General Madness

From HitsDailyDouble.com: Victory Records chief Tony Brummel is on the warpath regarding Apple and the company’s iTunes policies. Brummel tried to negotiate a deal with the service but was unhappy with the terms, particularly Apple’s refusal to approve a one-year term contract.

Brummel fired off another of his infamous e-mails, this one to Apple’s Alex Luke. Some of the juicier excerpts follow: “The inflexibility on your side is mind boggling. This is art, if you have not forgotten. Do you think Michelangelo punched in and out when he painted the Sistine Chapel? Music consumers would look at your tactics as worse than those employed by the major record companies. I am surprised that Apple operates in such an authoritarian manner when its public image is that of a company run by creative types.

This “take it or leave it” stance is anti-entrepreneurial, anti-creative and anti-American…My staff and my artists are asked every day why Victory’s content is not on iTunes. When the explanation is given, people understand why we are not in business together. In fact, it bothers them. The power of word of mouth is undeniable, especially in the age of the Internet. It may take awhile to resonate but when it does, people typically react accordingly…I passed an olive branch. Instead of embracing it, you whack me in the face with it. This is bad business and sets a very unfortunate precedent. iTunes is not providing the public the alternative that it claims to be.”

The new Mac mini project, code-named Kaleidoscope, will feature an Intel processor and include both Front Row 2.0 and TiVo-like DVR functionality.
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This just popped up…

OAKLAND — Clad in dark suits and bow ties, a gang of vandals strolled into two Oakland corner liquor stores late Wednesday night and then unleashed a violent attack, terrorizing the clerks, smashing displays and coolers with iron pipes.
The brazen attacks were captured on videotape and thieves seemed not to care that their pictures were being recorded as they looked right into the cameras.
Oakland police have begun a search for the gang of 8-12 young men. But for one clerk, those terrifying moments will not soon be forgotten.
“They just jumped on me — started punching me,” the clerk told KTVU not wanting to give his identity.
“But when you come with baseball bats, and I don’t know if you got guns because you have your hands in your pockets… breaking our store apart… it took hard work, we are here 18 hours a day… working here to establish a business to feed our families, and they do this to us, it’s not fair.”
The clerk said his family was in the back room, waiting for him to close down the store so they could travel to a relative’s home for Thanksgiving. He said the violent attack has traumatized his children.
The attacks began around 11:30 a.m. with two stores targeted — one at 34th and Market and the other — San Pablo Liquor Market on 23rd and San Pablo Ave.
The men strolled into the stores, walked around a while and then turned on the clerks telling them to — “stop poisoning our neighborhoods.” Then the violence turned to the liquor bottles and cans stocked both on shelves and in the coolers.
There was no immediate estimate on damages and no serious injuries were reported.

Bane in my living room.

So the Nike Dunks will be released December 4th at the Tokyo Big Sight during the World Character
Convention 21 in Japan. Apparently the shoes are limited to less than 500. The Psyche Bandit set will (only) be available there too.

I want this guy.

and Bearbrick Series 11 is on its way.

These come out sometime December in Japan. More info soon, I hope.

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