Archive for August, 2006

Metal Guitar Tabs

One of my first forays into the world of web-authoring was a metal tab site I put together a number of years ago, as a means of providing yet one more resource for those other aspiring metal guitarists out there. Now, I have again felt the need for more metal tabs (I’m amazed at the lack of any decent Into Eternity tabs around! Though those Fuckheads over at the MPA are a big reason (they’ve started cracking down on tab sites again… really moronic and self-defeating in the end. (Read more here)

So anyways, I’m only posting tabs for bands for whom it is impossible to buy tab books, and most of whom also host tabs on their sites. So without further ado, the humble beginnings of my tab archive. (I still have a crapload of tabs lying around somewhere from my earlier collection, but since my computer is as of right now crippled, and I am as of right now a bit lethargic (lazy?), who knows when they’ll make their way on here (though I think I finally have enough space to host them all!)).

So far I have a very good selection of Into Eternity tabs, some Kamelot, and a couple Cacophony tabs (that song Images is so killer! [txt | GuitarPro])

I’m also including GuitarPro tabs in the collection for the first time, since Arobos now offers a Mac version of their venerable hybrid tab editing/midi composition software (albeit an unstable and erratic version, but a version nonetheless… I can’t decide whether to buy it yet–I may just wait til they make it more stable).

Metalocalypse in the Boston Phoenix!

The Cartoon Network goes heavy metal - The Phoenix
Oooh oooh I can’t wait!
So exciting, it’s almost here…
Premiere is August 6 at 11:45pm on Cartoon Network (Adult Swim)
Trailer is here (youtube)
Also see wikipedia

Daring Fireball: Magic 8-Ball Answers Your Questions Regarding Microsoft’s ‘Zune’

Gotta love the M$-bashing
Always a fan of sarcasm used carefully :-D

The fake restaurant selling fake DVDs. By Henry Blodget

The fake restaurant selling fake DVDs. By Henry Blodget

This, of course, reveals one of the two fallacies in the media industry’s assertion that file-sharing and DVD piracy are the same as “stealing”: Some of the supposed damages from “lost sales” would never have been sales in the first place. The other fallacy is that the “theft” of digital property is the same as the theft of physical property—which it isn’t. When someone steals a physical product—a car, say, or a DVD from the shelves of Blockbuster—the owner has lost more than a potential sale; he or she has lost inventory. When someone buys a copy of a digital product, however, for which the owner of the copyright has paid nothing, the owner has lost only a potential sale. This doesn’t make file-sharing or DVD piracy OK—there must be some way for producers and packagers to get paid—but it does explain, in part, why millions of people who would never shoplift are so eager to collect pirated DVDs.

Right on.




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