The Omniscient Mussel

Wednesday Links

  • Amanda at Life’s A Pitch is taking ideas for an All-You-Can-Hear pricing scheme. It’s a rather good idea and one, if sensibly priced, could bring reasonable amount of additional revenue.
  • If cheap ticket prices don’t work, what about lining the front of the stage with a series of Reuben’s tubes? Miss Mussel would bet that there are not many people that can resist the allure of dancing flames, no matter what the genre.
  • The OM’s Viennese correspondent has directed our attention to the European Archive, a repository of film, recordings and images that are culturally important to Europe. The rather ambitious remit of this non-profit is to “universal access to all knowledge.”

    At the moment, the Archive is a rather strange combination of European government websites, public education films from the UK and 842 classcial music records available for free download.

  • “Show me something pleasurable and I’ll show you something which is very likely associated with Pleistocene adaptation.” A new book by Denis Dutton, the man behind Arts & Letters Daily, aims to find out why humans produce art.
  • Tim Rutherford Johnson has an excellent roundup of opinions surrounding the EU’s proposal to extend copyright to 95 years.

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