Daily Archives: June 4th, 2007

Metal Is The Stuff of Geniuses, Apparently

This is the greatest little bit of affirmation I’ve heard in a while. When I’m sitting at my job programming with metal blasting from my headphones I’ll remember this and smile. Apparently ‘gifted’ children like to listen to metal. Rock on!

RIAA Drops Charges Against Tanya Andersen

This is an interesting story. Tanya Andersen has been one of many lawsuit defendants (read victims) in a campaign by the RIAA to crack down on file sharing networks. According to Ars Technica and this study, the music industry has been overstating the threat P2P networks pose to music sales. Why would they do this?