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james73 · Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 7:27 pm Post subject:

http://fantasticcontraption.com/

This will drive you mental...

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james73 · Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 4:07 pm Post subject:

Spot the hidden tiger...

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Hugo Drax · Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2008 10:04 am Post subject:

The National Media Museum have started posting their collections on flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalmediamuseum/
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Hugo Drax · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 2:44 pm Post subject:

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tombro · Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 10:35 am Post subject:

And the point is, Hugo ?

Regards,
Tombro

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james73 · Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:17 pm Post subject:

The end of the world is nigh...

Physicists ignore black hole theory

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Fjord · Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:40 pm Post subject:

james73 · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 4:20 pm Post subject:

New Marillion album free to share (BBC)

Rock group Marillion are to make their new album available as a free
download through file-sharing websites.

But a pop-up box will appear on computer screens when the tracks are
first played, encouraging fans to give the band their e-mail address.

Keyboardist Mark Kelly said downloaders would be contacted with offers
of gig tickets and other merchandise, to try to make some money back
for the band.

"We're willing to try new things and we want to see what happens," he said.

"Everybody's aware of the effect of peer-to-peer file-sharing on CD sales
and the music industry in general," he told the BBC News website.

"Up until recently we've felt fairly immune to that because the fans have
been really supportive of the band and, I suppose, because of the age
demographic, they do tend to prefer CDs to downloads."

Bands have been exploring new ways to release music in recent months,
with Radiohead making their last album available online on a pay-what-
you-like basis and Prince giving his most recent CD away with a newspaper.

Kelly acknowledged that making Marillion's music available for free was
against his natural instinct - "we come from a long tradition of selling it".

But he still expected fans would buy the CD version of Happiness is the
Road when it is released on 20 October.

"People forget Radiohead were still number one in the album charts," he
added.

"They also say they weren't very successful because they only got an
average of £2 per download.

"But they wouldn't have got £2 per sale from [record company] EMI, so in
those terms it was actually a big success, and they still sold CDs."

'Loyal fanbase'

Paul Williams, who edits record industry publication Music Week, said
Marillion had always been "pretty ground-breaking in terms of doing
things differently and they have a very loyal fanbase".

Taking that into consideration, he said, the download plan would "probably
work for them quite successfully".

Marillion have bypassed record companies in the past by asking fans to
pay for albums before recording began, thereby securing funds for studio
time.

www.musicglue.com/marillion

James H
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james73 · Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 1:41 pm Post subject:

We're all going to die - again...

James H
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