Rocknerd stories, week ending 04 August 2008.

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• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Poochie.

  In the MPAA’s consumer assault, consider the shiny 5¼” disk as the Maginot Line.

• The alcohol loves you whilst turning you blue.

  Lots more old Party Fears scans up, courtesy Nick Potter, who decided I was being a slackarse and so got on with it himself.

• Shake the disease.

  If you keep doing obnoxious things to lots and lots of people, they may start talking.

• Declare the pennies on your eyes.

  ACTA is the "everything and a pony" Christmas wish list of the media companies.

• Warm leatherette.

  From 1956: the lost work of genius of car stereo.

• Rewired for sound.

  Of course, the real alternative to the iPod is a cheap Chinese MP3 player labeled "MP4" (a blatant lie you wish the MPEG LA would bother wielding their considerable trademark dicks concerning).

• Welcome to the antisocial.

  The Edsel of music players, its very name signifying miserable failure, has lost the heart of its greatest fan.

Pub.

Family day down the Pembury imminent! I plan to stay out till all hours, redcountess may not, arkady and Freda will probably manage an hour or two. Anyone else? See you there!