Daily Archives: 25/05/2005

idol aftermath: no top 40 radio for me this summer

Well, Carrie Underwood won American Idol. Good for her, I wish her the best. But I won’t buy her single or her album. She’s just like any other female country-crossover on the air these days, save for one key difference: she has absolutely no sense of pitch, delivery, timing or anything needed to have career

may i implode now?

Dear god: there’s a magazine about blogs that will commence publication this summer. Talk about nice marketing – yeesh!

fun with amazon

As anybody knows, Amazon has an extensive library of images: CD cover art, book jackets, appliances, etc. But what I didn’t know (until this morning) is that the various image composites (e.g. an album with a “30 percent off” badge) are generated on the fly. Nat Gertler figured this out, and posted this wonderful guide