Things I've read in the last 10 minutes

• One in every eight pounds spent in British shops is spent in Tesco. Frightening.
• Man bets his nuts, and goes through with it. You have to read this.

  Random Rugby fan: But you are aware that despite your pure love of rugby, you will now never be able to properly love a woman- or most probably man in your case.

  Severed-balls man: Oh fuck, you're right. Someone call an ambulance.

  Reported at Reuters.

It's amazing what goes on in the world.

Posted at 2005-02-08 16:41:49 by Richard • Link to Things I've read i…
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Renting music

John Gruber provides another cracking conclusion:

These are people who pretty much blew a big chunk of their income during college on CDs. Even if you only shopped at used-CD stores, a 500-disc collection would set you back a couple thousand dollars. It's no joke to claim that many of my friends during college had their net worth, such that it was, tied up in their CD collections.

Fast-forward to today, and those of us with CD collections don't need to spend any money at all to repurchase the music we listened to 10 years ago, because we still own it. Whereas a kid today who puts his money into a subscription service like Napster To Go is going to wind up spending a couple of thousand dollars over the next decade, and yet own nothing.

Absolutely spot-on. That's the fundamental flaw with subscription-based services that keeps me away: when you stop subscribing, you can't use the service. That's OK for things that behave like services (like unlimited cinema, or phone rental), but not good for things that behave like property — songs being a good example. Now: where is the line between Napster To Go and paying for the radio? I'm not sure. More thought needed!

Posted at 2005-02-08 10:01:25 by Richard • Link to Renting music
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Traffic spike

My music server was picked up by Lemonodor, and consequently Planet Lisp; hello to the 1500-or-so Lispers who've wandered by as a result!

Perhaps I should make a little Applescript Lisp library…

Posted at 2005-02-08 09:23:50 by Richard • Link to Traffic spike
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