Mark has written a nice rant about the whole Napster/Anti-Napster debate.
What I find so amusing is the whole irrelevancy of Napster; enormous amounts of illicit data were traded before Napster was even a gleam in some coder’s eye, and even more is traded today, without ever touching a Nap server. All this fuss about Napster is akin to running front-page newspaper articles about a speeding ticket in Idaho that happened in 1972.
Eventually, I’m getting new glasses. I say eventually because the people at America’s Best Eyeglasses don’t seem very interested in common mammalian traits such as moving, breathing, or completing orders in a timely fashion. In the meantime, I’ve been reading more about the shape memory alloys that my frames are composed of. Be careful with that article, kids. It’s pretty dense.
Yeah, this is bringing back a few supressed high-school memories for me: A lot of Popular KidsTM electing themselves as kings and queens of their own little circle-jerk. Why bother voting? The outcome will be as easy as an acronym: BBBUKEMS&SFBNR.
All webpages should look like this one.
Don’t blame me, kids. It’s the fault of those freaks over at Mass Distraction.
Just in case we get hit with a late “Mad Max” apocalypse, read this page to learn how to make your own biodiesel fuel out of ordinary household products.
I’ve linked to several articles by Bill Beaty, but for some reason I’ve never read his entire site.
Science Hobbyist is a mad scientist’s dream: there’s everything here from a huge collection of unusual phenomena to weird science to common textbook errors.
All throughout recorded history there have been tales of meteors, and many of them have included stories of sounds, as well as lights. Given the improbability of hearing a rapidly-moving object from so far away, these tales have been dismissed as sensory errors. Now, however, some researchers believe to have discovered the secret to these sounds. More info here.