Stuffis

Still "Brent's pile o' stuff" but at least now there are sections.

Ebooks

• Wired details the state of borrowing an ebook from the library with OverDrive, as of December 2011 (not great).
• A new publishing model: Unbound has readers pledge toward a new book, a la the "street performer protocol" (the "threshold pledge system"). Kickstarter is doing this for more than just books.
• We don't need libraries for the same reasons any more. It's time to think about the future of the library, and the librarians who are more valuable and necessary than ever.
• Using OPDS (XML) it's pretty easy to generate a catalog of your ebooks
• Bibliotype (demo): A CSS/HTML/JS template for ebooks, from Craig Mod, a writer on A List Apart

Media

• The story behind the THX sound. "The score consists of a C program of about 20,000 lines of code."
• David Cope's research into AI composition — MP3s from the EMI program that analyzes historical composers and tries to create compositions in the same style
• The reactable UPF in Barcelona Spain), a modular synthesizer using objects on a table — basic demo #1 and basic demo #2
• Article on free music downloads
• Toshiba SD-4900 DVD player
• Heh: If the RIAA and MPAA merged, they could use the acronym "Music And Film Industry Association of America" MAFIAA

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