links for 2007-05-07

New laws create second-hand woes for CD retailers: Scientific American

of course; antiquated business models must be protected by even more antiquated laws – consumer rights be damned

(tags: CD music industry fairuse)
Indie labels plan to pull out of digital service – Yahoo! News

“A handful of independent record labels are poised to launch what they are calling a “revolt” against digital subscription service eMusic” – potentially terrible news for music fans, eMusic subscribers, and artists everywhere

(tags: indie music labels eMusic DRM via:Steve)
Sometimes You Can Go Home Again – New York Times

not sure i’d want to move back there, but Williamstown appears to draw a fair amount of alums back – i personally know at least two that have bought houses there

(tags: Williamstown Williams residence retiring collegetowns via:Bree)
Christopher Blizzard » Blog Archive » one laptop per child and open source

i really need to write up some of the recent OLPC news

(tags: OLPC ChristopherBlizzard opensource NicholasNegroponte)
Dynamic Language Runtime – Miguel de Icaza

Miguel’s thoughts on the DLR release @ MIX

(tags: migueldeicaza DLR Mono dynamiclanugages Python Ruby Javascript)