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I don't know about a GUI, but if an ugly tileset is your only problem, you could replace it with this one, my personal favorite.

Current Reality claims "Estimated murder rate in the "Wild West" of the US in the late 1800's: 6 per 100,000. Estimated murder rate in the western US in the 1990's: 9 per 100,000." but does not cite a source for this information. Gun Control, Censorship, and Littleton says that "in 19th Century cattle towns, homicide was confined to transient males who shot each other in saloon disturbances. The per capital robbery rate was 7% of modern New York City's. The burglary rate was 1%. Rape was unknown." and cites David Kopel quoted in the Wall Street Journal, February 28, 1994 in "Have Gun, Will Eat Out" (A pro-gun article, so I suppose it is suspect.) That's all I could find in a few minutes using google. I would assume the rate of rape was unknown, since presumably then (as now) most rapes went unreported. Also a cattle town is no bigger than half a flat cow pie, and they're comparing to modern day NYC, which is idiotic. It's not like we're going to all go back to cattle ranching and assorted support industries.

....Not to mention forcing their customers to listen to Fox News Lies in their stores and censoring music (but not movies or violent video games.

yes, but a combination between a slight visual illusion & a pretending game...


http://www.olywa.net/blame/how/how4.htm

i actually bought a pair of these from a gag shop a few years back because i'd been curious... works ok, but obviously not something you'd want to spend money on :)

Now if someone could fully animate the KMFMS logo, I'd *love* to see how this ends!! Kinda like the cover from the greatest punk album of all time, Big Black's "The Hammer Party".

There are many musical formats that get left out, such as say... surf, or hardcore, or mathrock, etc... And that doesn't even TOUCH the formats of crazy experimental bands, like this metal/80's techno video-game adventure band i saw at www.olywa.net/jhealy. Like in American radio, those formats will just fizzle and stay outta-site, outta-mind.

Try a few of these : (notable bands in parenthesis)

Dischord Records : Independent for close to 20 years. (Minor Threat, Slant 6, Nation of Ulysses)
No Idea Records : punk, hardcore, emo (Small Brown Bike, Hot Water Music)
Troubleman Unlimited : post-punk, post-hardcore, post-rock (Camera Obscura, Red Scare)
Jade Tree : all about the emo rock (the Promise Ring, Cap n Jazz, Jets to Brazil)
Lovitt Records : Indie Rock, Emo, some Electronic-tinged (try Milemarker, 400 Years)
K Records : Indie, Folk, Other (Beck, Dub Narcotic Sound System, Sebadoh, IQU, Make-Up)
Kill Rock Stars : Indie Rock (Bikini Kill, Sleater-Kinney)
Three One G : crazed hardcore, No Wave, some electronic-type rock (try Black Cat #13, the Locust)
Ebullition : hardcore punk, some emo (try Orchid, Bread and Circuits, Reversal of Man)
HydraHead : the best in metal and straight edge(Botch, Cave In, Soilent Green)
Relapse : metal, hardcore, tough guy stuff. (Napalm Death, Exhumed)
Reptillian Records : a variety of sounds, from garage rock to grindcore to rock'n roll (Page 99, Electric Frankenstein)
Revelation : More hardcore and metal. (Rancid, Brandtson, Isis)
TrustKill : Tough guy stuff. (Poison the Well)

All guaranteed (as far as I know) to be RIAA free!

Josh Sisk

One of my favorite albums of all time is a non-RIAA CD called "Unpop..." by The Previous. The album is the story of a high school loser named Dennis Bland (Who fans might catch a reference there) and his quest for love. It's darkly funny and every song is outstanding, and the production values are very, very high all the way around. It's $10 at CD Baby's Previous page (with RealAudio samples) or check out their home page. Seriously, it blows my mind that an album this good could be so unknown... give it a look!

The Marshall brand of guitar amps are only related to "The Immortal Jimi" in that he used them... extensively and contributed to their immense popularity. "Marshall" is an English guitar amp company, founded by a different Jim Marshall: James Charles Marshall. See THIS WEBPAGE for some cool history about Jim Marshall and his amps.

I just bought a DVD player, because it's finally gotten to the point where it is getting really hard to find movies on Laserdisc. Thankfully my favorite rental place still has a huge selection to rent, but now that neither Tower nor Virgin sell LDs any more, it's been getting too hard to find stuff (and forget about the possibility of older stuff being released on LD now -- no chance.)

And like most internet commerce, all the LD stores on the web suck . In addition to crummy UIs, most of them don't even tell you what version of the movie it is that you're about to order. So the fact that amazon.com sells DVDs but does not sell LDs was a big part of why I decided to go down this path, too.

As far as I can tell, these are the benefits of DVD over LD:

• There's no pause in the middle when the player flips to the other side.
• Cheaper media.

LD has much better picture quality. DVD has marginally better audio foo, but I just don't buy into all of this surround-sound quadrophonic buzzword crap. Unless your living room is a featureless cube devoid of furniture and windows and equipped with a $20,000 sound system, you're not going to hear much of a difference over a $1000 sound system with a good pair of speakers and maybe a subwoofer.

In the immortal words of Steve Albini on the liner notes to Big Black's compilation album ``The Rich Man's Eight Track Tape'':

``This compact disc, compiled to exploit those of you gullible enough to own the bastardly first-generation digital home music system, contains all-analog masters. Compact discs are quite durable, this being their only advantage over real music media. You should take every opportunity to scratch them, fingerprint them, and eat egg and bacon sandwiches off them. Don't worry about their longevity, as Philips will pronounce them obsolete when the next phase of the market-squeezing technology bonanza begins.

When, in five years, this remarkable achievement in the advancement of fidelity is obsolete and unplayable on any `modern' equipment, remember: in 1971, the 8-track tape was the state of the art.''

Count me among the folks who doesn't see why Ghostbusters is such a big deal. Yeah, it was funny. But it's been out on LD for years. So?

It's also strange when people talk about all these wonderful extras that DVDs come with. Laserdiscs have always done that! The format offers identical functionality (meaning, ``crappy low resolution on-screen UIs.'') The audio-commentary stuff is often very good, but stills and scripts are just gimicks. Ever tried to read a movie script on a tv screen? It sucks.