Blue Sky On Mars

Newsweek’s Steven Levy talks about the record industry killing Net radio. I hope that some day our culture will recover from all of the damage this handful of companies is causing.

The NY Times presents an excellent 8 page article on low fat not being all it’s cracked up to be. Personally, I don’t have a weight or cholesterol problem at this point in my life, so I haven’t been worried about dieting. But I have been living with the indoctrination that a low-fat diet is the right kind of diet for a long time…
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Though I’m not familiar with her music, I find Janis Ian’s article about music downloading very interesting. Reading an artists take on this is interesting, because the record companies claim to be trying to protect the interests of artists. Janis doesn’t think so, and I’m sure there are numerous others who agree with her.

The NYTimes reports a bit more broadly on the news that the record companies are releasing more music for download. Again, I say to them: “Try MP3, you’ll like it!”