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Category: bullshit

Digidesign and Pro Tools’ FireWire400 Problem

Digidesign has a giant problem on their hands. What you see above is Digidesign’s highest end recording system using the Pro Tools LE software, which is the most popular version of the Pro Tools software made. Normally, you could pair this piece of hardware with a Mac Pro and have a seriously strong audio setup, [...]

Slow hosting from GoDaddy

The past few days this site has some to a crawl for what appears to be no reason aside from GoDaddy’s hosting. I’ve heard similar complaints from people on Twitter.
Despite this not being my fault, I’m sorry. This is supposed to be a simple blog (take a look at the design) and it’s not supposed [...]

Bullshit: Guillermo Vargas Habacuc

I have no reservation saying that people who treat dogs like shit in the name of “Art” should be treated like shit in the name of “art”.
Our new target is Guillermo Vargas Habacuc, who tied up a dog in the corner of a gallery. Over him was the words “You Are What You Read” written [...]

Bullshit: Universal Music Group

Alternatively, Augusto testified that “a common way to dispose of them” is to give unsold promotional CD away, or he may throw them away. Both are unauthorized distributions.
That’s a real quote from a federal court filing from the Universal Music Group. I’m sure that you’ve seen CDs before either in used CD stores or maybe [...]

Bullshit: Tom Otterness

If you’ve ever been to the 14th St-8th Ave subway station in Manhattan, you’ve probably seen the art installations strewn around the station. They look pretty cool and they add a nice touch to the station. The McBrooklyn blog had a post today Dog Killing Past Still Haunts Tom Otterness.
Turns out that in the name [...]