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"Condom!" is a free ringtone for your phone. It's being promoted in India as part of a campaign to normalize condom use, but there's no reason you can't put it on your own phone to impress and amaze fellow diners, bus riders, church goers, etc. It's also catchy! [Crave]
file sharing
bad company
EMI Says You Can't Store Your Music Files Online
Today, MP3tunes' CEO Michael Robertson sent out an email to all users of the online music backup and place-shifting service MP3tunes.com, asking them to help publicize EMI's ridiculous and ignorant lawsuit against the company. EMI believes that consumers aren't allowed to store their music files online, and that MP3tunes is violating copyright law by providing a backup service. (And we're not using a euphemism here—it really is a backup/place-shifting service and not a file sharing site in disguise.) More »
your government
FCC Regulators Sing, Make Fun Of Our Woeful Unpreparedness For DTV Transition
Meet The Singing Regulators. Regular FCC employees by day, these mellifluous regulators spend their nights performing humorous sendups inspired by the Commission's work. Their latest song pokes fun at the FCC's utter failure to prepare the nation for the planned February 2009 transition to digital television. More »
filesharing
RIAA Told To Provide Breakdown Of Expenses Per Each Downloaded Song
Over the Thanksgiving weekend, a Brooklyn judge made a defendant in an RIAA lawsuit very happy when he ordered the RIAA to document the actual expenses incurred per downloaded song. More »
christmas creep
Starbucks Rolls Out Christmas Cups, Christmas Blends, And Christmas Music - Seven Weeks Before Christmas
Corporate America has a new ally in the war to spread unseasonable holiday cheer. Thanksgiving may be two weeks away, but according to one sharp-eyed reader, that isn't stopping the coffee behemoth Starbucks from bludgeoning consumers with Christmas.
Just last year, the Seattle Times wrote: "Something [consumers] don't want — and which Starbucks will hold until after Thanksgiving — are the holiday tunes."
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complaints
ComcastMustDie.com Seeks Theme Song
ComcastMustDie, a blog about how much Comcast sucks, is looking for someone to make a theme song for an upcoming podcast. They want it to be 90 seconds or less, contain instrumentals, vocals and it would be nice if they contained these suggested lyrics:
"Please why oh why? Comcast Must Die!"
"And I just sigh 'Comcast Must Die."
"'Cause they just lie, Comcast Must Die."
"'Goddamn!' cussed I. 'Comcast Must Die!'"
Submissions can be sent to bobosphere@gmail.com.
Theme Song Needed [Comcast Must Die]
intel
Intel Cares... About Deafening Its Workers
In Dario Argento's horror masterpiece, Opera, a young woman is pursued by a sadistic serial killer, kidnapped, has her eyelids propped open by sharp needles and is forced to watch her friends being murdered. More »
starbucks
We Built This Starbucks On Suck And Hyperbole
drm
You Don't Own Anything With DRM
One problem with DRM in general is that it is an industry concept that takes-as-read the consumerist fallacy that you don't actually own things you buy, you just license them. Perhaps this is the natural evolution of consumerism now that products like media are, if not less tangible, at least a bit more ethereal. Still, DRM gives all the power to the companies... and companies prove time and time again that they can't be trusted. More »
target
Target Motivational Song Brainwashes Employees Into Having Fun
apple
