http://www.darkmuse.co.uk/wordpress Whispers of the Muse Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:01:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Why oh why does iTunes always do this?  It pretends to be your friend, it lures you in with its nice looking interface and promise of easy reward.  Then it kicks you in the nuts with its unexplained overloaded checkboxes, makes your current sort order affect its operation and just ... http://www.darkmuse.co.uk/wordpress/2008/07/15/itunes-two-faced/ Lets hope so. Music venue in Leamington  http://www.darkmuse.co.uk/wordpress/2007/05/30/leamington-to-get-a-dream-venue/ Imagine, program, share Thats the tag line of a new project from the guys at MIT: Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share ... http://www.darkmuse.co.uk/wordpress/2007/05/21/scratch/ I've had an interesting morning so far, reading various articles and arguments in the field of copyright law. Well I thought it was interesting anyway. Its something I've long been interested in and something that is getting talked about more and more as its starting to affect things ... http://www.darkmuse.co.uk/wordpress/2007/05/21/on-copyright/ A couple of people have sent me links to the announcement of GTA 4 today. What they don't seem to realise is that all the GTA games are a bit rubbish. I seem to remember having a bit of fun in the top-down games (1 and 2?) but ... http://www.darkmuse.co.uk/wordpress/2007/03/30/blue-sky-in-games/ I went for my first ever session of blood letting yesterday.  I can't say I feel any better (nor worse) for the experience but hopefully someone can make good use of the blood given.  The first chirurgeon decided that she couldn't find a suitably large vein in either arm so ... http://www.darkmuse.co.uk/wordpress/2007/03/08/phlebotomy/ And 26 thousand others. I'm not normally one for signing petitions and the like but in the case of a biometric national ID card I had to. That is why I signed this online petition. I cannot begin to imagine why people think it is a good ... http://www.darkmuse.co.uk/wordpress/2007/02/20/pm-blair-emails-me/ Link to a Youtube vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE&eurl=  Enjoy http://www.darkmuse.co.uk/wordpress/2007/02/13/web-20-the-machine-is-using-us/ It appears that some law-makers do have a sense of humour: http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/?p=631 Brilliant. http://www.darkmuse.co.uk/wordpress/2007/02/13/more-on-law/ Steve Jobs has recently posted his "Thoughts on Music". Its very well worded; mainly, I think, to try to push any responsibility for DRM onto the big four (Universal, EMI, Sony BMG and Warner). Still it is interesting to note that Steve, and hence Apple inc., would drop DRM in ... http://www.darkmuse.co.uk/wordpress/2007/02/07/thoughts-on-music/