So the new Nine Inch Nails album, The Slip, is out.
You can purchase from the iTunes Store.
Or you can download for in a variety of formats from the NIN album site.
For free.
Based on his music moves these last couple years, I think Trent Reznor meant to create Rage Against the Machine, not NIN.
(Thanks Jory)

Travis Bickle: One of these days I gotta get myself organizized.
Betsy: Organizized? Dont you mean organized?
Travis Bickle: No, organizized. It’s a joke.
Betsy: Oh, like those signs that says, “Thimk”.
– from Taxi Driver, featuring Robert DeNiro

The Duke Spirit @ le Nouveau Casino, Paris, 20/02/2008., originally uploaded by DPC★313.

So I’ve frozen my awesome Sirius Radio account until I start using my car more (I don’t keep it in Manhattan).
Because of this, when my wife and I used our car this weekend, we had to listen to the ever dreadful FM radio. Given the poor state of FM radio in the US, it made my discovery of The Duke Spirit feel even more like I found a buried treasure. I’m apparently a little late to the game, as this band came together around 2003, but they’re new to me, and that’s all that counts.
It doesn’t hurt that the leader singer is smokin’ hot either.

The iPhone is more of a competitor to the Blackberry than I had originally thought.
Seems RIM has started a Blackberry developer fund just like Apple & KPCB did on March 6, 2008. They’ve also put 50 million dollars more into the pot than KPCB’s 100 million dollar iFund.
It also seems RIM is launching a full touchscreen Blackberry phone, sans tactile keyboard.
…and it ALSO seems RIM is organizing the first ever Blackberry Developers Conference.
Let’s get something straight RIM – just because you throw money and conferences at a mobile platform, doesn’t mean it’s going to get better.
The same way watering a rock garden isn’t going to grow you any fresh fruits and vegetables
…or blackberries as the case may be.

I didn’t plan on trashing the new iTunes competitors when I woke up this morning, it just happened that way.
I stumbled upon this story about the new Zune Marketplace, naively thinking I might be able to test drive it on my Mac.
HAHAHA!!! Silly Mike. You pea brain.
I’ll just pre-emptively mark this one up as another loss for Microsoft. Along with PlayForSure and Urge. A ballsy move, I know.

BBC News: GTA game smashes UK sales records

The title sold a record 609,000 copies on its first day of release, generating an estimated £24.4m ($48.5m).
The previous record holder was GTA: San Andreas, which sold 501,000 copies in 24 hours in October 2004.

and:

The game currently has an average review score of 98.7%, according to Gamerankings.com, which amalgamates reviews from all publications.
UK-based games website Eurogamer called it “game of the year” and handed it a 10 out of 10 review score.

See kids? Fake crime does pay.

spotted in Newark: