Recent Comments:
Gibson intros SG Robot Guitar, new edition of Les Paul version {Engadget}
Apr 11th 2008 2:32PM Hey,
If they'd mark it down to $999 it might be worth it to buy
one, strip off that nasty purple finish, and redo it in sonething
cool.
The attraction isn't standard tuning. If you've ever hauled
around 3-4 guitars because you're doing songs in a variety
of tunings, you'd have a whole new appreciation for the
idea.
Pneil
Bill O' Reilly - Why Won't You Support the Movie Fighting for Life ? {Blog Maverick}
Apr 8th 2008 5:51PM Hmmmm,
He doesn't like you. You don't like him, but
expect him to promote your movie.
?
Sounds simple and not terribly likely.
Pneil
AKE's BlueCom 102 pocket repeater keeps bikers in sync {Engadget}
Feb 15th 2008 10:44AM Yeah, but mostly we're swearing at people talking
on the phone while they cut us off in cars :-).
Boogie2
Scala-rider Q2 lets you talk to other Q2 riders, over. {Engadget}
Feb 12th 2008 1:33PM It has "dual speakers", is it "stereo". Does it
support the new bluetooth stereo music profile?
Their last models didn't.
The State of TV News - Dan Rather Gets it Right {Blog Maverick}
Jun 14th 2007 11:46AM Mark,
I get my news from the net because I can actually get a somewhat balanced view of the events in question. TV news is becoming pretty inconsequential. TV news has become a great place to see
who won on Idol last night or what's up with Paris or Angelina,
but pretty useless from a news perspective. It's more about
the personal views of the station/network and personal bias of
the announcer than anything even remotely resembling decent journalism.
Dan Rather is not a person who's personal opinion means anything to me. I like a lot of your programming, but I'll never watch Dan. Maybe if you could team him up with Ann Coulter? That would at least have some entertainment value.
Pneil
Some Quick Thoughts on the Music Business {Blog Maverick}
Apr 4th 2007 4:05PM
The problem isn't their business model, ok... their business model isn't the whole problem. If you look at the number of releases per year, you'll see that the music industry is releasing far fewer albums than they used to. Upcoming new artists often get no promotion and their contracts are cancelled when their first album isn't a blockbuster.
The corporate music industry is looking for the next big payoff and is much more interested in finding a clone of than on actually developing new talent.
The music buying public (above the age of 12 or 13) isn't fooled. We won't buy the dreck they're releasing. I buy as much if not more music than I ever have, but in more and more cases, it's from independent artists off their websites. This is actually a good thing since the artist gets the lion's share of the profits in this case.
The music industry in it's current form (RIAA and all) deserves the success they're having.
pneil
