Archive for November, 2007

Re: Vos Cerveaux

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Whilst carefully avoiding the completion of “My Beige Bear” I found myself distracted by a little side project. I’ve always wanted to record a couple of the hits in other languages just to see what would happen. Jeremsoft (who is French, and judging from the name, an AI) sent me a French translation for “Re: [...]

Doug Morris, Old Person

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

There’s a profile of Doug Morris, CEO of Universal in December’s Wired. You may read the summary of it on the New York Magazine blog if you’re short on time, especially since they have already pulled the best quote wherein Morris explains why the music industry didn’t just build their own digital distribution network when [...]

China Newsweek

Monday, November 26th, 2007

If you scroll down to the bottom of the front page today at China Newsweek’s site you’ll see a picture of me and a link to an actual article in actual Chinese. I knew this was coming and did the interview and everything; still this is very surreal and strange to me, like a dream [...]

Freakonomics Reader Questions

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

Over at the Freakonomics blog they’ve posted my answers to reader-submitted questions. I think I wrote too much - who do I think I am, Robert Redford?

Robert Redford Is Not a Native Speaker of English

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

I am not making this up. Here is what it says on page one of the Sundance Christmas catalog (I mean “Holiday Catalog”). This is supposedly a message straight from Robert Redford. And I quote:
“Holidays again. Forgive me while I dodge the rumble of the million footed throngs that have succumbed to the marketing ether [...]