Tag archive: Duran Duran

Back in the Days of Yore, before netbooks and mobile phones and even (shudder) Walkmans, there was the 9-inch vinyl 45 rpm single. On sale in record stores everywhere, 45s were designed by the industry to be a cheaper alternative to buying entire albums, offering consumers a chance to buy just the songs they liked from a particular artist—45s were also huge for jukebox systems, enabling players to pop in a dime (or, later, a quarter!)… Read More

Users of the popular online game Second Life have received a bit of a shock: the game's creator, Linden Lab, has requested all the game's players change their passwords following a security breach in which an attacker may have gotten away with players' names, addresses, passwords, and encrypted credit card information. According to Linden Lab, the exploit was discovered on September 6, and was shut down immediately; the… Read More