Bedslide makes a unique sliding ultility for loading and unloading trucks. Basically, it turns your truck bed into a sliding drawer.

Eric told me recently

The marketing department [at Bedslide] wanted
to use something with a hard rock sound for music.
Thankfully we had your Speed Demons CD.

Here is the spot, shot for under $3000. Neat product.

Wikipedia apparently has entered the political arena, closing the site for one day to protest the SOPA bill.

What’s interesting to me is the notion that the knowledge collected by Wikipedia, freely given by volunteers spending untold hours contributing to the site, can be leveraged by the site’s owners to support their own politics.

I don’t know that that meets the approval of the many, varied, unpaid writers that contribute freely to Wikipedia or so-called crowdsource or “open source” platforms.

In an article titled The importance of Wikipedia published Nov 30, 2011 on opensource.com, Susan Hewitt, a 63-year old contributor to Wikipedia says

“Wikipedia is self-organizing and self-correcting,”. “There is no boss and police force, yet at this point in its development it’s perfectly clear that it works really well.” Wikipedia calls to the better angels of people’s nature, and those angels respond.

No police force, but apparently a higher power.

It’s the downside of the concept of a free web. The truth is there are powers behind the free web and they can use their power when it suits them. Now it’s free, now it’s not. Who decides? Well, we saw this week who decides.

Interestingly, a paid product, Encyclopedia Britannica, for instance, could not be so leveraged. Once you purchase it, it is yours. It can’t be removed from your home by the publishers because they don’t agree with your politics. Is that what we pay for? Ownership? Control? Privacy? Autonomy?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubris

There is also a fine selection of electric blues tracks, something of a throwback to 1970s guitar god jam band playing. These tracks are a rare addition to the royalty free genre.

The country instrumentals feature plenty of dynamic guitar-picking and the Latin-influenced acoustic guitar tunes will help bring out the sun.

Guitar Heaven was composed and produced for UniqueTracks by Canadian composer Neil Cross.

Modern Pop is an eclectic mix of hip hop, rock, funk, ambient and urban club styles from producer Sekani Williams of the Arts and Kraphts Galleries. The album is a set of 28 full length tracks that will fit into any production looking for a contemporary edge. Tracks feature deep, pumping bass, sparkling percussion and inventive effects.

You’ll find laid back guitar ballads here as well as streetwise Hip Hop tracks. If you need music for a video production, multimedia project, game app, TV commercial of indie film, Modern Pop has you covered.

There are 21 full-length themes here. Each song is presented with several edits including an alternate mix where the main melody is pulled out of the mix. This can be helpful if you are using the track in a game and need more of a pad or muted background. Most tracks are cut right at a loop point so they can easily be extended in your editor.

These songs are just fun. They fit non-game related productions too, from quirky commercial beds to wacky YouTube Cats videos.

Have a listen. You will recognize this sound…