28.5.04

frontline: the way the music died | PBS

Off the airwaves, onto the web, nothing but link.

25.5.04

Freedom to Tinker

So instead of talking about copyright, I'll let someone else do the talking.

Science & Tech. at Scientific American.com: The Myth of the Beginning of Time

An article at Scientific American.com on the subject of cosmology raises an interesting idea -- String theory suggests that the big bang was not the origin of the universe but simply the outcome of a preexisting state. There are a bunch of other feature articles at the bottom of the page that are interesting too ... check out the one about wolves at Yellowstone.

21.5.04

Occupation: Girl - Troy in Fifteen Minutes

This is spittingly funny.

14.5.04

RIAA accounting practices considered harmful

Today's Good Morning Silicon Valley has a heap o' links about how RIAA bases their sales figures on distributor-to-store shipments and not POS figures. Seems that if you look at POS figures sales have actually increased. So there.

12.5.04

But ...

It doesn't handle <pre> blocks very well. Nor does it handle long words. Wrapping sucks. I shall endeavour to be clever. (and fail, oh yes)
Oh well, as they always say, it's the endeavour that counts in horseshoes.

Dead saxy

Mah new template is daid saxy

7.5.04

Hatemail

It seems that I am a twit. The presence of an email address has resulted in (*gasp*) spam. So I changed my template a tiny, wee, bit.

29.4.04

Things that make you go hmmm.

I was hoping to find something sad so I could make my entire entry "Jesus wept" to go along with todays theme of really short entries but I came across this instead.

Dare we compare, milk with aero.

Although I guess
Jesus wept
would have worked just as well.


More info here.

Wired News: God, Send a Realistic Tech Flick

What he say.

Pain!

Well, actually, less pain.

28.4.04

Hey! Flags-of-all-nations!

Someone pulled something funny out of their sleeve.

Marillion: appetite for resurrection | The Register

Article on The Reg about how 80's band Marillion are managing to get on the UK charts with no help from the labels. Some of frontman Steve Hogarth's views on the current situation, advice for young bands.

ALLOFMP3

These russian guys are charging $5/100MB of music/video. They _say_ they are legit. The Sydney Morning Herald has an article about them.