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I am just stunned. I realize the majority of people here are probably monolingual and probably living in North America, but the majority of posts here seem to be along the lines of "Well it doesn't affect me, so who gives a f**k?" or "If they are dying out, they are just cruft". At least some people see the value in everyone having a common language - but thats the best argument for everyone to learn a SECOND language, not for us to just abandon all of the smaller languages out there.

You see, a lot of those languages are dying out because the speakers of the more monolithic languages have forced them into extinction. We have made speaking many Native American languages illegal in the past, abused the cultures and people involved and slowly strangled their native language speaking populations to the point where they have all died off or are doing so daily. We have marginalized many small linguistic groups by the overwhelming power of Western culture and advertising, by refusing to learn their languages and insisting they learn ours or suffer the consequences. Thats a tragedy, nothing less.

Each language is more than just a medium of communications between people, its the encapsulation of an entire way of thinking, of a cultural world-view. When a language dies out, a small piece of humanity and human achievement goes with it. We are all lessened by the death of each language, and with it each culture that dies out.

I would think the programmers here would be the first to get it: You can program some things in certain programming languages, express some concepts, much more effectively and efficiently than in others. You can do anything in any language certainly, but some lean one way or another, some are more expressive and some more rigidly defined. Luckily we rarely lose a programming language, they just go out of style for the majority of users, but as long as someone is willing to write a compiler, we can keep using one. That is not true of human languages. Once they are gone, they are gone completely, and with them a unique way of thinking, and a unique way of viewing the world and expressing ideas about it. Languages quite honestly give you a completely different way of thinking and its a shame to lose that.

New languages effectively don't happen, or at best rarely and I imagine its almost impossible for a new language to evolve in the modern day. Human linguistic evolution is essentially a living version of the Highlander maxim "there can be only one", or at best maybe 2. It doesn't have to be inevitable though, we can preserve dying languages, and with them the cultures they belong to. It just takes more effort than most people are willing to engage in, and sadly - like the majority of posters here - it doesn't seem to worry those who speak the major languages, particularly the world's piranha of a language English.

no one is killing people and in modern times no one is outlawing things

It is true that most language loss at present is due to cultural and economic pressure rather than force, but it is not true that "no one is killing people" and it is not true that "in modern times no one is outlawing things". One of the causes of linguistic and cultural loss in the Amazon is the extermination of Indians by rubber planters and other farmers who want their land. Some small tribes have been wiped out by slavers. The slavers, of course, don't intend to kill everyone, but they kill some in capturing the others, many others die in slavery, and those slaves who stay alive do not pass on their language and culture. Other areas in which genocide is affecting small cultures include the southern and Darfur regions of Sudan, parts of Ethiopia, and parts of Burma.

As for outlawing languages, one prominent example is Kurdish, which it was illegal to speak or teach in Turkey until last year, when the Turkish government finally succumbed to pressure from the European Union, which it wants to join. Even so, the Turkish government continues to repress Kurdish. Kurdish is also repressed by Iran.

Furthermore, to interfere with minority languages you don't have to ban them completely. If you send the kids to boarding schools and forbid them to speak their own language, you damage the transmission of the language. This was a very common practice until quite recently (in some places it ended only ten or twenty years ago), and in some places it continues to this day.

For anyone interested in this area, I strongly recommend Tove Skutnabb-Kangas' book Linguistic Genocide in Education or Worldwide Diversity and Human Rights?.

Holy crap, I get what you mean. Here and here are torrents for the Reset song, the other one can be found here and here.

This would be a great time for a new edition of this book.

*taps foot impatiently* (but not in the manner of Sen. Larry Craig)

Try their FAQ. It is frustratingly difficult to get to, I admit.

I'm a Mac fanboy who is saving his pennies for an iPhone. I like the iTunes Store, but Amazon has a few advantages.

1. It's web-based. A friend can email me a URL to a song which I can then buy. Supposedly the same can be done in iTunes, but I don't know how to create such a URL. This is phenomenal.

2. Search is better on Amazon. You can specify song, artist, or album title. In iTunes, it's just one search keyword for all three possible columns. Then you get back a bunch of irrelevant crap to wade through by changing the sort order of the columns.

3. Perhaps the selection is better for more obscure stuff. I've been looking for this song they play on Sirius radio's Boombox channel- 'Deep' by TC featuring MC Jakes. My searches on iTunes has been fruitless. On Amazon I found it right away and now I'm about to buy it.

