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2008/6/3

The New Yorker has a podcast, in which music critic Sasha Frere-Jones looks at AutoTune, the pitch-correction software used on many recordings. He does this by going into a studio with a producer and singing (not brilliantly), after which the producer demonstrates various AutoTune settings as applied to his vocal.

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Kevin Brockmeier's The Brief History of the Dead , an interesting short story postulating an afterlife not unlike the world of the living, and its interaction with events in the living world.