Our perceptions of Bukowski, like our perceptions of Kerouac, are muddied by the fact that many of his most ardent fans are nitwits who love him to the exclusion of any of his contemporaries. I would suggest you can appreciate Bukowski with the same brain that loves Wallace Stegner and Gary Snyder.
From the New York Times’ review of Bukowski’s new book of poetry “The Pleasures of the Damned: Poems, 1951-1993“.
Since the death of OiNK just under a month ago, the BitTorrent community has been frantically searching for a replacement tracker that is just as good. Two trackers, specifically, have been touted as the “official” replacement, what.cd and waffles.fm on social news sites such as Digg and reddit. There is, however, another tracker that is already considerably larger than both of those trackers, STMusic.
STMusic has had no coverage the conventional websites but has had the advantage of open registrations for the first couple weeks after OiNK was closed. This meant that nobody had to beg for an invite on any large forum and would also partially explain why nobody heard of it.
Waffles.fm and what.cd created a large interest and buzz in their websites by limiting the amount of users that were able to register. This helped with viral marketing but may lead to the eventual downfall of these private trackers. With so few users, there are not enough leachers to get many users ratios up to a decent level. Right now, there are over 4 times as many torrents as there are users with thousands being added every day. As it stands, even people who upload torrents are not getting enough hits to be a good incentive.
If waffles.fm and what.cd are going to work, they need to start allowing more users in. By increasing the amount of users, they will water down the over saturated base of uploaders. A good torrent site needs people who don’t upload but simply download and keep torrents alive.
In this age where the Christmas season starts in july and retail stores begin rolling out their holiday festivity sets somewhere around February, one retailer has decided to keep it traditional. Nordtsrom is not rolling out it’s Christmas decor until after Thanksgiving. This is a risky move considering this weekend before has become like a second black friday where stores excessively mark down items. However, I am now much more likely to shop at Nordstrom simply because of this gesture.
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