—Kazaa is slowly getting out of its legal quagmire. That’s good news for everyone who cares. I have to wonder how it will hold up in the face of mass-market online retailers like iTunes, and allofmp3.com, mostly free services like Last.fm and Pandora, and the torrent venues like BitTorrent. The more the merrier I suppose. The industry moguls can’t sue everyone.
—Can videogames make you cry? Interesting little article on the potential of the medium. My answer is… umm… *coughyescough*.

–An article in the New York Times points to the decline of independent music stores[$]. The clientele is older and the tastes more esoteric. This seems to match up with my experience in the local store called Wuxtry. It was me, and a couple of 40- and 50-year-old guys. I did manage to walk out with some classic Moby and Sasha on the cheap.

–Here’s a trio of guys who walked 600+ miles across the most remote wilderness in the United States without any outside support.