ongoing · Music and Money: Tim Bray takes a look at the current state of the Music business, and I'd saying things are looking encouraging. I'm still not sold on subscriptions, though.

Apple rivals DVD with new iTunes Extras for movies and albums — RoughlyDrafted Magazine: While I, along with many other Mac fans, would love to see Blu-Ray support in Mac OS X, I think yesterday's announcement of \"iTunes Extras\" is pretty-much the final nail in that coffin. Unless the Blu-Ray market really takes off, and Apple finds that people aren't buying Macs due to their lack of Blu-Ray, then Apple is going to continue down their own road.

IEEE Spectrum: New-Breed Browsers Are Harder to Hack: Short article mentions a new browser out of UIUC, \"Opus Palladianum\". Looks like there is just a research paper online for now -- no code to play with.

Welcome to AnandTech.com [ Article: Beginnings of the Holodeck: AMD's DX11 GPU, Eyefinity and 6 Display Outputs]: \"Wanna see what 24.5 million pixels looks like?\" It actually looks pretty cool, albeit impractical for all but the most hardcore gamer.

Facebook’s Experimental Desktop Notifications App For Mac Is Very, Very Slick: This looks a lot like Tweetie for Mac. I'm pretty bad about checking facebook, but if this app is the real deal, I might get better...