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For nearly as long as there's been an Internet, fans have been contributing to the nine inch nails experience. There's something about the music that seems to inspire a devotional following (probably has to do with expressions of angst, contempt and alienation wrapped appealing pop sensibilities). Youthful rebelliousness and antiestablishmentism runs deep through both camps. Indeed, the rise of nin and the net seems to have coincided perfectly with ...

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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6627904867875032821 Ethan Winer plays all 37 separate parts on A Cello Rondo, including the percussion, on his cello. He also composed the song. The music is about 6 minutes long and the end of the video shows his digital music editing and some of his film setup. Not only is the production quite smooth, showcasing the power of modern technology to allow a single person to (relatively) easily create complex ...

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I don't use the site as much as I should, but it's cool nonetheless. But I find this trend of useful, independent websites getting bought by soulless corporations to be increasingly annoying. $280 million though. It sure it's hard for those UK boys to pass up. The last.fm blog claims there's no reason to worry and that CBS "understands the Last.fm vision." Still, as we've seen with flickr and reddit, ...

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So, by now, large portions of the internet is abuzz with the Federal jury decision that Microsoft has been violating some of Alcatel-Lucent's patents on the MP3 file format, which ahas been the backbone of the digital music revolutions and without which iTunes and the iPod would not have been possible. I couldn't help but note the timing of the ruling, since I had been been researching MP3 patents ...

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So the mythical iPhone was unveiled yesterday and by all accounts, it is a revolutionary communications and portable computer device. The user interface alone is light years ahead of anything else on the market. And the technology behind it really looks phenomenal... for a phone. But even with all that legendary RDF action in effect, my own reaction is surprisingly lukewarm. Bias Alert!: I abhor the telephone in general and ...

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