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Nine Inch Nails Album Is Free Online

New York Times: "free exists whether you want to acknowledge it or not"

Blu-ray player sales down despite format victory

CNET: "But more likely is what NPD's high-def video analysts have been harping on for a while: that DVD is 'good enough' for most consumers."

Waking up in the morning is so hard because you know the best part of the day is already over

The Editors: "It appears that the rules of journalism for 2008 dictate that discussions of policy and the working of our democracy are completely beyond the pale, an insult to the integrity of the system which keeps us up-to-date on what Obama’s crazy ex-minister recently said, who got attacked by a bear, who got attacked by a shark, where Lindsay Lohan and friends were spotted, and other burning issues of the day."

Gin, Television, and Social Surplus

Here Comes Everybody: "Here's something four-year-olds know: Media that's targeted at you but doesn't include you may not be worth sitting still for. Those are things that make me believe that this is a one-way change. Because four year olds, the people who are soaking most deeply in the current environment, who won't have to go through the trauma that I have to go through of trying to unlearn a childhood spent watching Gilligan's Island, they just assume that media includes consuming, producing and sharing."

Traders' raging hormones cause stock market swings

New Scientist: "'Maybe bubbles and crashes are coming from these steroids,' Coates says. While it may be that less money would be made, 'maybe if more women and older men were trading, the markets would be more stable.'"

Windows is 'collapsing,' Gartner analysts warn

ComputerWorld: I always wonder whose research subscription leads to a report like this.