I was browsing through Yottamusic's catalog today when I found, amazingly, that Rhapsody had added the bulk of Dischord Records' roster to their library. This is very exciting to me. I don't always like Dischord music enough to buy it on LP (although Dischord CDs and LPs are always $10 postage paid), and I'm sure I can just borrow it from Alex anyway. I used to grab stuff from Emusic, but I haven't been a member there for a while. So, to Ian Mackaye and his label: DRM might be a great evil of the world and enemy to music, but thanks for making your music available in all formats.

For those who don't know, this includes a glut of great mostly DC hardcore, including some originals (Minor Threat, SOA), those bands that branched out and created emo (Rites of Spring, Embrace, Dag Nasty), those that went zen (the mighty Lungfish), and those that featured the Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl (Scream).

In tribute, here is a great video of Ian Mackaye ripping on the term "emo" some 20 years before its goofy resurgence. (Video description on the Youtube permalink has the transcript if you can't hear him)

Just wanted to post about some of the interesting new (to me) technology thingies I've seen lately.

• Joost of course. Everyone's watching Joost these days, and they do have some pretty good shows. But it's stil somewhat incomplete at this point. We have Charlie's Angels, sure, but where's the A-Team? The service itself seems to work fairly well, and keeps improving every time I use the program. And, it responds to the Apple Remote.
  
• On the same note, the DivX web player is a nice web-based video player. It's not really any different than QuickTime or anything else, with the obvious exception that it plays DivX web content. The thing that's neat, though, is the feature that dims the rest of the screen outside the player while you're watching. Useful and slick.
• Yottamusic is a web-based front end for Real's Rhapsody that has an underdeveloped social layer and has been around for a while apparently. It seems to crash less than Rhapsody's own native version (which is either a Firefox extension or IE ActiveX control), and it even runs in Safari without any installations. Best of all, it submits Rhapsody plays to Last.fm. I don't think I'll be using the buggy Rhapsody app for anything other than transferring tracks to my player.
• Tick. Gah. I'm constantly in search of some time tracking app, preferably web-based or at least with a web component. Tick seemed neat – it didn't have a built-in timer but a dashboard widget fixes that issue. Unfortunately, Tick's servers are incredibly unreliable, their Ajax-y interface often doesn't save changes, and the free account doesn't allow for much. Normally, account limitations are fine, but for a service that only seems to work some of the time, I have a hard time spending even a little money. Any ideas for Mac or web-based time tracking?