Posts Tagged ‘random’

Michael Phelps Tribute — Best Athlete in Olympic History

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Michael Phelps is keeping his dream alive to win 8 gold medals in Beijing. Relive the amazing 4×100M relay race from Beijing, and watch other great videos of Phelps. The human fish will go down as the best athlete in Olympic history after the Beijing Olympics. Go Phelps!

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Iggy Pop’s concert rider demands are a brillant read. "We need one (1) monitor man who speaks good English and is not afraid of death."

Friday, May 30th, 2008

When a band goes on tour the creat what is called backline list that lists all of the band equipment, dressing room, and other requirements. This 18 page document is the backline list for Iggy Pop and the Stooges, and it is hilarious. It is written in a rollicking, stream-of-consciousness fashion that delivers multiple laughs per page.

As if you need another reason to love Iggy Pop, the veteran rocker (and his band The Stooges) have the single most entertaining concert rider TSG has ever obtained. The document–all 18 pages of which you'll find…

More Publishers Phase Out DRM on Audio Books

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

The trend will allow consumers who download audio books to freely transfer these digital files between devices like their computers, iPods and cellphones ? and conceivably share them with others. Dropping copying restrictions could also allow a variety of online retailers to start to sell audio book downloads.

Publishers, like the music labels and movie studios, stuck to D.R.M. out of fear that pirated copies would diminish revenue. Random House tested the justification for this fear when it introduced the D.R.M.-less concept with eMusic last fall….