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Etlliche gute Gründe für Obama (u.a. das mir bisher unbekannte Unterstützen von Creative Commons) gibt's bei xkcd:The Democratic party has a long, painful history of nominating unlikable, uncharismatic ‘default’ establishment candidates who are eventually swatted aside by the voters. Nominating Clinton would be continuing that tradition at the very time when we have a chance to do so much better. Let’s not let that chance slip by.

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Jetzt kommt doch alle mal wieder runter vom fliegenden Teppich, qtrax bringt genau nüscht "Bewegung ins Musikbiz" und hat auch gar nix mit den (Bewegung ins Musikbiz bringenden) Neuigkeiten von last.fm und amazon.mp3 zu tun, denn das hier ist nicht ernst zu nehmender Napster für umme plus Werbung ... und DRM. Liebe Leute. DRM. 2008. Get Over it.

[update] Und dann auch noch sowas und sowas...

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For artists and managers, this is the moment to take things into their own hands. Artists no longer need to be held for 10 years and they no longer need to sign away ownership of their recorded copyrights. These days, an artist working closely with his manager can ensure that everything is done in the artist's best interest. Majors have never done that. And never will.(history)

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Today we’re redesigning the music economy.

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Sofern das stimmt, wär's Pflicht, auch wenn die neue Platte etwas merkwürdig ist:

Tue 04.15.08 Dresden (DE) Beatpol
Thu 04.17.08 Bern (CH) Reitchule
Sat 04.19.08 Steyer (AT) Roda
Sun 04.20.08 Wien (AT) B72
Tue 04.22.08 Hamburg (DE) Logo
Wed 04.23.08 Leipzig (DE) Nato
Thu 04.24.08 Bielefeld (DE) Forum
Fri 04.25.08 Hannover (DE) Glocksee
Sat 04.26.08 Ebensee (AT) Kino

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...jetzt im Sommer dann als Joker zu sehen wird sicher nicht lustig.

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I would have to investigate more Bill’s dancing abilities, you know, some of this other stuff before I accurately judged whether he was, in fact, a brother.(Direktlink)

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(Direktlink)

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• Serenity war der erste HD-Leak.
• Serenity liegt jetzt da oben.
• Serenity macht noch mehr Spaß, wenn man weiß, dass River drei Jahre später tatsächlich die Arnie-Nachfolgerin als Killermaschine sein wird.
• Serenity könnte einen Nachfolger erhalten, wenn wir alle das hier kaufen. 10,95. Geschenkt.

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Eine wirklich schöne, elaborierte Story über die MediaDefender-Geschichte (via netzpolitik):
"This is not Napster," says Harvey Weinstein, the movie mogul who heads the Weinstein Co., a MediaDefender client. "Online piracy has got to be stopped. The biggest spear in the neck of the pirates will be (a) being vigilant, (b) prosecuting, and (c) in a way, making fun of them, finding a way to say, 'That's not cool—that's anything but cool.' If you had people who the young people respect in this industry—Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Shia LaBeouf—if these guys did public service announcements that said, 'Don't steal, stealing's not cool,' I think you can go a long way toward stopping this." Weinstein says that if Democrats maintain control of Congress and gain the White House, he'll flex whatever political muscle he has acquired by being a major donor to achieve one thing: "Tougher, more stringent piracy laws." Does he see any use for P2P systems? "No."Verfilmung erwünscht. Und dann das Sequel: 09 F9. Irgendwann werden wir uns dieser Geschehnisse hier wirklich lachhaft zurückerinnern.

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Guinness World Records even listed Graham's number as the World Champion largest number. It is too large to be written in scientific notation because even the digits in the exponent would exceed the number of atoms in the observable universe so it needs its own special notation (G) to write down.
Edit: Man beachte auch das und das : "Indeed, one could define science as reason’s attempt to compensate for our inability to perceive big numbers.".

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