>Oh… so nice. I just re-downloaded much of the old music I had purchased off iTunes. iTunes finally went full DRM free – 256k, not the best but almost. 320k is the most you can get normally and most pop tunes won’t fill that bandwidth on VBR (variable bit rate – adjusts the size to fit how complicated the music is). In any case there were a lot of tracks I had lost when the mac harddrive originally went – I had backed it up but I hadn’t gotten them all. At the time Pepsi was doing their promotion. 1…
YouTube may not be free for much longer
Doubt this – it’s all about the video ads. What they’re claiming is true about advertisers doesn’t reflect the recent ads I saw for Monty Python and the Holy Grail on Amazon while watching the lego version on Youtube.”Do to its tremendous bandwidth costs — and relatively menial advertisement revenue — YouTube, owned by Google, is losing $500 million per year. Free internet video may become a relic soon enough.” ~ brought to you by Charter read more | digg story *2012 04 24* Still free…
Review: 2009 Nissan GT-R – MSN Autos
Nissan creates the perfect blend of performance and drivability. read more | digg story
Tom Brokaw’s Early Reports About the Internet
Vintage NBC News footage from 1994 and 1995 of Tom Brokaw reporting on the dawn of the internet. Includes interviews with Bill Gates and Eric Schmidt. “This new electronic world promises to have virtual shopping malls where you can roam from place to place and buy things at the click of a mouse” read more | digg story
Video Game Consists Solely Of Shooting People In The Face
Hot new game, Close Range. read more | digg story
How It Feels To Walk With Honda’s Cyborg Legs
Few geeks haven’t dreamt of one day taking on cyborg enhancements—me included. And today I did, thanks to two of Honda’s wearable Asimo-inspired Walk Assist devices. This is how it felt. – Odelia Lee read more | digg story
Incredible Laser Etching on Dollar Bills [Pics]
Tattoo artist Scott Campbell turns a hundred dollars worth of bills into something worth far more. read more | digg story
Give the Paparazzi the Finger [PICS]
The Argentinean magazine Paparazzi wanted to do something noticeable for its 5th birthday. They hired agency Publicis to create these racy sun shades and place them in cars near clubs known for celebrity sightings. The models are apparently well known in Argentina. read more | digg story
"Sound Of Music" Train Station Dance: Why Is It So Popular?
A video of almost 200 people taking over Antwerpen’s Centraal Station in Belgium and doing a carefully choreographed dance to the Do Re Mi song (aka Maria’s Dance aka Maria’s Song) from “Sound of Music” has garnered almost a million views on YouTube, and continues to grow, sprouting a new round of google trends today. read more | digg story
The Real Story of Area 51 from Five People on the Inside
The myths of Area 51 are hard to dispute if no one can speak on the record about what actually happened there. Well, now, for the first time, someone is ready to talk—in fact, five men are, and their stories rival the most outrageous of rumors… read more | digg story