The lights. The pretty lights. I can’t stop looking at the lights. A few hours ago I thought I was hungry, then the lights came on. They lulled my hunger away. Maybe the lights are trying to tell me somethings? I have to find the pattern. The light pattern will be the answer to everything. They’re so pretty. They never judge. What day is it? Who cares. Time doesn’t matter when you’re engulfed by the lights. I love you lights. Money does’nt doesn’t matter. Okay, money still still matters. It mattered when I bought the lights for $80. I saved $20. That $20 can be used to blackout the windows in my apartment so I can stare into the lights without being distracted by other light sources. -RB More »

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Panasonic’s released its 2012 quarterly report (its financial year runs from summer to summer) and concedes it’s been as bad for them as it was for Sony and Sharp. It’s blaming the Japanese Earthquake for damaging its supply chain, a strong yen for keeping prices high, plus having to write-down the costs for its acquisition of Sanyo. The company’s promising to restructure (in the face of stern competition from Samsung and LG) to become a “green innovation” business as well as to streamline its operating costs. It’s predicting a quarterly loss of $9.2 billion as it takes the hit for this turmoil, and it doesn’t look like things will improve with an anticipated further loss of another $2 billion at the end of the (financial) year.

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A few moments ago, version 2 of the Banshee music player for Linux was released, bringing with it a whole slew of new features, and the addition of an official — but alpha-quality — Windows build. The Mac OS X build of version 2 is due later today.

The most notable new feature is support for the Amazon MP3 store — you can buy and download music from within Banshee — but unfortunately it’s only available in the Linux build at the moment (OS X and Windows support are planned, however). There have also been some significant improvements to artist, album, and queue interactions — and yes, you can finally right click a track, album or artist and select ‘play after’ to insert it into the queue.

Beyond actual playback, the user interface has been tidied up — it now looks a whole lot smarter — and the Ubuntu One Music Store and SoundMenu extensions have been made official. For a complete list of changes, additions and bug fixes, check the change log.

When Windows support initially appeared in February, we found it rough around the edges and fraught with stability issues. With version 2, Banshee for Windows is still a bit unstable, but it’s shaping up to be a good alternative to Winamp, iTunes, or whatever other music library manager you use. It’s almost as attractive as its GNOMEish brother, too!

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