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The new Death Cab album leaked a few hours ago. It’s 2:30am and I’m listening to it in bed on my computer. It sounds tinny and flat—which you could attribute to my laptop speakers—but it’s easy to tell, before I even finish the whole thing, that the band’s best work is behind them. People will blame this on Atlantic, and they’ll blame it on the success of The Postal Service, and they’ll call them sellouts. But it really doesn’t have anything to do with that: even the best songwriters only have a few albums worth of genius material in them, and these guys already did their few and then some. Eventually you’re just not as hungry anymore. #

Mike hooked me up with a pass to SIGGRAPH at the LA Convention Center today. The main concourse was just boring trade show stuff, but the emerging technologies and art exhibit parts were great. I took a bunch of photos (you’re not really supposed to), but they only yelled at me once. #