GigaOm Why Sony Ericsson Is Living in a Land of Make.Believe .

Of course, not so long ago The Register were wondering whether gesture-based gaming on a handset was make.believe.

“My theory is that the innovators are the ones that open the door to things, and then behind them there’s a huge crowd and they are trampled by the crowd behind them. And then you have to peel the innovators off the ground like in the movie, The Mask. Like a Colorform.”

In conversation with Beck Hansen.

Which is the perfect excuse to embed this:

You know, she’s a heavy equipment operator you know, she’s like a private eye and you know, she’s also like a hummingbird you know, her wings beat 800 times a second, you know and she can fly backwards. So you know, it works, you know.

Talking about collaborating with wife Kathleen Brennan.

From the nice email:

To coincide with asking radio stations to think about playing Reckoner we are breaking up the tune into pieces for you to remix. After the insane response we got from the Nude remix stems and the site that was dedicated to your remixes…

There’s Diplo and James Holden mixes available as guides.
http://radioheadremix.com

What’s not to like?

Little Richard. Check the ladies in the crowd for the big hair. Check Little Richard for crazy eyes and the best voice ever.

And a long ad for a gig by Lace Diamond in 1987. This gets a bit Poltergeist at times.

Only one white man in the world—and he’s not the pope—can tell a group of Mexicans in the United States to return to Mexico and not only avert death, but be loved for saying so.

His name: Steven Patrick Morrissey, former lead singer of the Smiths, current saint among countless young Latinos.

Morrissey’s most famous confession of unrequited love, “There Is a Light That Never Goes Out,” (“And if a double-decker bus/Crashes into us/To die by your side/Would be a heavenly way to die”) emulates almost sentiment for sentiment Cuco Sanchez’s torch song “Cama de Piedra” (“The day that they kill me/May it be with five bullets/And be close to you”).

Their Charming Man: Dispatches from the Latino Morrissey love-in by Gustavo Arellano

This is a very big deal — and not just because “In Rainbows” is Radiohead’s best album in seven years. No, this matters because they have completely eliminated the middle men between themselves and their fans. Forget iTunes. Forget record stores. Forget promoters. Just log on and start listening. Artist to fans, in one click. Every penny of revenue, straight to the artist.

The Sweet Sound of Disruption « Better Than New

Note: The link to the download site is in the post above. I had trouble downloading, perhaps because there’s a few people trying atm.