It’s been four years since The Forms’ highly-acclaimed debut album Icarus was released. It’s been well worth the wait, but for the quartet, making the album was a grueling piece of work that rivaled some movie production schedules with the band spending 50 straight days in the studio. Frontman Alex Tween says it was worth it because “we’re really proud of how it came out.” … Continue reading…The Forms – The Forms (2007)
Apple will finally release its long-awaited successor to its two-year-old operating system code-named Tiger. Lots of fans are probably already waiting in line to be among the first to purchase the DVD. Rumor has it that Apple will be handing out special Leopard t-shirts to the first few hundred guests tomorrow morning. … Continue reading…Apple Mac OS 10.5 Leopard Out Tomorrow
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) would like you to believe that their recent legal victory over Jammie Thomas in the first RIAA copyright infringement lawsuit to ever go to trial will convince every illegal file sharer now to think twice. But the truth is that file sharing (legal or illegal) will forever be a staple in the digital age. … Continue reading…Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, And Madonna: Three More Reasons That Downloading Music Isn’t Going Away
“Shorter was always better; he could cut 15%, he said, from any piece, and was rumoured to be able to get the Lord’s Prayer down to six choice words.” – Jim Michaels’ (former Forbes editor) obituary in The Economist, October 13th-19th 2007. … Continue reading…Jim Michaels On Editing
“One senior executive maintains that innovation simply cannot be defined exactly, but that ‘like pornography I know it when I see it.'” — “A Dark Art No More” from The Economist, October 13th-19th 2007. … Continue reading…Innovation Is Like Porn