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New Category – Issues
OK so I know I promised to keep politics out of this, but hey, there’s a lot of it about. To clean up some of the past posts on things like the Broadcast Flag I’ve created a new category – Issues – to hold anything relating to the law, lawmakers and other such things. Enjoy!
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Video Games Are Good For You
Author Steven Johnson has written an open letter to Hilary Clinton in response to her call for an investigation into the effects on children of video games. I think it perfectly illustrates the absurdity of the current campaign-de-jour of the technically illiterate ruling classes. Pandering to middle America has always been a big vote winner, sadly it usually leads to really, really dumb policies.
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Max Graham
Max Graham is a house DJ (based in Canada) who, although claiming not to play trance, appeals to a large number of trance fans. I first came across him on the 4th installment of the excellent Transport/Tranceport series which he mixed in 2001. His latest release Shine, is an uplifting mix with enough melody for the house set and a high enough bpm for the trance crowd. Not to mention the always welcome presence of prog fave Sander Kleinenberg. I’m looking forward to his next mix, for the Mixmag Live series, due out in August.
iPod Flea
Scott Kelby created this fantastic spoof commercial for the next Apple product – the iPod Flea. That link is Quicktime, if you prefer Windows Media, try this.
Comedy Mugshots
Over at The Smoking Gun they have a collection of police mugshots, mainly of celebrities captured in their not-so-prime, but also some of regular citizens who take it that little bit further than your average criminal. For example, this guy, who probably wishes he’d worn a different shirt, and this guy who was arrested for trying to buy more gold spray paint. I wonder what he was planning to do with it?