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Freemason Information -
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Freemason Information is a Masonic web magazine for both Freemasons and those interested in the fraternity.Kindle blogs are fully downloaded onto your Kindle so you can read them even when you're not wirelessly connected. And unlike RSS readers which often only provide headlines, blogs on Kindle give you full text content and images, and are updated wirelessly throughout the day.

Information Society
$13.96
I've been listening to synthpop ever since it happened. It was usually a UK/Euro phenomenon. But by the early 80s there were US synthpop bands like Our Daughters Wedding that were playing catch up to their UK counterparts. By the late 80s synthpop was moribund when this band appeared. I passed them over in the day. But I'd picked up a (shudder) Madonna Tribute album on Cleopatra a few years back just to get the [not worth it] Heaven 17 cover of "Holiday" but when I listened to the disc, INSOC's cover of "Respect Yourself" just popped off of the disc. Their take of the Madonna tune was not unlike their sound on their big hit "What's On Your Mind." It just hit me a lot better in the 21st century, so I resolved to get some INSOC and listen. That tune sounds better now and being followed by the superb "Tomorrow," I was sure I was going to have a new toy. Then came an Abba cover that added nothing after which came "Repitition," the dreaded mid-80s synth ballad featuring that soporific mellow electric piano with reverb keyboard preset [probably from a hated DX-7] that I DESPISE SO and I'm happy to dock this fair-to-middling effort a full star. The rest is listenable but inconseqential American late-80s synthpop. Maybe a best of would work better for me.

It Is Useless to Resist Us: 25 Years of Information Society
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In typical Information Society fashion, this DVD is beyond 5 stars and is excellent in both it's concept, production, material, and quality. I pre-ordered it and have viewed/listened to it about a dozen times since it arrived. I can't rate it highly enough. Whether you are an old fan, new fan, curious observer, or someone who like me (who is all of those things) and just can't get enough about what this band was, is, and will always will be, you won't be disappointed. Money VERY well spent. I'd easily pay $100 for this DVD. I hope IS keeps releasing past items like videos on DVD and keeps creating new music/concepts/ideas/world/life commentaries both now and long into the future. The world needs a band like this to keep everything in perspective. Enjoy.

An Introduction to Information Theory
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This is a very well written book. It cleared up many problems I had in understanding the basics of information theory. The only real fault of the book is that it was written in 1982 or so thus some new developments in information theory -- like Susskind's discovery of the maximum information that can be contained in a given volume -- are missing.