smackfoo.com | I find your lack of faith disturbing.

“If you’re a fan of the Command & Conquer series, three small words are bound to get you excited: Kane is back.” — probably the only thing to get me booting back into windows - the RTS that started it all is back and based on a demo run, it will rock.

"It was 7:51 a.m. on Friday, January 12, the middle of the morning rush hour. In the next 43 minutes, as the violinist performed six classical pieces, 1,097 people passed by." — a verbose yet insightful article that asks a simple question.. #

“It looks like 60ies curtainsâ€?, my sister said. Well, that’s good enough for me. — Joen has released his next somewhat unique flash ‘installment’.. I’m still just as adicted to the clicky action as I was the first time I discovered Joen’s idea. #

"The EMI announcement is not exclusive to Apple. Consumers have made it clear that unprotected music is something they want. We plan on offering it to them as soon as our label partners are comfortable with it.." — yeah and we don’t steal idea’s either! #

"My feeling is that typical consumers won’t care that much…lower price will win out over slightly higher quality and some nebulous future flexibility." — kottke misses the point, DRM free audio at a higher bitrate and *no* device lock in. Nebulous?! #

"Apple® today announced that EMI Music’s entire digital catalog of music will be available for purchase (without digital rights management) from the iTunes® Store worldwide in May." — hell froze over, EMI to release drm free music (for a price). #

A nifty little site to give a blog "9 minutes of fame" — every 9 minutes a new URI can be submitted for the edification of others. #

“We’re giving up on Hack-A-Day and becoming Craft-A-Day.” — hackaday.com decides to roll très late in to the April Fools party. Better luck next year, guys.