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Submission + - Free, legal music for college students

Submitted by

theundergroundjazzman

on Saturday January 27, 2007 @12:13AM

theundergroundjazzman writes: "A former Napster executive intends to set up a new music provider in a bid to challenge iTunes: "Mike Bebel has a plan for inducing young people to pay for downloaded music: Give them all the songs they want for free while they're still in college, then start charging them a fee when they're out of school and gainfully employed...""

PAX Embiggened For 2007 32

Posted by Zonk on Saturday January 27, 2007 @12:06AM from the gaze-out-from-our-glass-tower-upon-this-new-dominion dept.

The Penny Arcade Expo has moved to a new venue and plans to double in size over the 2006 show. The Washington State Convention center is the new home of PAX for the forseeable future, boasting 200,000 square feet of usable space. Organizers of the convention, started by the duo behind the Penny Arcade comic in 2005, are conservatively expecting 30,000 people to attend the three-day long event. Information about this year's show: "In addition to a show floor filled with contests, tournaments, and unreleased games, PAX 2007 will play host to the annual Omegathon three-day gaming competition, as well as a number of musical acts. Penny Arcade writer Jerry Holkins told GameSpot today that Jonathan Coulton ('Code Monkey,' 'Re: Your Brains') and Freezepop (whose music can be heard in games like Amplitude and Guitar Hero) will be performing at PAX 07."

Journal Journal: What to get your geeky girl for Valentine's Day 1

Journal by sortadigital on Friday January 26, 2007 @08:57PM

So you're one of the lucky few with a geek as a girlfriend, but your genius has failed you in regards to possible V-Day gifts. Why not get her a pair of Caffeine Earrings and matching necklace, a Diskette Handbag, or a

Submission + - The end of literature - the new Text Message Novel

Submitted by

fluffykira

on Friday January 26, 2007 @06:40PM

fluffykira writes: "A new novel has been published in Finland; a sort of bastardization of the epistolary style of great authors. Instead the author compiles his unedited text messages in chronological order (typos, abbreviations and all) to form a novel of sorts. I believe I just heard Jane Austen, the Bronte Sisters, Mark Twain and even F. Scott Fitzgerald rolling over in their graves."

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