The career path of a musician can be pretty difficult. I was reminded of this last weekend when visiting a favorite hangout which serves decent food, good drinks, and the occasional band. This night, the band was rather excellent, playing cover songs like “Free Bird” from southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. What made it [...]

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Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson has set out to defend Joel Tenenbaum, a 25-year old physics graduate student at Boston University. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is claiming Joel downloaded 7 songs using Kazaa and is seeking payment of $1,050,000 to the record labels. It is unclear whether Joel will get any sold-out [...]

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Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel Corp., is well known for making the prediction in 1965 that the number of transistors on a computer chip would double every two years. Early in 2008, Intel announced a record 2 Billion transistors in 1 chip.  With each new chip density record the problems of crosstalk and logic gate [...]

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Privacy concerns and the need for discreet conversations are problems shared by secret agents and, according to engineers Joseph A. Paradiso and Yasuhiro Ono, your common office setting. After all, you cannot be too careful with discussions around promotions, pay, or that conversation that happened in Vegas, that should have stayed in Vegas.
The MIT students [...]

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For Sirius XM Radio, having your name associated with Apple should be a good thing. Especially if your stock is trading in the penny stock range ($0.3430 to be exact, as of 05/18/09 close). A recent Motley Fool article points at investor comments over Sirius XM’s interest of having an application on the iPhone’s App Store (you’ve [...]

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It’s amazing how times change. What would be considered absolutely unacceptable 40 years ago is the norm now. Sometimes I wonder what people will find completely acceptable 40 years from now. Yikes!
In any case, just for fun, here are 30 or so album covers that were either banned, changed to appease an [...]

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I’ve got 2 large boxes completely full of old cassette tapes (remember those?) in my closet. There are probably over 400 tapes sitting there, degrading, losing their magnetic information, slowly dissolving into silence, or perhaps more correctly, white noise.
Will I ever listen to any of these again? Probably not. Heck, I don’t [...]

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It’s been up for a little while already , but I just wanted to officially let everyone know about our new music history pages. You can look up what happened on today’s date in musical history right here: today in music history.

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