The Hopp Stop

links for 2009-09-17

• The cost of the Medicare prescription drug benefit
  Hmm, interesting. Perhaps the prescription drug benefit makes economic sense in the big picture.
  (tags: econ health)
• Pauline's Pizza adds a wine bar
  And Gialina is scouting out a second location!
  (tags: sanfran food)
• Music Scrobbling as a Panopticism of Taste < Features | PopMatters
  Nothing like an essay on Last.fm that references Foucault and Bentham. But in seriousness, I enjoyed reading this take.
  (tags: music culture)
• Media Cache - Radiohead Blazes a Marketing Trail - NYTimes.com
  Interesting to read that Radiohead plans to move away from LPs towards perhaps singles and EPs, having read much in the last week about how the Beatles caused the record industry to move from singles and EPs to LPs in the late '60s.
  (tags: music)