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Give it away now.
Salon article on cd-music seller
FightCloud.com, which gives CDs away "free" but is profitable. How? By charging a $4.95 "shipping fee". Nevertheless, because of the extremely low cost to produce CDs, an estimated $2.64 of that shipping fee is net profit, which is then split 50/50 with the artist. While FightCloud is a small independent company, is this model something that will eventually challenge the big labels to either change or be eclipsed?
posted to MetaFilter by hincandenza
at 4:52 PM on May 23, 2002
(10 comments)
"Only in the case of war, a recession, or a national emergency",
Bush promised during his 2000 campaign, would he ever enter deficit spending. He now repeatedly and rather mordidly jokes that he never imagined that he'd hit the "trifecta" by getting all three- perhaps to explain why we are now experiencing a $100 billion dollar deficit this year. One tiny problem: Bush
never made this supposed campaign promise despite frequently claiming just such as thing, as Jonathan Chait of TNR notes in his recent column. These "special conditions" for deficit spending and depleting the Social Security surplus were spun out of thin air just last summer, and modified post- 9/11, as a necessary escape clause when the budget crunch hit.
posted to MetaFilter by hincandenza
at 12:28 AM on May 13, 2002
(12 comments)
Much Ado About Something.
Fascinating Salon review of a new
documentary investigating whether Shakespeare was really just a front-man for Christopher Marlowe, the true author of all the Bard's work. At first it sounds like just so much literary conspiracy theory, except unlike most conspiracy theories this one seems to gain more credibility the further you delve into it. The film just wrapped up a two- week opening run in New York City, and should be arriving soon at theaters in your area.
posted to MetaFilter by hincandenza
at 12:11 PM on March 2, 2002
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Tales for The L33t presents 'Romeo and Juliet' (flash, ~5min)
Here's a classic of literature presented in new, revised language to reflect these changing times. It's quite possibly the most ineptly produced flash animation I've ever seen- yet I can't say I wasn't rather entertained.
Wildly fluctuating production values, a "soundtrack" that cuts in an out randomly, character animation so bad it
had to be intentional, and dialogue that... well. You really have to see it to believe it.
posted to MetaFilter by hincandenza
at 6:00 PM on February 12, 2002
(20 comments)
Diamondbacks win! Diamondbacks win!
More importantly, the
Yankees lose! Yankees lose! There's something supremely fitting that to win, the Diamondbacks had to come from behind against Mariano Rivera in the bottom of the 9th in Game 7... this is one of the greatest, most intense World Series I've ever seen!
posted to MetaFilter by hincandenza
at 8:27 PM on November 4, 2001
(49 comments)
Tiny Sepuku: Relationship advice column meets "Hello Kitty".
It's funny cuz it's true!!! Tiny Sepuku is Ken Cursoe's brilliant, sometimes bitter, and
always bitingly funny advice column/ comic strip. I became a loyal reader when it was syndicated by the
Seattle Weekly a few months ago, but it seems that Ken has been churning out these nuggets of wry insight, which so perfectly capture the almost comical absurdity of dating in these modern times, since
waaay back in '97. He now has a website where you can indulge yourself in all that archived "Sepuku" goodness...
posted to MetaFilter by hincandenza
at 12:49 AM on November 1, 2001
(8 comments)
"How Bush should spend his windfall of political capital."
Many links have been posted in the past 10 days to cheap political opportunism in the wake of
0.81- but
this takes the cake: an op-ed calling for Bush to
explicitly exploit this tragedy to pass bigger tax cuts, ANWR drilling,
etc. Yep, another sickening WSJ effort; I'm sure the families of the victims will take heart in knowing their loved ones are, in fact, a "
windfall of political capital" for Bush. (
sorry for the two-front-page-posts-in-a-row, btw)
posted to MetaFilter by hincandenza
at 1:36 AM on September 21, 2001
(13 comments)
Ur-Editorial about the attacks,
(
from adequacy.org- I'm not familiar with them- linked via a plastic.com comment). Shades of the Metafilter
self-parody; I found it a handy template for every editorial opportunist from Michael Moore to Ann Coulter- perhaps we can just reference this instead of linking yet more lame, shameful editorials from all parts of the political spectrum?
posted to MetaFilter by hincandenza
at 12:16 PM on September 13, 2001
(4 comments)
As a soon to be minted threehundreddollar-inaire,
I'm one of more than 90 million Americans who has received notice of my tax rebate on the way. But some 32 million Americans are due no tax rebate, and are now receiving notices in the mail to this effect- a letdown that Democrats are trying to capitalize on. Is the tax break going to backfire on Bush and the Republicans... ? << more inside >>
posted to MetaFilter by hincandenza
at 12:43 PM on July 22, 2001
(79 comments)
Jurassic Park III comes out today
and is getting surprisingly good reviews (
I'm going to see it in a couple of hours)! Most seem to have the tone of "
Not great cinema, but a fun popcorn-chomper summer movie". Thank god, because this has been a mostly sucky year at the movies so far...
posted to MetaFilter by hincandenza
at 11:56 AM on July 18, 2001
(41 comments)
New Cautions Over a Plant With a Buzz
- NYT article about
Salvia Divinorum, an apparently legal, unscheduled hallucinogenic plant which is getting increased attention from both drug users and DEA agents. Has anyone actually used this stuff- is it all hype or does it really work? And how long before the DEA works to make it illegal?
posted to MetaFilter by hincandenza
at 2:11 AM on July 12, 2001
(27 comments)
Do internal memos reveal oil refineries engaged in price-fixing?
From Joshua Micah Marshall's Talking Points memo; links to a Paul Krugman NYT op-ed, but far more intriguingly to Sen. Ron Wyden's (D-OR)
webpage, where on June 14th he released his report on alleged price fixing by varied oil refineries based on internal memos and documents of these companies. These types of allegations have been made before, but there is some rather damning language from those internal memos...
posted to MetaFilter by hincandenza
at 7:45 PM on June 28, 2001
(4 comments)
Latest David Horowitz trolling op-ed piece,
this time on gays in the military. With his usual obliviousness to irony, he presumes in this piece that anyone who disagrees with him must be the knee-jerk PC police. Question: does posting a link to a troll constitute trolling in and of itself? Discuss.
posted to MetaFilter by hincandenza
at 4:56 PM on June 25, 2001
(31 comments)
