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Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:10:35 -0400

startupquote: Learn early, learn often. - Drew Houston

Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:21:47 -0400

startupquote:

Learn early, learn often.

- Drew Houston

startupquote: Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making...

Sat, 03 Jul 2010 15:34:06 -0400

startupquote:

Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.

- Seth Godin

ASCAP Raises Funds to Fight Copyright Control for Creators

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:07:34 -0400

First of all, if you haven’t heard or read this yet, poke on over to a copy of the actual letter sent to ASCAP which you can find here and here.

Many forces including Creative Commons, Public Knowledge, Electronic Frontier Foundation and technology companies with deep pockets are mobilizing to promote “Copyleft” in order to undermine our “Copyright.”

Well that was a stab in the dark to integrate music & political sentiment if I’ve ever seen one. Alright, I’ll bite. What exactly are we talking about here?

They say they are advocates of consumer rights, but the truth is these groups simply do not want to pay for the use of our music. Their mission is to spread the word that our music should be free.

I’m going to set aside Public Knowledge & Electronic Frontier Foundation for the moment and focus on Creative Commons, as I am most familiar with them. It sounds here like ASCAP is advocating against a music distributor who refuses to pay legally-mandated royalties, not a non-profit organization who facilitates more flexible copyright enforcement for creators who desire it. Lets take a look at CreativeCommons.org to verify that -

Creative Commons defines the spectrum of possibilities between full copyright and the public domain. From all rights reserved to no rights reserved. Our licenses help you keep your copyright while allowing certain uses of your work — a “some rights reserved” copyright.

Doesn’t really seem to match up, does it? Lets see what else ASCAP has to say in their cry for support -

We all know what whill happen next: the music will dry up, and the ultimate loser will be the music consumer. - ASCAP

Are you kidding me? This is just absurd. Even if Creative Commons was secretly an organization trying to abolish copyright (instead of working in tandem with it, as they are), people wouldn’t stop creating music. Nobody makes good music because they’re happy with US Copyright Law. Most creators I know are extremely unsatisfied with it, and welcome any assistance that organizations like Creative Commons bring to mend a broken system.

I mean, we could also talk about the long and shady past of ASCAP, the fact that they’re a privately held organization who doesn’t publish financial statements (meaning nobody knows how much money they collect on behalf of artists, or how much they keep for themselves), and even that fact that services like Creative Commons licenses which puts Copyright restriction control back into the hands of creators could stand to lose them a lot of money (and probably is : universally mandated copyright = more royalty collection for ASCAP). But I don’t want to get too negative here…

What is a Locavore?

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:11:28 -0400

Local food (also regional food or food patriotism) or the local food movement is a “collaborative effort to build more locally based, self-reliant food economies - one in which sustainable food production, processing, distribution, and consumption is integrated to enhance the economic, environmental and social health of a particular place”^[1] and is considered to be a part of the broader sustainability movement.

“Locavore” was coined by Jessica Prentice from the San Francisco Bay Area on the occasion of the 2005 World Environment Day to describe and promote the practice of eating a diet consisting of food harvested from within an area most commonly bound by a 100-mile (160 km) radius. “Localvore” is sometimes also used.

- Wikipedia

Some other good basic articles on the subject -

The Savvy Shopper’s Guide to the Farmers’ Market

5 Reasons Why Farmers Markets Are Good For You

"There almost seems a conspiracy in our modern civilization to counsel just the opposite: be..."

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:55:48 -0400

“There almost seems a conspiracy in our modern civilization to counsel just the opposite: be impatient, be angry, “look out for number one.” But what is life without patience? What use is money if we live in exasperation with those we love, if we cannot stand to live with our own family? What good is it to have your picture on the cover of Time [magazine] if you cannot be patient with yourself?…We seldom realize what power there is in patience.”

- Eknath Easwaran

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Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:03:38 -0400

"A new form of me began to take shape. I planned my reemergence like the Normandy invasion...."

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:30:29 -0400

“A new form of me began to take shape. I planned my reemergence like the Normandy invasion. I’ll just say it - I did my homework. I read every memo. Thomas Tipp was right: People will read again.”

- Vanilla Sky, 2001

poortaste: RSA Animate - The Secret Powers of Time Professor...

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:05:30 -0400

poortaste:

RSA Animate - The Secret Powers of Time

Professor Philip Zimbardo conveys how our individual perspectives of time affect our work, health and well-being. Time influences who we are as a person, how we view relationships and how we act in the world.

via moocha

listening to "the flaming lips - flight test"

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:29:53 -0400

listening to "the flaming lips - flight test"

listening to "The boy with the arab strap"

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 09:24:01 -0400

listening to "The boy with the arab strap"

listening to "Broken Social Scene - World Sick"

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 09:14:59 -0400

listening to "Broken Social Scene - World Sick"

listening to "Maxence Cyrin - No cars go (Arcade Fire Piano Cover)"

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 17:29:07 -0400

listening to "Maxence Cyrin - No cars go (Arcade Fire Piano Cover)"

listening to "Who Knows, Who Cares - Local Natives"

Sun, 06 Jun 2010 15:04:09 -0400

listening to "Who Knows, Who Cares - Local Natives"

listening to "Stevie Wonder - Signed, sealed, delivered I

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 10:43:40 -0400

listening to "Stevie Wonder - Signed, sealed, delivered I

listening to "Bon Iver feat. St. Vincent - Roslyn"

Mon, 10 May 2010 02:14:18 -0400

listening to "Bon Iver feat. St. Vincent - Roslyn":

@Lillaz: “This is so beautiful. (And I’m going to ignore that it was in Twilight…)”

The Bird & The Bee - Rich Girl

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 01:43:08 -0400

The Bird & The Bee - Rich Girl

The Mountain Goats & Kaki King - Black Pear Tree

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:28:05 -0500

The Mountain Goats & Kaki King - Black Pear Tree

Frightened Rabbit - Swim Until You Can’t See Land

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:59:00 -0500

Frightened Rabbit - Swim Until You Can’t See Land

thenortheastscene: Artists To Watch: Tan Vampires The Northeast...

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:54:36 -0500

thenortheastscene:

Artists To Watch: Tan Vampires

The Northeast Scene is all about the local music worth getting excited about. Tonight I had the opportunity to catch a local NH favorite - the Tan Vampires at the Barley Pub in Dover. What was originally described to me as “crooning kinda stuff”, is probably closer to if Sigur Ros frontman Jon Por Birgisson covered Conor Oberst’s next album. The songwriting is vividly present, the vocals ring through the songs more like chimes than lyrics, and the band confidently maneuvers around a country-folk sound that matches the genre’s sound.

If you haven’t seen the Tan Vampires yet, I’d strongly recommend it.

- RC, The Northeast Scene

The Tan Vampires

UNH MUB - Strafford Room
March 11th, 730pm - $5
(Opening For The Mountain Goats)

The Red Door
March 15th, 8pm - $5