Friday Findings (17 April, 2009 Edition)

[akaihyo]

Shameless plug! We have a Roleplaying Game Demo Night at Tyche's Games tonight starting at 6.

Join my (virtual) dojo! Silly online fighting game.

What you need, my friends, is your own personal (programmable) soundtrack t-shirt. Though I want an MP3 player that adjusts what it is playing to the conditions around me.

On the more serious side, what should be done about music no longer in print? A whole community of bloggers are providing downloads of these otherwise unavailable pieces of music. Pretty cool if in a legal gray area.

Wired reports of civilian uses for nuclear explosives (they call they crazy, I think creative is better).

Comments

[akaihyo.livejournal.com]

Well, for the music, there is no way to get it unless you stumble across it in a box somewhere. There is no commercial release to compete with (and the ethical sites pull their files down if the music is rereleased). So, where does that leave it?

[xuande.livejournal.com]

I guess what I'm saying is the game is less likely to be re-released than the music, because there's an a priori reason it wouldn't sell. For music to have a dated style, on the other hand, can actually be a selling point.

That hardly disqualifies it as an ethical practice, but I'd say it's a darker shade of gray than abandonware.