Links for 9.26.07: Halo 3, more Amazon + how your brain eats music

by Josh Kimball

*Perhaps you have heard of this Halo 3 creation?

*More Daring Fireball analysis of Amazon MP3 Store here. At the end he asks how eMusic has lasted as long as it has without offering prospective customers the ability to browse its catalog. Answer: they were pretty much the only one’s selling MP3′s!

*Oliver Sacks in Wired on music and the brain.

*The New York Times on the hip-hop hearings.

*Are you ready for the Brokeback Mountain opera? [guardian]

*The BBC on optimizing music for play on iPods. [largehearted boy]

*What happens when you combine a music synthesizer and a videogame joystick? The Thummer. [red ferret]

*The BBC hires former Kazaa CTO Anthony Rose to help develop the next iteration of its iPlayer.

*Kelly from The Office reviews the Arcade Fire and LCD Soundsystem. [guardian]