“Digital music files just don’t provide the same amount of content that a CD package does. That includes liner notes, extended album art and lyrics. Buy a digital album today and all you get are a list of tracks and (maybe) a thumbnail image of the album cover that you can’t even read.”
Tag: 12.31.07
What Do Philosophers Talk ABout When They Get Together?
“Two presentations outlined how computer software could change the way philosophy is both taught and disseminated. One professor discussed how artificial intelligence can help to improve individualized instruction, while another laid out a radical framework for online publication that would leave most of today’s academic press apparatus in the dust.”
This Is The Year We’ll Create Life In The Lab
“The cobbling together of life from synthetic DNA, scientists and philosophers agree, will be a watershed event, blurring the line between biological and artificial – and forcing a rethinking of what it means to be alive. This raises a range of big questions about what nature is and what it could be. Evolutionary processes are no longer seen as sacred or inviolable.”
The Best-Selling Classical Album Of The 21st Century Is:
A breakthrough album from classical singer Hayley Westenra has been named the UK’s biggest-selling classical album of the 21st century so far. The New Zealand-born singer, now 20, released her third album Pure when she was 15.
Study: Mac Users Listen To More Music
“In the third quarter of 2007, exactly half of Mac owners paid to download music at least once, while only 16 percent of PC owners did. In part, the disparity reflects the ways Apple Macintosh and PC owners use their computers: Mac owners are more likely to listen to music on their computers and to upload music to digital music players.”
The Ideal Librarian?
“For many writers, in short, he serves as their Virgil of the New York Public Library, guiding innocents and counseling the wise alike as he leads them gently away from error and toward intellectual enlightenment.”
JK Rowling Hints At Another “Harry” Book
“If, and it’s a big if, I ever write an eighth book about the [wizarding] world, I doubt that Harry would be the central character. “I feel I’ve already told his story. But these are big ifs. Let’s give it 10 years.”
Cavendish: Where Are UK’s Conservative Plays?
Dominic Cavendish writes that few of today’s plays challenge the Left-liberal consensus. “Is there a tacit complicity between many of today’s writers and the liberal establishment? Is the ‘liberal consensus’ and the fear of appearing Right-wing hobbling the urge to conduct tough, awkward public debates?”