Alan at ThinkNOLA has hit a tough spot. Head over to the ThinkNOLA Blog and donate some cash to get him and the server through not just this month, but help make ThinkNOLA a real non-profit.
I’ll issue this challenge. Anyone who’s coming to the party this weekend, donate $25 to ThinkNOLA. That’s two beers and nachos at Cambridge House.
Get your petty cash out and butter up the significant others because we’re going out on the town. The semi-annual TPC Board Advisory/excuse to drink with Dr. Sandy is on this week Friday. You don’t have to be a board member to attend (although you will have to drink with board members) to come out. We’re starting at Sazarac Lounge and maybe a trip to Cambridge House; who knows.
So polish off your weekly cartoons, write that movie review, by the kids a DVD. Just get your butt out to Sazarac at 6:30 this Friday. No photos will be taken. Well, maybe one if we get John to do that thing.
Want to be really scared about your government? Watch this.
Thank God at least one television network has the balls to broadcast this stuff. Can you imagine any talking head on the Big 3 even thinking about the gun control issue in this way.
History is so old.
Link (with NSFW language)
“It’s been really hard,” Sachs said. “This potato has changed everything. I can’t explain it.”
All hail the potato! Glory be it’s starchy mercy.
Oh, wait, Marshall, MI. Never mind.
Tune in next week when Holland resident Gertrude Van Pennipinchen sees Jesus in profile in a plate of toad-in-a-hole.
Thanks for inviting me to your meeting last night. I had a great time and was only disappointed that we didn’t have more time to talk. If you had questions that us panel members didn’t get to, please feel free to ask them here in the comments or via email at ryan@youknowwhatpart.com.
Since we didn’t get to all the questions, my notes for the session and available here.
Thanks again; hope to come and talk with you again soon.
Google introduced My Maps, where you can create hyper-local maps using the Google Maps interface. Friggen awesome. I’ve started one for Chelsea here. Official announcement and instructions.
A cool tool for visualizing tornado activity in the US put together by a UM Prof Perry Samson.
Huzzah! Finally, one company has the guts to call the technorati’s bluff and offer higher quality, non-DRM’d music downloads through a major digital distributor. EMI has announced that they will offer all of their digital assets, via iTunes, as non-DRM’d AAC-format files at “twice the quality” of the DRM’d version. EMI’s press release doesn’t mention the detailed of the kbps size, but 256kbps seems likely.
The hitch? The files will cost more, $0.30 more. Now, not a huge bump and, as BoingBoing points out, could be a sneeky way to backdoor a price increase, but not a terribly huge increase. This is feeding into the geek cred of we’ll-pay-more-for-no-DRM line. The real test will be if the general consumer will do the same thing. In a world where cheaper often wins out over quality, it won’t be the stock-optioned Valley web head that decides this, it will be the average iTunes user; the one who now sees that $20 iTunes card worth 15 songs, not 20.
Hopefully we’ll huge sales on non-DRM’d Coldplay, Pink Floyd, the Stones, and Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds to validate this business move. I’ll be surprised, but here’s hoping.