The iTunes DRM stuff has never bugged me in the least. Easier access to stuff has been an annoyance, though, and the above three reasons are great leaps by Amazon over iTunes.

Seth

They do say right up front that they're working on a linux version.

I bought a couple of single tracks already (I'm a linux user, too), and it worked great. I look forward to being able to buy full albums. They actually have lots of major label tracks, unlike my experience with eMusic.

Oh come on now.

1. They are working on a Linux version of the downloader as we speak.
2. In the meantime, reports are that the Windows version of the downloader runs fine under Wine. And the only thing you need the downloader for is for full albums, Linux users can buy singles today straight from their browser, no downloader required.

With this offering, Amazon has done more to make Linux a first-class citizen in the online music space than maybe any other company to date. That's hardly "lock[ing] out Linux users."

There's no Talking Heads either. Blame the label, I suppose. On the other hand, they had the newly-released obscure Belgian album I wanted, for $1 cheaper than iTunes.

A simple example of this. Compare the Ten Commandments and how simple and clear they are. Now compare the human laws covering the same situations.

If everyone wanted to be governed by laws? Then the world wouldn't have the problems and inefficiencies it does.

Except a vast, vast, vast majority of the population doesn't buy vinyl anymore (namely because they don't have anything to play it on, and you would need a Hummer to get the dash space to play it in your car)

By the way, anyone notice that the #1 song on AmazonMP3 is 1234 by Feist. You will never guess who uses that song to promote the new version of their rarely heard of product ;-)

But to make new companies it takes experience and a business plan. Enter the bean counters. And the bean counters now control the playing field.

Speaking as a two-time — soon to be three-time — entrepreneur, there's a mix of internal and external factors at play here.

External factors, like America's sue-happy society and mountains of regulation, can't readily be addressed by any individual firm or college program. We can only hope that enough individual firms and college programs take root that, over time, society's attitudes can change and these problems will shrink.

Internally, though, engineering entrepreneurs can readily avoid bean counters (or attorneys) interfering with business operations...if the entrepreneurs are willing to set some limits. Some of those limits will be for the bean counters and attorneys: hire ones with the proper attitude, give them marching orders for how to best support an innovative firm in their roles, reward those who follow through, and fire the sorry asses of those who don't. Some of those limits will be for the entrepreneur itself, such as not taking on financing (e.g., venture capital) that come with un-controlled bean counters and attorneys attached. While that latter limitation will seem to some to be a show-stopper, understand that an engineering entrepreneur needs to not only engineer technical solutions to meet their vision, but also engineer business models and structures to meet that same vision. For an example, read The Great Game of Business and A Stake in the Outcome by Jack Stack and Bo Burlingham.

But to make new companies it takes experience and a business plan. Enter the bean counters. And the bean counters now control the playing field.

Speaking as a two-time — soon to be three-time — entrepreneur, there's a mix of internal and external factors at play here.

External factors, like America's sue-happy society and mountains of regulation, can't readily be addressed by any individual firm or college program. We can only hope that enough individual firms and college programs take root that, over time, society's attitudes can change and these problems will shrink.

Internally, though, engineering entrepreneurs can readily avoid bean counters (or attorneys) interfering with business operations...if the entrepreneurs are willing to set some limits. Some of those limits will be for the bean counters and attorneys: hire ones with the proper attitude, give them marching orders for how to best support an innovative firm in their roles, reward those who follow through, and fire the sorry asses of those who don't. Some of those limits will be for the entrepreneur itself, such as not taking on financing (e.g., venture capital) that come with un-controlled bean counters and attorneys attached. While that latter limitation will seem to some to be a show-stopper, understand that an engineering entrepreneur needs to not only engineer technical solutions to meet their vision, but also engineer business models and structures to meet that same vision. For an example, read The Great Game of Business and A Stake in the Outcome by Jack Stack and Bo Burlingham.

Theme Tune has to be Busta Rhymes - Turn It Up/Fire It Up.

If this occurred, the culpability is with the employees, IF they were healthcare professionals bound by HIPAA constraints. IF these employees were janitors, food service workers, or the like, the culpability would be on the hospital for failure to develop and utilize effective procedures for securing confidential information. In any event, the person who receives this information, the blogger in this case, is not bound by any law except his own good judgment.

The other means by which the blogger could have seen patient records is if a patient requested a copy of their records and then shared it with the blogger, or with someone who passed it to the blogger.

