In Google labs we have Living Stories “an experiment in presenting news, one designed specifically for the online environment…” Interesting. I recall being excited about Wikipedia’s News coverage, take the entry on Hurricane Katrina for example. The format steps away from the ‘old fashioned’ model of news as a series of historic articles and stepped into the future of news as a single, always evolving, article. Living Stories’ The War in Afghanistan for example. The future is now.

NPR visits a parking garage exhibit at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. Just a hair more interesting than it sounds. / The Japanese Addressing system, and other opposites / Some sounds from The Jazz Loft Project / New art from vasco mourao / Subscribe to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Artwork of the day RSS feed. If only they’d get to the point and offer up large images right off the bat, their subscribers would really really enjoy it. A for effort. / I dig the HTML layout of this Nolan Johnson article from the Skateboard Mag. All print-like on the web. Nice link in the second headline. Print is dead, long live print. / Movie title screens, a set of illustrations on Flickr. / Nerd alert: Optimizing HTML, some fantastic tips to steer you towards “having a solid and robust foundation to build upon”. Well said, well done. Kinda. Things get a bit carried away towards the end and they end up promoting some bad practices. Look for the gems.

In the news:

OiNK Website Shutdown – BBC video on You Tube

Huge pirate music site shut down – BBC News
The BBC quotes a police spokesperson:

“This extremely lucrative and creative scheme consisted of a private file-sharing website being set up.”

Creative scheme? Bit Torrent is a “creative scheme”, created by Oink? Are the police just trying to put this into news friendly terms? Or do they seriously misunderstand the site they’ve been investigating for the past 2 years?

Interview with Oink web host
“We’re just hoping they return our 30,000 euro servers as soon as possible.”

Oink Busted
“Users were, ‘potentially evading licence fees, subscription fees to digital services…’” “Potentially? So now they’re nailing people for something they might, or might not, do.”

OiNK Admin Released From Custody
“More interesting perhaps, how did they gain access to the OiNK domain, and why are they allowed to spread this propaganda? They are not a law-enforcement agency.”

Defending the Pig – Oink Croaks
DJ Rupture on Oink and why it’s good for music.

OiNK Database Didn’t ‘Self Destruct’, Wasn’t Encrypted But Users Safe?
“Following the raid at OiNK, many of the 180,000 members are very concerned about what’s happening with their details. The rumor: The OiNK database was encrypted and self-destructed. The truth: It wasn’t and it didn’t but ex-users still might be safe.” … “the logs we store aren’t enough to incriminate users.”

Alan Ellis (Oink) answers some questions
It’s great that after all this, he still made himself available to the users, and was able to do so.

I’m just assuming the people who buy music from iTunes are so comfortable with that interface, that there’s little reason to go a totally different route.

GigaOM compares Amazon MP3 to iTunes

Just because I was there, I gave a quick listen to a pair of BOSE “TriPort” in Target that were super flexible, felt great, and sounded even better, but at $150 they’re over my budget. I want something substantial too, ear buds are out of the question, but still somewhat portable & compact. Any suggestions?

BOSE TriPort, cheaper online, naturally:

Update: Thanks for the comments & suggestions, I was checking out some phones with my cousin who works in the acoustical engineering field (his screen name even mentions his hatred for BOSE). His favorite set is a Grado, which apparently are open element, so people can hear what you’re listening to, and you can hear them. Fine for home listening, but not ideal for an office setting.

He mentioned too that the Grado’s are what most audiophile reviewers use as reference to compare other products to. Clearly a player in the market, but again, not ideal for office use.

Sennheiser’s do have models with noise cancellation, and can be found much cheaper on sites other than their own.

Although they gathered under disappointing circumstances, The Dead Milkmen played an amazing show; live at the Trocadero no less. Deans Dream, Big Lizard, Punk Rock Girl, Stuart, Swordfish, I walk the Thinnest Line; Just some of the classics we finally had the chance to see live. And Congrats to Dandrew, of Low Budget fame who did a great job filling in for the late Dave Blood.

There’s a bunch of good links on the Dead Milkmen site, including video of tiny town, and a slew of Milkmen photos.

Joe rockin the organ. Big Lizard in my Backyard, Beelzabub, Metaphysical Graffitti & Soul Rotation will always be in heavy rotation in my CD player.

More rockin…

Chillin on the rooftop.

Who doesn’t love a 99 cent Colt 45? The young punks bought a case.