links for 2006-06-01
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"For most connected people, their knowledge of the music business comes from sites like Wired, Blog Maverick, CNET's News.com and the neverending stream of Mac-related sites. Objectivity can be hard to come by in these RIAA-hating quarters."
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"Have you ever been here before?" Al, a bald, mustachioed man perpetually lumbering across the room, asks. He never quite makes eye contact through his thick lenses, so it's not always clear whom he is addressing. "Do you know what our pizza looks like?
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MAC: Isn't it pathetic when he freezes? He's so tangled up inside. [Whispering] I think he's a LATENT HOMOSEXUAL. USER: Hey, while we're waiting, can I see those photos I gave you? MAC: Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....[Spins in place for 30 seconds.]
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"The Nintendo Amusement Park is a first attempt at making a life-size re-creation of Super Mario Bros. Players strap into a powered bungee system that lets them jump 12 feet in the air, collect coins and snag magic mushrooms."
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"Gutknecht believes that the cream cheese market is like the ice cream market 25 years ago -- only a few flavors dominate. He wants to be the Ben & Jerry's of cream cheese. 'The mission of our company,' he says, 'is to reinvent cream cheese.'"
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"This is one of the year's best indie-rock albums. Mr. Meiburg is figuring out some of the places a fearless falsetto will take him. (From time to time Shearwater evokes a ramshackle Radiohead.)"
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Where are our high-tech cabs? "More than two years after Bloomberg's in-person inspection and TLC chairman Matthew Daus's public pledge to get the equipment installed no later than Nov. 2005, cabs still lack the technology that so impressed the mayor."
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"Instead of attempting to integrate factual history and compelling spin into the usual banal bio, Barsuk sat an unsuspecting intern down with John Roderick to ask him some questions. Here's how it went."
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MP3 of Steven Johnson at the Serious Games session at the Pop!Tech conference. The other speakers in this session were Edward Castronova and Ivan Marovic.
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