pages tagged FrankZappahroy.euhttps://hroy.eu/tags/FrankZappa/hroy.euikiwiki2020-06-20T12:34:09Zhttps://hroy.eu/quotes/recordBusiness/2020-06-20T12:34:09Z2015-03-15T22:05:17Z
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<p>Most of the hardware devices are, even as you read this, available
as off-the-shelf items, just waiting to be plugged into each other in
order to put an end to the record business as we know it.</p>
<p><cite>Frank Zappa with Peter Occhiogrosso, <em>The Real Frank Zappa
Book</em> (p. 336, Chapter 18, “Failure”), A Touchstone Book,
published by Simon & Schuster, 1988-1989. Also see, “<a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20160423130253/http://www.zappa.com/whatsnew/news/FZ-Proposal/">A proposal for a system to replace phonograph record
merchandising</a>”.</cite></p>
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https://hroy.eu/quotes/informationIsNot/2017-09-20T22:26:51Z2014-12-11T13:46:04Z
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<p>Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best…</p>
<p><cite>Frank Zappa, “Packard Goose”, <em>Joe’s Garage Act III</em> (1979)</cite></p>
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https://hroy.eu/quotes/deviationFromTheNorm/2017-09-20T22:26:51Z2014-11-25T14:32:26Z
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<p>Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.</p>
<p><cite>Frank Zappa (1940-1993) <a href="https://hroy.eu//www.youtube.com/embed/mOHCV-QO5HA">video</a></cite></p>
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https://hroy.eu/notes/web-history/2014-10-21T15:31:06Z2014-03-14T10:11:24Z
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<p>Frank Zappa used to say that he viewed some of his work as
journalism: reporting what he saw around him in society. Thus, if
historians from the future want to learn more about our society,
looking at rock songs might be a good start.</p>
<p>Well, now we have the web, and with blogging, we’ve got way better
materials for historians in the future. Although, as usual, the
biggest challenge here is that most of the links from 2001
blogging don’t work any more. Most of the time, professional
editors and big companies are usually better in <a href="http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html" title="Cool URIs don’t change">keeping their
URI cool</a>.</p>
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<p>All I ask you to do today is go back to 2001 -- a big moment in
the history of blogging. The archive page is in
reverse-chronologic order, so you might want to start at the <a
href="http://scripting.com/2001/09.html#sayAPrayerForTheBabyBoomers">bottom</a>
and scroll up. <span class="divPgfPermaLink"><a
href="http://scripting.com/2014/03/13/lookingBackTo2001.html#aAIAYT">#</a></span></p></p>
<p><a
href="http://scripting.com/2001/09.html">http://scripting.com/2001/09.html</a><span
class="divPgfPermaLink"><a href="http://scripting.com/2014/03/13/lookingBackTo2001.html#aAH">#</a></span></p></p>
<p>That's the kind of flow I am going to have
again. I've been blogging in this form, off on the side, since
March 2. To me it isn't theoretical that it will work, I already
know it will. <span class="divPgfPermaLink"><a
href="http://scripting.com/2014/03/13/lookingBackTo2001.html#aTTKOF">#</a></p>
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