Obama '08 - Vote For Hope from MC Yogi on Vimeo.

What kind of presidential candidate evokes such vibrant artistry? (and from a yogi, no less.)

The kind for which I will vote.

What do you get when you combine a Last.fm profile and Amazon's MP3 Downloads?

You get personally tuned, streaming radio (my favorite is "My Neighborhood" in Discovery Mode) with inexpensive, non-DRM, high-quality (256Kbps VBR) MP3 downloads just a few clicks away.

Wow. I just suddenly realized how much the iTunes Music Store missed the Web 2.0 boat. Good luck Apple; I'll still buy your computers & OS.

Here's a quick demo of how the Last.fm-Amazon combo works...

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In what 750-page tome do you get fugal themes of formal systems, Tortoise & Mr. Crab, canons of dialog, artificial intelligence, genetics, hardwired behaviors of a wasp, consciousness, records that break record players, & etchings of strange loops?

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

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