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Nine Inch Nails Releases Free Album

Nine Inch Nails released a new album, The Slip, with little fanfare, just a simple message from Trent Reznor:
(thank you for your continued and loyal support over the years - this one’s on me)
Reznor released the album in several different formats for free download or bittorrent and released all of it under a Creative Commons [...]

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Friday Link Post: Late Edition

It’s been one of those weeks, but thankfully it is Friday! I would have had this post up earlier, as usual, but I hadn’t written it yet. Some interesting articles to read, give them a look and let me know what you think in the comments.

Career Lessons from Eliot Spitzer’s Call Girl, Ashley Dupre Penelope [...]

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Friday Morning Link Post

Attended a great Tweetup in Austin last night, lots of smart folks and great conversations. I’ll write a followup with my thoughts, but for now, I will leave you with some linkage:

If you are a music nerd, you probably use AudioScrobbler/last.fm, which generates all kinds of Top 25/100/500 charts for your listening habits, but did [...]

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Playlists: iTunes, last.fm, and Beyond

There have been a couple of posts on lifehacker this week and last week, talking about Smart Playlists in iTunes and what kinds of clever things people do with them. As a recent convert (out of convenience more than anything else) to iTunes, I’ve been working my way through all of its quirks/features. Cover Flow [...]

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Open Thread: Music for Studying or Writing?

I’ve noticed that recently, when trying to write or just study, I have a hard time doing anything productive when I have music going that has lyrics or a lot of instrumentation going on. I’ve messed with some ambient streaming stations and some of that stuff has me intrigued - I think that having something [...]

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