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Metallica: Silver goes the Black Album

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Metallica released its biggest selling album on August 12, 1991; that’s twenty-five years ago to the date. Metallica’s self-titled album, spawned five singles:

  1. “Enter Sandman”
  2. “The Unforgiven”
  3. “Nothing Else Matters”
  4. “Wherever I May Roam”
  5. “Sad But True”

“The Black Album” as it is commonly referred to, went on to sell more than 16 million copies as of August, 2015 in the United States alone. Per Wikipedia article, It has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide. In February, 2016 “The Black Album” was selling about 5,000 units per week; better than many newly released records that month.

“The Black Album” was the record that helped Metallica break into the mainstream music scene.

On May 7, 2012 Metallica performed “The Black Album” in its entirety from the last song to the first in Prague, Czech Republic.

I still play songs from the record to this day as it is one of my all time favorite along with the first four Metallica records.

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About the Apple Patent that can disable cameras

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Must be a slow Tech news day for and old story making the round again.

Stereogum:

Apple Patents Technology To Disable iPhone Cameras At Concerts

Jason Snell chimed in and said:

I hope this is one patent Apple puts in the drawer and never, ever implements.

Then Gruber said:

This must be patent anything you can get a patent for patent.

Déjà vu! I remembered reading abou this some years ago.

Patently Apple on June 02, 2011:

This example could easily apply to movie theatres trying to stop customers from filming a movie for illegal distribution or any kind of music concert to protect an artist’s image from being photographed or videoed illegally

Even back then a lot of us agreed that this is just like what Gruber just said.

To quote Bad Religion:

Strewn about the battlefield of life are the remainders of history.
When convenient, we exalt them and pay them such respect,
As if we’re all in an equivalent trajectory.

Apparently a lot of people can easily forget.

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June 13, 2016: WWDC 2016 Keynote

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Apple kicks off WWDC 2016 with a Keynote from Bill Graham Civic Auditorium at 10:00 am, today. Live Stream of the Keynote is available at Apple.com, and Apple TV.

Expected to make appearances today are the next version of iOS, watchOS, tvOS and macOS (formerly OS X, so the rumors said). Remember, this is a Developer Conference, any hardware announcements would be icing on the cake.

Hello WWDC16

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Dream Theater: The Astonishing Autographed Poster

Dream Theater The Astonishing Autograph Poster

Originally set for release date of March 25, 2016 and delayed several times, The Astonishing Boxset is set to ship on June 17, 2016.

To bribe reward Dream Theater fans who preordered the boxset, Roadrunner Records sends out autographed posters of The Astonishing.

I personally can make out James LaBrie’s and John Myung’s autograph. I would assume the on on the top right is Mike Mangini’s. I can’t figure out which one is Jordan Rudess’ and which one is John Petrucci’s.

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Solved: Mystery of Kit Harington’s Spontaneously Combusting Pants

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No real spoiler alert!

On May 1, 2016 HBO revealed the reasons why Kit Harington’s pants have been spontaneously combusting since Game of Thrones season 5 cliffhanger.

Then again, reader of the “A Song of Ice and Fire” series and keen-eyed viewers of “Game of Thrones” might have caught on numbers of hints seeded throught the series.

For those who would like to look for those hints should re-watch the whole series again from the beginning.

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