JoeChinni.com

Sigh….Where do I even begin. How about here:

According to Jarvis, the student, who remains anonymous, was just doing his assignment, illustrating the right to dissent. But over at the Kitty Hawk Wal-Mart, where the student took his film to be developed, this right is evidently suspect.

An employee in that Wal-Mart photo department called the Kitty Hawk police on the student. And the Kitty Hawk police turned the matter over to the Secret Service. On Tuesday, September 20, the Secret Service came to Currituck High.

The student put a tack through a picture of W and took a picture of it. Then Wal-Mart saw the picture when developing it and called the police. Wow.

AlterNet: Wal-Mart Coverage: Civics Student…or Enemy of America?

After listening to a co-worker go through the phone tree game for 2 days I remembered this page I found. Next time you need to call a cell phone provider or other business with a terrible phone tree, refer to this list.

Find a Human

I’ll let this quick experiment I did tonight speak for itself. In short, the new Combinator and Mastering Suite are the shit. They make it so much easier to get going when all you want to do is put an idea down. This is the same once through performance unedited for velocity or any control changes, exactly how it was played. The response is insane. I tried to play something that would bring out the expression.

mp3 – Reason Piano
mp3 – Reason Dulcimer

Propellerheads Software

David Berlind is pissed about DRM and I’m right there with him.

You shouldn’t take any of this to mean that I don’t believe in compensating content copyright holders with whatever royalties they’re due (DRM’s other role is to assure such compensation to some extent). But as long as DRM technology stands in the way of legitimate use of the content that I’ve paid for, I as an informed buyer will vote with my dollars by going elsewhere for my content (for example, sites where the artists offer their music for free). You should too. That’s my Declaration of InDRMpendence. Don’t let this plague spread beyond the epidemic level that it has already reached. Just say no to DRM (stop buying DRM-wrapped content before it’s way too late and oppose any DRM-related laws under consideration by any legislative body).

Read the rest of his rant here