Happy Labor Day!
I spent mine mostly reading Kaleidotrope submissions, plus watching last night’s Breaking Bad episode and A Bug’s Life (which I’ve had out from Netflix for way too long.)
That’s it, really. Hope you had a nice day off!
Day: September 3, 2012
Song of the day
“Mr. President (Have Pity on the Working Man)” by Randy Newman
Monday various
- Here’s a question: Who inherits your iTunes library? Maybe a follow-up to that: would you want someone to inherit it?
There’s a significant difference between shelves of books or stacks of records and folders of e-books or mp3s. There’s no re-sell value to the latter, for instance, either because of the difficulties of transferring the files or because of restrictions inherent in the licensing agreements we sign. So the only reason to bequeath your digital media is if you feel the person receiving it in your will actually will want it.
- Ass-whooping on NPR.
- In other news, they were still printing Nintendo Power Magazine?
- Writing credits in documentaries: apparently a bigger issue than you might think.
- And finally, Space Stallions!
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