Essent Healthcare has, or is supposed to have, an effective method for identifying and closing its security leaks. The existence of this lawsuit demonstrates on several levels that they are incompetent at hospital management: they have no conception of the issues that are involved. They should take their Swim with the Sharks skills back to selling envelopes, where the important things of marketing and capitalistic pursuits are not going to be polluted by matters of professional conduct, altruism, etc.

It is the year of multi platform.

Look to Amazon top 10 list of software
http://amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/software

That "Apple" you see counts as Unix, very similar system calls to FreeBSD with Mach running deep level. Count OpenGL too. It won't be like "release a WHQL driver with direct3d tweaks and let them be happy" scene for home anymore. It is _not_ already. I hope Corel etc guys are seeing that list and wondering why they aren't there.

Eventually companies making hardware will figure how stupid they are by not downloading a XCode to a cheap iMac and release a driver (it is all needed) and same time, they will say "hey, we have similar code, lets start Linux development,it is all open and documented".

The "Desktop environment" is your advantage. Window Maker is there, not so popular but it has one little spec: Open(Gnu)Step. There are already tools releasing exact same time on OS X and GnuStep such as GNU Mail.

It will be very interesting soon.

I also don't know how to use a Flintlock rifle

That's pretty 18th century. You need to pick up the pace a bit.

trap/clean/spit roast a hare

Again, you're a couple of centuries out of date. Get with the program here.

catch a fish with my bare hands

Alfred Nobel has the thing for you.

hitch a wagon to a horse

You actually do it the other way around (horse to wagon) - the horse is considered easier to move than the wagon, although in your case, given your apparent lake of experience with the things, I'll reserve judgment.)

build/make/use a butter churn

What part of the phrase "Google it" don't you understand?

And just so I said it, I am not affiliated with the author or publisher in any way. I just like the book.

I think that Amazon MP3 may be the best online music store out there right now. It beats iTunes on price most of the time (if you only count iTunes-Plus), and it's DRM-free selection is better (due largely Universal's inclusion). But it does have it's warts:

The Semi-required Downloader. Amazon allows users to download single tracks via plain old http, but requires the use of their download-manager to buy albums (which are generally cheaper then buying the individual tracks, and are the only way to purchase some items such as Radiohead's works). This sucks for anyone on an alternative platform (mainstream x86-linux users will supposedly get a port of the downloader eventually, but the rest of us will remain out of luck).

Watermarking. Amazon has admitted that some of their MP3s are watermarked (with the company it was purchased from and the the time of purchase). They claim that there is no personally identifying information in the file, but if the watermark is encrypted or the watermarking scheme is unknown that claim cannot be verified. (for comparison, iTunes-Plus DRM-free songs are not watermarked, but do contain the purchaser's Apple-id (generally an email address) in a plain-text tag (which, unlike a watermark, can be easily examined or removed and does not affect sound quality)).

Universal's anticompetitive tactics. Universal has basically said that, at least for the next several months, they will sell DRM-free music to anyone but Apple. Basically they've decided that a free market where consumers can pick the store they like is too dangerous, so they're going to use their monopoly on certain music to artificially undermine their most popular distributor rather than just selling DRM-free music to anyone who will pay and letting the market decide.

And one thing that isn't really a problem at the moment, but seems likely to become one eventually is:

Variable Pricing. Prices range from good (45cents), to standard (89-99cents), to insane ($14.51 for one 2minute track).
Searching for all songs and sorting by price, you can see that only about ~15000 of their tracks are more than $1.35 and only about ~7500 track are less than $.88, so most of their 2.3 million songs fall near the 'standard' range. And searching for some random nonsense and sampling the results makes it look like roughly half of the store is $.99 or more, while the other half is less. So for right now, variable pricing doesn't seem too onerous, but if the big labels do manage to take a real bite out of Apple's market share with DRM-free sales through stores other than iTunes, and no longer feel the need to undercut Apple's fixed pricing, I expect those variable prices to rise gradually, almost imperceptibly given the confusion of multiple price points, and unstoppably.

Check out the distribution on this utter garbage:

http://www.amazon.com/What-Bleep-Know-Discovering-Possibilities/dp/0757305628/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3/002-2908185-7396820?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190857645&sr=8-3

11 one stars, 36 5 stars. I have seen this DVD and it is literally propagandist pseudo science put out by a cult for recruitment. Check into it on Google. Yet it has a pretty stellar rating on Amazon.

