Category: Aside

According to a news story on Wired, baseball parks are upgrading their jumbotron TV sets to broadcast in HD. Their rationale? According to the Astros’ senior director of creative services (which sounds like a made-up job title to me…): “Fans are watching games on high-definition [television], so when they come out to the ballpark we want things to be in high-definition, as well…” What? Whaaat? Surely reality is already the highest definition possible, already? Stupidest thing I’ve heard in years! Just open your eyes, peoples! Read more

Most played artists of the last 12 months, according to my Last FM profile. I had no idea I was such a big Cure fan… Read more

Big In Colombia! Weblogs from this site show that the vast majority of my hits are from Colombia, closely followed by Russia. I’d like to think that that’s just my biggest fanbase, but realistically it’s just spammers and hackers. I knew Russia were big in that area, but Colombia? Maybe we’re finally winning the drug war, only to force them into a far more annoying occupation. Read more

Funny what people are searching for. This is what Google Predictive Search gives you when you start typing a search starting with “is “. Interesting that the possibility of Facebook being down is the most significant concern facing mankind today. Plus, I know Lady Gaga is far from being the prize pig, but still… Read more

Bob Dylan – The Original Mono Recordings Is it excessive that I now have 3 versions of some of Dylan’s albums – CD, remastered CD, and now mono CD? (and a full 70 albums in total). Expensive, but worth every cent. And to give Columbia credit, they included a code to download the entire box as MP3s, to save me ripping everything (although these are best appreciated off the CD on a decent stereo). Say what you want, Dylan is a stone genius. Read more