Matthew Gifford

The Flaming Lips have made all the tracks from Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots available for your listening pleasure.

Yuck.

You don’t have to ask for permission to link to NPR anymore. However, they still feel that there is such a thing as inappropriate linking. They still don’t get it. Maybe they should consider taking their site down if they don’t like how the web works.

This story of entrapment by car salesmen has to one of the most insane things I’ve ever read. Am I alone in thinking that businesses are becoming increasingly hostile toward their customers?

Sonic Youth’s new album is excellent. It’s nice to hear them playing actual songs again. I like Sonic Youth’s noisy stuff, but I think they’re a much better band when they concentrate on songwriting. The warm mix is a nice change from the last couple albums, as well. Jim O’Rourke continues to work his magic.

This post by Yoz Grahame makes me wish I knew more Perl.

Now Wired has a story on the NPR linking policy. Mr. Dvorkin doesn’t seem to get it.

Apparently, this linking to NPR meme is on fire.

Linking to or framing of any material on this site without the prior written consent of NPR is prohibited.

Clueless.

How is it that MySQL 3.22 on the server and MySQL 3.23 on my PowerBook could treat select statements so differently? This is maddening!

Ah. Maybe it's because the hosting company installed a beta version on a production server.