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...riffing on Cyberpunk Fiction , a parody of the Pulp Fiction soundtrack. (I'm going from memory here, it's been a while since I've heard it... but it's also probably a fitting tribute, since without Bob, none of the following suggenres would have existed...)

"Y'know what they call industrial music over there? Electro Body Music!"
"Electro Body Music? What do they call techno?"
"Well, techno's techno. Except in Paris they call it 'le techno'."
"What do they call house?"
"I don't know, I don't listen to that shit. But you know what put on drums in Holland?"
"What?"
"Flange."
"Goddamn!"
"They fuckin' bury 'em in it..."

The first track of the album album also features a bit of dialog that, by itself, is worth the price of the entire album:

"All right, everybody, be COOL! I'm your new SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR!"
"Any of you fucking Ewoks move and I'll terminate every last motherfucking job on the mainframe!"

Interesting species.

Unfortunately this isnt a problem with the mastering engineers. Its more that the producer says to heck with the dynamic range, this album must be the loudest ever and if the engineer wants to get more work he pretty much has to listen.
Mixerman's Journal [ink19.com] is an amusing look into the world of a professional mixing/mastering engineer.

And a lone paperclipman is going to destroy our freedoms?

Do you mean this obnoxious fellow?

A dumb out-of-work actor gets caught letting his copy of a screener be the one that gets onto the 'net. I wouldn't call this a setback, I'd call this proof that this idea works.

Holy jumping to conclusions batman!

...and stupid ones too. Like this 69 year old being responsible for his copy getting on the net.

For once, a copy-protection technology that I don't think anybody can argue with...

...and not suprisingly, you sound like the type of person with whom it is not worth arguing.

As we all know, no one ever distributes videos which belong to celebrities without their permission.

That book is FUNNIER THAN HELL!!!

Among other things, I'm an occasional book reviewer for Paladin Press, the folks who published Lyle's hilarious (and exceptionally well-illustated) book.

A month or two ago I submitted my review of that book to Slashdot, but it was rejected for whatever reason (I average about one in six accepted story submissions to the editors and don't question why they may have rejected a particular item. They have a job to do and it's not my job to give them any grief over them doing their job the way they see fit.) and didn't show up here.

That said, you can go here if you'd like to read that review, which showed up as one of my Ink19 Inconvenience Store columns. Can't know if you'll find it the least bit interesting or funny, but oh well. It's no longer in my hands, eh?

If you haven't read Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie, I HIGHLY recommend that you do so. Great stuff!

This just about says it all

I'm sure the guys in Grand Moff Tarkin will be retrofitting their gear with 'em.