Cornholio

I can hear him now:

I am Cornholio!

I found this on the interestingness page on Flickr, it seems that I’m not the only one who loves this shot. You can click the image to go to the original.

There’s a Wolverine in My Science

I’m going through all my notes at the moment, trying to learn for my Master’s Degree exams. I occasionally, or more frequently, or well…. I take breaks. In one of my many ventures into the land of the interweb, I found this. It’s an article from the Science Creative Quarterly, and it made me laugh out loud. Especially the section that descirbes an experiment, akin to Schrödinger’s cat, will result in a zombie wolverine.

Read of the world if the climate in Ancient Greece were a sloght colder. I’m submitting my own writings to it too, I’ll let you know if I get published. Oh, and any insight into my Medical Physics exams would be most appreciated.

Google - Advice to Reduce Carbon Footprint

In keeping with the focus on cutting one’s carbon emissions, and lowering one’s carbon footprint, our well loved search engine is going to far.

When searching for the best way to travel from New York to London, go to Google’s maps (click the image above) and read their directions, especially number 23. Although driving is recommended while on terra firma, they recommend swimming across the Atlantic! Presumably this will make up for all those nasty emissions we put out during the rest of the year.

The final kick in the teeth? After swimming for 3,462 miles, you’re fatigued, delerious, dehydrated and hungry, and what do you hear…

“Bonjour!”
Ahh, if Google ruled the world.

DRM-Free Tracks to be Sold on iTunes

Gracefulflavor

I understand why people don’t particularly like DRM on their tracks, but let’s not forget that it allowed the iTS possible. I’m hesistant to hail this is a killer move; but a great option, yes.

I wonder how long it will take for all the non-DRM tracks to be available over sharing networks like BitTorrent. Call me naïve but I do think that too many people will take advantage of this to get more free music. I know lots will be careful enough to not put them in a shared folder for the world t see, but there’s many stupid people out there.

I’ll get slated for this, but I like DRM, it has allowed me to get the music I want, simply and cheaply. The iTS enabled me to buy music, rather than paying for overpriced CDs. Having the option to choose your player is great, but I love iPods, and I think its very important that people don’t steal.

Anyway, if I wanted to put all my stuff on another player I’d burn it and rip it(which would take forever), I’d never share it, I have a conscience. Please don’t think I’m implying everyone who has non-DRM music is a criminal, but there are enough people out there who copy music to damage iTunes sales in the long-run.

The best part of this is the higher bit-rate of these unprotected tracks. I’ll buy some for that reason alone, but don’t expect to get them off me!

UPDATE: Just listening to the news on BBC Radio 1, only the biggest radio station in the UK, broadcast worldwide; and what was their headline?

“Why it will now be a little easier for you to share music with your mates.”

That’s irresponsible.