PreReview: Reviews of movies that haven’t come out yet and the reviewer hasn’t seen or otherwise have any idea about.

Ladies & Gentlemen: An all-encompassing arts magazine done in part by the fine folks across the river at Aesthetic Apparatus. It is no coincidence that it is the same size as a vinyl album.

Speak Up: You want fries with that? If design is everywhere and we’re at the helm of all things interesting and usable, why in the world do many designers remain in a reactionary service industry rather than proactively creating a consumer marketplace for themselves?

Mperia.com: Mperia is BitPass’s new online retail store for independent musicians. Artists can sign up for free, upload their songs and albums in MP3 format and sell them for whatever price they choose.

There are no daily, weekly, monthly or yearly recurring fees; we only take a percentage of each sale, so we don’t make any money unless the artist does. There are no exclusivity clauses, no length-based contracts. If you don’t like Mperia, you can remove your account and your work at any time. You can sell your MP3s anywhere else you like, for any price you like. You can compete with yourself.

And here’s the kicker: you’ll make more selling two songs via Mperia than you would selling an entire album if you were signed to a major label.

Participatory journalism in an unlikely (or likely?) place: Adrian Holovaty talks about consuming as-it-happens news from where you least expect it, and also getting it from the sources that you least expect.

Yahoo Considering Music Downloads; Interested in MusicMatch: Cue echo-y falling scream of “Noooooooooo!”

GameTab: A PC/console gaming portal that is actually well done (aka not like the other cookie-cutter gaming sites that are all seizure-inducing and/or ultra-futuristic), easy to read, well organized, and has interesting aggregated information (such as ratings averages/differentials for specific game reviewers.)

First, you could make your URL tiny, then you could make your URL huge. Now, through the magic of Internet technology, you can translate an existing URL into one that’s exactly the same!

The Top Sample Lists: Ranks movies, TV, and other sample sources based on how frequently dialogue from these sources has been sampled and used in some sort of musical context.

A Near-Perfect Flash News Portal: People are nitpicking this site under entirely unfair assumptions and agendas, and not looking at the site in the context of its audience: newly converted broadband customers.