Interesting Links for 11-05-2014

• If Conan was your life-coach... (I wish the shipping from the USA wasn't so high!)
  (tags: conan advice comic )
• Cats with unlikely best-friends
  (tags: cats cute )
• Honeybees abandoning hives and dying due to insecticide use
  (tags: bees pesticide )
• The woman claiming veteran's benefits...from the civil war.
  (tags: war usa benefits )
• Could Disney finally give us the remastered, unedited Star Wars some fans want?
  (tags: starwars disney )
• Mobile is burning, and free-to-play binds the hands of devs who want to help
  (tags: gaming games phones free design viaMyBrotherMike )
• The Microscopic Structures of Dried Human Tears
  (tags: art photography emotion )

Streaming music is not the problem.

There's a lot of discussion out there about compensating artists, and how poorly Spotify, Pandora, etc. pay.

The most recent one came from Bette Midler, who said that 4million plays got her $114. Which, I think people would agree, is a pittance.

Except, of course, that that's not the amount that Pandora paid out. They paid out $6,400. Of which Bette Midler then received $114.

I'd say the problem here wasn't Pandora, it was whoever took the other 98% of the cash before it reached her...

Mailing list software recommendations?

A mailing list I'm on is using Mailman. Which stores your password in plain text (and will email it back to you).

This is clearly rubbish. Any suggestions for better free/open software that I can recommend?