Unsought Input

I found an interesting article today that says the acutal inventor of the iPod is not Apple but some furniture salesman named Kane Kramer from the UK.  Apparently his invention was patented in 1979 (I believe he calls himself a revolutionary) but since he couldn’t afford to pay the costs to keep the patent, it fell to public domain where Apple more than likely found it and gobbled it up .  I do admit, it’s a great design and years ahead of it’s time.

I am borrowing this picture from his site that shows his early patent drawings.

What I also find interesting is that no mention of this guy would have ever come up if Burst Patents hadn’t tried to cash in on Apple’s sucess by trying to claim the iPod violated it’s own patents.  In Apple’s defence they said, wait, no, you don’t have the patent, we stole it (legally) from this British Bloke over here.  Oh, and thanks for the good idea, buddy, here’s a free iPod for your trouble!

Too bad his iPod broke after less than a year.  I feel kinda bad for this guy, I mean, if he had been able to hold onto his patent would we all be listening to music on our Kane Digital Audio Player?  Or would Apple have found another public domain patent to copy? It’s always interesting to me how these things turn out.  Any comments?

If you haven’t checked out/heard of the band Notorious MSG maybe it’s time you should. When a band advertises that one of it’s newer songs will “ram the poo-poo back up your anus and blow it out your ears!” you know this band has got to be good. I mean, how else am I supposed to know about the hard life in Chinatown of NYC? Please let me introduce to you the Notorious MSG Story, Hot in the Kitchen.

And here they talk about how easy it is to get sex when you are a famous star. (more…)

So, really quickly I found this cool forum, it tells the procedures of how to get your band’s name, album title and pic. Follow the directions below!

1 – Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2 – Go to Random quotations: http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

If you want to do this again, you’ll hit refresh to generate new quotes, because clicking the quotes link again will just give you the same quotes over and over again.

3 – Go to flickr’s “explore the last seven days” http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

Put it all together, that’s your debut album.

Mine is: Kanak Mani Dixit, She Found in Giftshops.

I had to share this, Russian dancing set to Run DMC’s “It’s Like That”.

In case you don’t get the references, here’s the original (ridiculously awesome) video:

A nerdy little video. I really always like it when you can see pictures in music. I just think it’s cool.