40 Noises That Built Pop

The Word Magazine has an extensive online article about what it believes were the 40 Noises That Built Pop. Obviously not everyone will agree with their picks but certainly worth a read.

How To Enable NTFS On The Mac

Someone in your family or a good friend has just brought a brand new shiny Mac and has attempted to hook up their USB hard drive full of multi-media goodness when ... *BA DA*!!! The drive doesn't show up and you get a frantic phone call. Whatcha gonna do?

Point them at Macfuse and (hopefully) the problem should just disappear.

EDIT: You'll also have to install NTFS-3G for Mac OS X

The Second Great Contraction

This article from Aljazeera is scary, scary stuff. In one of the best reasoned economic statements I've ever read in ages the author argues that we are not in fact in a recession but in a depression (or a Great Contraction). The misdiagnosis may cause more problems than it solves...

The Guy On The CoverOf "Abbey Road"