The author of the book in this review is supposedly a member of the John Birch society, real wackos. It's likely propaganda for their organization.

Kind Regards

The parent post's link is pre-selected to contain ONLY the 1-star reviews. That is not the regular distribution of reviews on Amazon for this book. In the general distribution it appears to be a generally well-liked book with minor controversy (as one would expect).

(Disclaimer: I have not read the book.)

Agreed, but there lack of thought makes for some good deals to be had if you hunt around before they normalize the pricing in a more sensible way.

Case in point: Wagner's entire Ring Cycle (14 discs) for $13.98
http://www.amazon.com/Der-Ring-der-Nibelungen/dp/B000QZSUYW/ref=sr_1_12/102-0259559-1788957?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1190848521&sr=1-12

Admittedly not the best recording out there, but also not the worst (check the Amazon reviews...), and for $14 an affordable entry to the Ring Cycle.

You can pay only with debit cards and credit cards. So, too bad if you have any money in a GC; guess you'll be buying something else with it. Like, maybe an iTunes Music Card? Heh.

Check this out:
Nightwish - End of an Era

If you want 'Ghost Love Score' (which is the best piece on the album and the one song I actually wanted), you're forced to buy the entire album. "Now you don't need to buy the entire album for one song", they said.

So much for the "buy only the song you want" bit. They deliberately prevent you from buying the best songs seperately.

What they really meant was "Now you don't need to buy the entire album if you're just looking to buy the song you don't want". Yay! Go Amazon!

> [...] you agree that you will not redistribute, transmit, assign, sell, broadcast, rent, share,
> lend, modify, adapt, edit, sub-license or otherwise transfer or use the Digital Content. [...]

I found one that refutes that thought, unfortunately:

Brian Eno - Thursday Afternoon

It's not "elitist fuckery", it's a combination of good equipment, an original source recording of high quality, and perhaps better-than-average hearing. I've had this argument many times, and there are some recordings that reveal obvious flaws in even 320 kbps CBR mp3 to my ears with my headphones and amplifier. For 95% of what I listen to, the difference is minimal or nonexistant, but for the other perhaps 5% of my music library, I do find FLAC (or the original CD) more enjoyable. Somewhat tangentially to this point, the Amazon mp3s don't cost much less than the full album (when we factor in production costs of the physical CD, shipping, etc). For example, I'm looking at one recording in particular where I can discern a difference between FLAC and high bitrate mp3 - Morten Lauridsen's O Magnum Mysterium . It's $14.99 for the CD but $8.99 for the mp3s. I personally don't see the value proposition of paying $6 less to receive no physical item and a digital item of lower quality than I would receive for paying slightly more. Sure there are countless examples where I do see the value, but not this one.

It seems to me that if the only issue is whether tracks are licensed for individual sale or not, they could probably solve that by offering the album as, say, a ZIP archive containing the album tracks. If a track is only available on an album, and not individually, then you only put it in the ZIP.

Heck, for all we know, maybe an .amz file is just a zip archive, just with a different extension so that it'll open with the Amazon Downloader and automatically extract itself.

Granted, there probably aren't a lot of them, but it looks like an album with one very long track only costs the price of one track.

Only for single tracks, not for albums. From both TFA and TFFAQ,

[Q:] Do I need to install the Amazon MP3 Downloader to buy music?

[A:]The Amazon MP3 Downloader application is required for album purchases but is not required for purchasing songs.

WTF? That's a weird restriction.

Linux users can download tracks, but not albums, and Amazon is porting this "download manager" thingy to Linux.

That immediately rang my spyware warning bell, but the FAQ page offers one non-evil clue:

[Q:] Why is the availability of some songs and albums different from the CD version?

[A:] Record companies do not always have the rights to sell all the songs on a CD individually. This may be at the request of the artist or due to other contractual reasons. Additionally, digital versions of an album can sometimes contain bonus tracks not available on the CD, and sometimes the CD has tracks not available on the digital version. Record companies control what tracks are made available on specific formats, and Amazon MP3 will offer all tracks made available for sale.

If all the "downloader" does is verify that the licensing requirement of "album downloads entail a download of every track on the album" is met, that's reasonable.

But it's still such a weird and artificial restriction that while spidey-spyware-detector may not have pegged itself into the redline, it's still firmly into the yellow.

