Hippo, birdies, two ewes...

... to jcbemis, zencuppa, and grendies!!! Have a great one!!

Done yesterday (20090805)

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On the whole a very good day, albeit a busy one. Good progress on the demo at work (which is a damned good thing considering that it's this afternoon!), a walk, two calls to Callie because she called me back from the first one as I was starting to get busy with debugging, and an order for the new Woody Guthrie CD set.

A bit of link sausage:

The Details Behind Amanda Palmer's Amazing Impromptu Music Video -- a music video conceived and filmed in 20 minutes at a gig on the beach advertised via twitter. Hmm.

A chart showing music sales from 1973-2008, by medium. The CD's rise and LP's fall track pretty well; the CD's peak year was 1999, and its decline seems to be particularly rapid. I'm not sure I entirely believe the numbers, since they come from the RIAA and so probably don't include the indie labels. But it's clear that CDs started their decline a couple of years before downloads came on the scene.

The Death Of Paid WiFi -- welcome news indeed. About the only places you still have to pay for it are some hotels and airports.

And, from this post by filkerdave, A trove of Woody Guthrie gems are brought to light -- the metal masters of the defunct label Stinson Records, stored in cardboard barrels in an old lady's basement. A 4 CD set is nowavailable for pre-order from Rounder Records. Yes, I've ordered it. The price and the packaging are both a little over-the-top, but...