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...song on the radio will have a hard time hearing Auto-Tune's impact; it's effectively deceptive. But when track after track has perfect pitch, the songs are harder to differentiate from one another--which explains why pop is in a pretty serious lull at the moment. It also changes the way we hear unaffected voices. "The other day, someone was talking about how Aretha Franklin at the Inauguration was a bit pitchy," says Anderson. "I said, 'Of course! She was singing!' And that was a musician talking. People are getting used to hearing things dead on pitch...
...corner, downing an impotent Utah beer and staring at a roomful of younger, hipper, less competitive people. They really were just happy to have their work shown to an eager audience. And for at least that moment, I was happy to have talked about myself to celebrities, eaten free food and drunk an enormous quantity of free absinthe. In fact, Defamer.com called me "the most coddled noncelebrity at Sundance." Which could form the basis of a pretty good short for this June's CineVegas festival...
President Asif Ali Zardari, Bhutto's widower, has a small plurality in Parliament, little sway over Pakistan's all-powerful military and none of the charisma of his murdered wife. But for the moment, he will probably be Holbrooke's most enthusiastic partner. For all of Zardari's flaws, says Riedel, "he gets it: he knows this is as much his war as it is ours." Zardari can't ignore the now routine terrorist strikes within Pakistan; suicide bombers have attacked major cities, killing hundreds. Besides, since Bhutto's death, Zardari is at the top of al-Qaeda...
...women in the 1920s who gave birth on the factory floor and kept working for fear of losing their job. Another called her choice "scandalous" since employers could use it to "put intolerable pressure on women" to take less time off. What a pernicious example at a moment when workers are already anxious about their security...
...former editor-in-chief of Business 2.0, has spent more than a year thinking and reporting on this idea. The advent of the iPhone and devices like it--killer gadgets connected to a store where one can make a micropayment with the touch of a button--was his eureka moment. I think Walter's and Josh's insight, reporting and experience are well worth paying for. I trust you do too. Freedom isn't free--nor is great journalism...