This isn't about individually serialized/watermarked files. First off, I've got no problem with serialized MP3s -- we're not supposed to be sharing the files we download from the service in the first place. But if (and that's an if) Amazon's taking the serialization approach, the serials can be embedded just as easily from the server at the time of download.

All of which makes me wonder just what, precisely, this "download manager" actually does. Amazon's making a damn good offer here: the music I want, in the format in which I want it, at a fair dollar price. But this "download manager" needs a wee bit more technical info before I sign up. Not every cost is measurable in dollars.

Only for single tracks, not for albums. From both TFA and TFFAQ,

[Q:] Do I need to install the Amazon MP3 Downloader to buy music?

[A:]The Amazon MP3 Downloader application is required for album purchases but is not required for purchasing songs.

WTF? That's a weird restriction.

Linux users can download tracks, but not albums, and Amazon is porting this "download manager" thingy to Linux.

That immediately rang my spyware warning bell, but the FAQ page offers one non-evil clue:

[Q:] Why is the availability of some songs and albums different from the CD version?

[A:] Record companies do not always have the rights to sell all the songs on a CD individually. This may be at the request of the artist or due to other contractual reasons. Additionally, digital versions of an album can sometimes contain bonus tracks not available on the CD, and sometimes the CD has tracks not available on the digital version. Record companies control what tracks are made available on specific formats, and Amazon MP3 will offer all tracks made available for sale.

If all the "downloader" does is verify that the licensing requirement of "album downloads entail a download of every track on the album" is met, that's reasonable.

But it's still such a weird and artificial restriction that while spidey-spyware-detector may not have pegged itself into the redline, it's still firmly into the yellow.

This isn't about individually serialized/watermarked files. First off, I've got no problem with serialized MP3s -- we're not supposed to be sharing the files we download from the service in the first place. But if (and that's an if) Amazon's taking the serialization approach, the serials can be embedded just as easily from the server at the time of download.

All of which makes me wonder just what, precisely, this "download manager" actually does. Amazon's making a damn good offer here: the music I want, in the format in which I want it, at a fair dollar price. But this "download manager" needs a wee bit more technical info before I sign up. Not every cost is measurable in dollars.

Only for single tracks, not for albums. From both TFA and TFFAQ,

[Q:] Do I need to install the Amazon MP3 Downloader to buy music?

[A:]The Amazon MP3 Downloader application is required for album purchases but is not required for purchasing songs.

WTF? That's a weird restriction.

Linux users can download tracks, but not albums, and Amazon is porting this "download manager" thingy to Linux.

That immediately rang my spyware warning bell, but the FAQ page offers one non-evil clue:

[Q:] Why is the availability of some songs and albums different from the CD version?

[A:] Record companies do not always have the rights to sell all the songs on a CD individually. This may be at the request of the artist or due to other contractual reasons. Additionally, digital versions of an album can sometimes contain bonus tracks not available on the CD, and sometimes the CD has tracks not available on the digital version. Record companies control what tracks are made available on specific formats, and Amazon MP3 will offer all tracks made available for sale.

If all the "downloader" does is verify that the licensing requirement of "album downloads entail a download of every track on the album" is met, that's reasonable.

But it's still such a weird and artificial restriction that while spidey-spyware-detector may not have pegged itself into the redline, it's still firmly into the yellow.

This isn't about individually serialized/watermarked files. First off, I've got no problem with serialized MP3s -- we're not supposed to be sharing the files we download from the service in the first place. But if (and that's an if) Amazon's taking the serialization approach, the serials can be embedded just as easily from the server at the time of download.

All of which makes me wonder just what, precisely, this "download manager" actually does. Amazon's making a damn good offer here: the music I want, in the format in which I want it, at a fair dollar price. But this "download manager" needs a wee bit more technical info before I sign up. Not every cost is measurable in dollars.

There are plenty. Many people do not consider this book to be a balanced discussion of the subject matter at hand. This type of controversy should be mentioned in any prominent book review.

http://www.amazon.com/Making-Money-Discworld-Novels-Pratchett/dp/0061161640/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-1901449-4836442?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190836803&sr=8-1

and you won't fall asleep reading it.

Speaking of UPS, what happened to the idea that express parcel companies would be major forces behind private space exploration? In Michael Flynn's novel Firestar FedEx is one of the first companies to buy private spacecraft because it sees major profits in being able to deliver anywhere on Earth in just a couple of hours. But when you read about private space ventures here on Slashdot, parcel companies don't play any sort of role.

