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Apple Launches iTunes Music Store in Canada. $0.99 a song, a nice discount from the US, and a decent selection of Canadian artists as well.

with Jeff Tweedy is great: Music Is Not a Loaf of Bread.

WN: You don’t agree with the argument that file sharing hurts musicians’ ability to earn a living?
Tweedy: I don’t believe every download is a lost sale.
WN: What if the efforts to stop unauthorized music file sharing are successful? How would that change culture?
Tweedy: If they succeed, it will damage the culture and industry they say they’re trying to save.

some good thoughts about his experience at an open meeting with members of the Canada Council on the new funding scheme for visual arts. He raises some valuable points that I wish would be addressed by someone. It’s particularly disturbing to understand that though they are making a radical move to funding exhibitions, not artists, that they didn’t seem to have an overarching principle guiding that change.

on the Canadian scene: Kevin Smith to appear on Degrassi. He’ll be playing a fictionalized version of himself and Silent Bob. There have been conflicting reports about whether Jay will appear with his silent sidekick or not. Scootchie Bootchies, yo!

death of Derrida from Steven Johnson: Derrida Is Dead. Long Live Derrida!
A personal remembrance rather than an over-glib tongue-in-cheek smack like so many are lining up to publish.