riffcheck.com

Musicians upload new riffs they've made up.

Fans of music go to the site and listen to riffs and indicate which songs they think the riff rips off.

Plays on the fear of every musician (particularly guitarists) who worry everything they make up has been done before, they just haven't heard it, or can't remember. Uses the distributed power of musicial nerdom to confirm their fears.

Problems: Artists worried their riffs will be stolen and used in popular songs without them getting credit.

Solutions: In uploading your riff to an independant site you stamp it as your own, depending on riffcheck "rip off" feedback of course. It might be just a slight alteration of a Jimi Hendrix obscure classic and your complaint might be meaningless.

Much fun to be had for all.

Someone with more time than me go and build it.

I've been reading far to much rubbish lately. I don't mean comics. I mean newspapers on the train.

I endevour to read more books. I've grabs a list of "award winning" books from the net and am currently crossing off what I haven't read.

I also need to get around to reading past Children of Dune in the original Dune series. Bring on God Emperor.

Digging it up from libraries is irritating but doable. I need to go into the library to change my address again. I can't reserve anything as my phone number has changed and I can't remember my old one. Why can't I just give them my fingerprint over the phone or something.

Where's my flying Jetsons car!?

Another post went missing. Posting again briefly.

iTunes Australia? $1.80 per track? Blabbed by Rusty Crowe.

http://blogs.theage.com.au/barkersbyte/archives/2005/04/itunes_is_here.html