. Or not, looks like it was sold before, well, anyone knew it was on the market (anyone being the staff).
Great, great idea. And a harbinger of the future.
Yep, this is the kind of controversy that occupied the last moments of the official (and unofficial) 'loper vacation.
Is it possible our AT&T service could get worse?!
Or, if you pay attention to (and respond to) what your customers are saying, you might come out a winner.
Uh huh: "I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror." We consider him to be reaping what he sowed.
Once again, the capacity of overpaid executives to make bad business decisions overwhelms our capacity to take them seriously as smart, thoughtful stewards of business.
Zunes everywhere are apparently committing synchronized ritual suicide.
Gamers may be drooling over this, but eBook lovers also have something to look forward to. If true, this could be a serious challenger to the Sony Reader and the Kindle.
You ever feel like the NYT isn't even trying anymore? Just keep writing the same stories with the same angle and hope nobody notices. In this edition, it turns out that musicians are making money from licensing rather than album sales.
We vote more of the same. When it comes to Ticketmaster and its competition, consumers seem to always lose.
Yay. We love it when government tries to come up with out-of-the-box ideas. First, assuming this can even be done...
Well, if nobody else wants it, we'll bid. We have sufficient fantasy experience to convince us that running a real team won't be that hard.
RIP Catwoman.
Love this: Chris Ender, CBS' senior vice president of communications, issued a season-themed statement: "Wow, I wonder what they got the other networks for Christmas."
In other news, the American Family Association continues to prove it is the most anti-family group on the planet.
Good for her. Now can we start talking realistically about this concept of "evening news?"
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