Music to your ears: how to plug in to downloading
Independent - The rapid rise of the MP3 player has revolutionised the way we buy and listen to music over the past few years. In 2007, sales of CD albums fell by 10 per cent, while the number of tracks downloaded from the internet rose by more than a third.
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Neil Young, Where Politics and Technology Meet
NY Times - At 62, Mr. Young still wants to change the world, and he seems to embrace the contradictions of his persona. Staying at the swank Carlyle Hotel on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, he was interviewed with two signed Picasso prints over his shoulder, but his plain shirt and rumpled khaki pants were spattered with paint.
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‘An Obsessive Compulsion towards the Spectacular’
Spiegel - Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas talks about new trends in architecture and urban development, the end of the European city, the rise of Dubai, Russia and China, the obsession with XXXL and the difference between the people who design buildings for a living and “star architects.”
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Pauline Kael & trash cinema
National Post, by Robert Fulford - Not long before she died, Pauline Kael remarked to a friend, “When we championed trash culture we had no idea it would become the only culture.” Who did?
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The luxurious growth
IHT, by David Brooks - For a time, it seemed as if we were about to use the bright beam of science to illuminate the murky world of human action. Instead, as Turkheimer writes in his chapter in the book, “Wrestling With Behavioral Genetics,” science finds itself enmeshed with social science and the humanities in what researchers call the Gloomy Prospect, the ineffable mystery of why people do what they do.
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Friction over Fan Fiction
LRC - Fan fiction? It’s no secret that J. K. Rowling has a tremendous following. Unknown to most people, however, is the burgeoning online community of Harry Potter fans who amuse themselves by writing their own stories set in Rowling’s fictional world. And the phenomenon is hardly confined to Hogwarts.
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It’s Only a Joke. Or Is It?
WS Journal - Old-fashioned joke-telling, done face to face, is a species of performance art, in which intonation, timing and often the use of foreign accents are decisive. You can’t do a parrot with a Yiddish accent joke
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Identity is That Which is Given
butterfliesandwheels.com, by Kenan Malik - A century ago intellectuals worried about the degeneration of the race. Today we fear cultural decay. Is the notion of cultural decay any more coherent than that of racial degeneration? Cultures certainly change and develop. But what does it mean for a culture to decay? Or for an identity to be lost?
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