Here’s an interesting little nugget from Syd Mead, conceptual designer for Blade Runner, Tron, Aliens, and more: The fashionable ideology that “artificial” lacks the inherent goodness of “natural” is an appealing, but hopelessly simplistic notion of the intellectually chic. Artifice is the result of a deliberate intent to make. Nature also “makes” things, using a [...]
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After a semester of hemming and hawing, I finally wrote a column for the Virginia Law Weekly: 1Ls: By now, you’ve no doubt received all your fall-semester grades. Well on the way to making Law Review? Congratulations! The pills designed to make your bowel movements smell like bakery-fresh cinnamon rolls are in the mail. It [...]
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I just came across some revealing statistics at Digital Music News (thanks, DP). In relevant part:
Categories: Business and Economics,Music
Tagged: Business and Economics, Music, recording industry, riaa