Only once, it's in the documentation: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200154210&#copy

I was on the phone with support for over an hour working out that one... :(

Along this line, does anybody seem some unknown band on this service that I and other readers of Slashdot should listen too?

I'll introduce the next one with a Smog songtext:
I never thought I'd be / one of those men / with pin-ups on the wall / for all to see
Bongwater.

What if Björk was half-indian and made songs with her half-sister that was double as weird? CocoRosie.

Electronics do not get any dirtier than the greasy dub of Burial on Amazon. Tried to find Pan Sonic, Machinefabriek, Deathprod, but they were not there...

And now for something completely different: Falak: The Voice of Destiny. Great CD for ethnic music lovers, consisting of two parts: one traditional, and one pop. The fun thing is that the pop performers are for a great deal the same performers as on the traditional part under a differnet name.

Even more ethnic and even more rhythmic: The Music Of Islam, Vol. 2: Music Of The South Sinai Bedouins. There's one song on this album that is a farewell song, that was recorded on the stairs of the airplane that brought the recording engineer home.

And some pseudo-ethnic pseudo-political stuff, the very British Muslimgauze. Don't play this when boarding a plane, or you'll end up in Guatanomo Bay.

Who needs white, pink or grey noise when you've got sine-tones? Here comes Ryoji Ikeda and his dataplex. Worth the listen for the track names alone.

Along this line, does anybody seem some unknown band on this service that I and other readers of Slashdot should listen too?

I'll introduce the next one with a Smog songtext:
I never thought I'd be / one of those men / with pin-ups on the wall / for all to see
Bongwater.

What if Björk was half-indian and made songs with her half-sister that was double as weird? CocoRosie.

Electronics do not get any dirtier than the greasy dub of Burial on Amazon. Tried to find Pan Sonic, Machinefabriek, Deathprod, but they were not there...

And now for something completely different: Falak: The Voice of Destiny. Great CD for ethnic music lovers, consisting of two parts: one traditional, and one pop. The fun thing is that the pop performers are for a great deal the same performers as on the traditional part under a differnet name.

Even more ethnic and even more rhythmic: The Music Of Islam, Vol. 2: Music Of The South Sinai Bedouins. There's one song on this album that is a farewell song, that was recorded on the stairs of the airplane that brought the recording engineer home.

And some pseudo-ethnic pseudo-political stuff, the very British Muslimgauze. Don't play this when boarding a plane, or you'll end up in Guatanomo Bay.

Who needs white, pink or grey noise when you've got sine-tones? Here comes Ryoji Ikeda and his dataplex. Worth the listen for the track names alone.

Along this line, does anybody seem some unknown band on this service that I and other readers of Slashdot should listen too?

I'll introduce the next one with a Smog songtext:
I never thought I'd be / one of those men / with pin-ups on the wall / for all to see
Bongwater.

What if Björk was half-indian and made songs with her half-sister that was double as weird? CocoRosie.

Electronics do not get any dirtier than the greasy dub of Burial on Amazon. Tried to find Pan Sonic, Machinefabriek, Deathprod, but they were not there...

And now for something completely different: Falak: The Voice of Destiny. Great CD for ethnic music lovers, consisting of two parts: one traditional, and one pop. The fun thing is that the pop performers are for a great deal the same performers as on the traditional part under a differnet name.

Even more ethnic and even more rhythmic: The Music Of Islam, Vol. 2: Music Of The South Sinai Bedouins. There's one song on this album that is a farewell song, that was recorded on the stairs of the airplane that brought the recording engineer home.

And some pseudo-ethnic pseudo-political stuff, the very British Muslimgauze. Don't play this when boarding a plane, or you'll end up in Guatanomo Bay.

Who needs white, pink or grey noise when you've got sine-tones? Here comes Ryoji Ikeda and his dataplex. Worth the listen for the track names alone.

Along this line, does anybody seem some unknown band on this service that I and other readers of Slashdot should listen too?

I'll introduce the next one with a Smog songtext:
I never thought I'd be / one of those men / with pin-ups on the wall / for all to see
Bongwater.

What if Björk was half-indian and made songs with her half-sister that was double as weird? CocoRosie.

Electronics do not get any dirtier than the greasy dub of Burial on Amazon. Tried to find Pan Sonic, Machinefabriek, Deathprod, but they were not there...

