• Posted by Tim Jarrett
  • On October 3, 2005

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Good week for free music

Item number 1: Seattle band Harvey Danger, of “Flagpole Sitta” fame, has released its newest album as free MP3 downloads from its website and via Bittorrent. Should be good stuff. (Via Slashdot)
Item number 2: Indie stalwarts Steadman have released their major label albums for free download from their website. (Via BoingBoing)
Finally, the 31 tossed-off-in-an-afternoon tracks [...]

  • Posted by Tim Jarrett
  • On October 3, 2005

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Virginia football: too good to be true

Well, Virginia was off to a strong start. Too bad about Saturday’s game: 45-33 is an ugly loss by anyone’s standards. I DVR’d the game but missed the last five minutes, thanks to the game going over three hours, and consequently missed the last scoring drives from both teams. It really looks like there wasn’t [...]

  • Posted by Tim Jarrett
  • On October 3, 2005

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Disney is around here somewhere, isn’t it

In the light of day, the Gaylord Palms looks like the sort of resort that makes you say, “Now I know what Disney’s contractors do on their days off from the Magic Kingdom.” The central atrium has a kind of Disneyfied view of Florida architecture, from a mock Everglades to a faux spanish castle to [...]