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I don’t wanna be an old man anymore
It’s been a year or two since I was out on the floor
Shakin’ booty, makin’ sweet love all the night
It’s time I got back to the good life

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What Excel was really meant for.
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What Excel was really meant for.

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Raising Houston Music Prices Good Business, Bad PR

Two words: dynamic pricing. Those could be magic words in the media business these days.

When you walk into Wal-Mart and see the DVD released last week, you’ll pay $28 for it. In two weeks, $21; in 3 months, $14. That’s just cashing in on demand - it’s the most common practice in the retail world.

But we don’t live in the DVD world any more, we now live in the digital distribution world, where prices can be altered as quickly and easily as updating a twitter account. That’s dynamic pricing. (See local gas station for another common example).

You won’t see a Wal-Mart employee running down the music aisle with a price gun after hearing of a singer’s untimely death, but I bet that if they knew it would bring in an extra $2-million, they would send someone sprinting.

Hard to blame Sony for dynamic music price

So I find it hard to blame the reported mid-level Sony executive who raised the price of Whitney Houston’s digital music downloads in the wake of her death this week.

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Finally…

Messages, as it’s called in Mountain Lion, will replace iChat, the chat software Apple includes out of the box. Users will still get access to IM networks like AIM, Yahoo, and Jabber, though Apple’s added compatibility with the same iMessage service that was introduced as part of iOS 5, which Apple says has now served up 26 billion messages since its October launch. Messages can be used to send and receive iMessages with these users for free, and the conversation can be picked up and continued from any device with that same Apple ID and iMessage enabled.Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-57378751-248/apple-mac-os-x-mountain-lion-takes-more-bites-out-of-ios/#ixzz1mYeeRyJC
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Finally…

Messages, as it’s called in Mountain Lion, will replace iChat, the chat software Apple includes out of the box. Users will still get access to IM networks like AIM, Yahoo, and Jabber, though Apple’s added compatibility with the same iMessage service that was introduced as part of iOS 5, which Apple says has now served up 26 billion messages since its October launch. Messages can be used to send and receive iMessages with these users for free, and the conversation can be picked up and continued from any device with that same Apple ID and iMessage enabled.

Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-57378751-248/apple-mac-os-x-mountain-lion-takes-more-bites-out-of-ios/#ixzz1mYeeRyJC

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    • #ios
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Derplin’s new job.
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Derplin’s new job.

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Didn’t bring my camera last night, so imagine this scene, but from row 8 of the balcony section in TD Garden - a beautiful arena for basketball games.
Despite an amazing game by Rajon Rondo (seen here taking rookie Brandon Knight to school), the Boston Celtics lost to the lowly Detroit Pistons last night 98-88.
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Didn’t bring my camera last night, so imagine this scene, but from row 8 of the balcony section in TD Garden - a beautiful arena for basketball games.

Despite an amazing game by Rajon Rondo (seen here taking rookie Brandon Knight to school), the Boston Celtics lost to the lowly Detroit Pistons last night 98-88.

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    • #sports
    • #boston
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orange-happy:

“Charlie the Dog wishing good luck to the SRB before the Ottawa NAC show.”
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orange-happy:

“Charlie the Dog wishing good luck to the SRB before the Ottawa NAC show.”

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One light street corner, Boston MA.
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One light street corner, Boston MA.

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Community writer Tim Saccardo (@TimSaccardo) posted this picture on his twitter account today. It looks like where I want to be.
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Community writer Tim Saccardo (@TimSaccardo) posted this picture on his twitter account today. It looks like where I want to be.

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Netflix original series will change the course of TV history

Lilyhammer is Netflix's first original TV series.

I’m left wondering why folks aren’t in the streets raving about the TV breakthrough that occurred just yesterday: Netflix released its first original series.

You’re right. It sounds kind of dull. AMC has their own series, so does HBO - for that matter, so do ABC and NBC and CBC.

So why is this a breakthrough? Because my TV only has one cord connecting it to the wall: the power cord.

With Netflix releasing its first original series, a crime(-comedy? …from what I can tell from the trailer…) called Lilyhammer and releasing it exclusively through their Internet video streaming service, we’re seeing the first time an online-only TV network is taking on the big guys with its own content, rather than buying content from them.

(And I’m not talking some 10-minute The Office webisode bullshit here)

Starting to get it?

For the first time, a non-legacy TV network (i.e.: no antennae or government funding in its past) is competing with major networks for eyeballs on a nightly basis, and doing so without broadcasting through traditional means.

…and leaving out the commercials too.

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I was going to make fun of Nickelback, but then I decided to just move on with my life.
Ben Myers (me)
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I will solve your problem, and you will pay me. […] You can use what I produce, or not, but I will not do options, and either way you will pay me.

Paul Rand

Words for designers and freelancers to live by.

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radiomaru:

Scott Pilgrim

B-nib and watercolor, 2008

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So cold.
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radiomaru:

Scott Pilgrim

B-nib and watercolor, 2008

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So cold.

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Four-Word Column: NHL All-Star Media Day

Let’s watch them talk.

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Four-Word Column: Sidney Crosby

Don’t die before Sochi.

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