And now for something completely different: Falak: The Voice of Destiny. Great CD for ethnic music lovers, consisting of two parts: one traditional, and one pop. The fun thing is that the pop performers are for a great deal the same performers as on the traditional part under a differnet name.

Even more ethnic and even more rhythmic: The Music Of Islam, Vol. 2: Music Of The South Sinai Bedouins. There's one song on this album that is a farewell song, that was recorded on the stairs of the airplane that brought the recording engineer home.

And some pseudo-ethnic pseudo-political stuff, the very British Muslimgauze. Don't play this when boarding a plane, or you'll end up in Guatanomo Bay.

Who needs white, pink or grey noise when you've got sine-tones? Here comes Ryoji Ikeda and his dataplex. Worth the listen for the track names alone.

Along this line, does anybody seem some unknown band on this service that I and other readers of Slashdot should listen too?

I'll introduce the next one with a Smog songtext:
I never thought I'd be / one of those men / with pin-ups on the wall / for all to see
Bongwater.

What if Björk was half-indian and made songs with her half-sister that was double as weird? CocoRosie.

Electronics do not get any dirtier than the greasy dub of Burial on Amazon. Tried to find Pan Sonic, Machinefabriek, Deathprod, but they were not there...

And now for something completely different: Falak: The Voice of Destiny. Great CD for ethnic music lovers, consisting of two parts: one traditional, and one pop. The fun thing is that the pop performers are for a great deal the same performers as on the traditional part under a differnet name.

Even more ethnic and even more rhythmic: The Music Of Islam, Vol. 2: Music Of The South Sinai Bedouins. There's one song on this album that is a farewell song, that was recorded on the stairs of the airplane that brought the recording engineer home.

And some pseudo-ethnic pseudo-political stuff, the very British Muslimgauze. Don't play this when boarding a plane, or you'll end up in Guatanomo Bay.

Who needs white, pink or grey noise when you've got sine-tones? Here comes Ryoji Ikeda and his dataplex. Worth the listen for the track names alone.

Along this line, does anybody seem some unknown band on this service that I and other readers of Slashdot should listen too?

I'll introduce the next one with a Smog songtext:
I never thought I'd be / one of those men / with pin-ups on the wall / for all to see
Bongwater.

What if Björk was half-indian and made songs with her half-sister that was double as weird? CocoRosie.

Electronics do not get any dirtier than the greasy dub of Burial on Amazon. Tried to find Pan Sonic, Machinefabriek, Deathprod, but they were not there...

And now for something completely different: Falak: The Voice of Destiny. Great CD for ethnic music lovers, consisting of two parts: one traditional, and one pop. The fun thing is that the pop performers are for a great deal the same performers as on the traditional part under a differnet name.

Even more ethnic and even more rhythmic: The Music Of Islam, Vol. 2: Music Of The South Sinai Bedouins. There's one song on this album that is a farewell song, that was recorded on the stairs of the airplane that brought the recording engineer home.

And some pseudo-ethnic pseudo-political stuff, the very British Muslimgauze. Don't play this when boarding a plane, or you'll end up in Guatanomo Bay.

Who needs white, pink or grey noise when you've got sine-tones? Here comes Ryoji Ikeda and his dataplex. Worth the listen for the track names alone.

Along this line, does anybody seem some unknown band on this service that I and other readers of Slashdot should listen too?

I'll introduce the next one with a Smog songtext:
I never thought I'd be / one of those men / with pin-ups on the wall / for all to see
Bongwater.

What if Björk was half-indian and made songs with her half-sister that was double as weird? CocoRosie.

Electronics do not get any dirtier than the greasy dub of Burial on Amazon. Tried to find Pan Sonic, Machinefabriek, Deathprod, but they were not there...

And now for something completely different: Falak: The Voice of Destiny. Great CD for ethnic music lovers, consisting of two parts: one traditional, and one pop. The fun thing is that the pop performers are for a great deal the same performers as on the traditional part under a differnet name.

Even more ethnic and even more rhythmic: The Music Of Islam, Vol. 2: Music Of The South Sinai Bedouins. There's one song on this album that is a farewell song, that was recorded on the stairs of the airplane that brought the recording engineer home.

And some pseudo-ethnic pseudo-political stuff, the very British Muslimgauze. Don't play this when boarding a plane, or you'll end up in Guatanomo Bay.

Who needs white, pink or grey noise when you've got sine-tones? Here comes Ryoji Ikeda and his dataplex. Worth the listen for the track names alone.