Musical user interfaces, copyright companies being themselves, the worst of Rolling Stone.

A project to come up with better music creation interfaces. “Which one of these is hardware, and which is software?” What would music software look like if you weren’t starting from an imitation mixing desk? The subpages include examples with video. (Hacker News discussion.)
The Copyright Society of the USA’s lesson for World IP Day: give us your copyright for nothing. Presumably an informative insight into how the organisations that promote copyright actually think.
Rolling Stone‘s 500 Worst Record Reviews, as rated by a sufferer.