The black dots in the sky are birds, hundreds of them. It was an amazing sight that my phone camera doesn’t do justice to.
The black dots in the sky are birds, hundreds of them. It was an amazing sight that my phone camera doesn’t do justice to.
RIAA Confirms it's Behind the Muxtape Shutdown -
Actually, it looks like Muxtape may indeed be closed indefinitely. The RIAA says it has been in communication with the site over the past several months over the getting the “illegal content” taken down. In order to get the RIAA’s official blessing, Muxtape would likely have to sign a licensing agreement and begin paying royalties à la last.fm and Pandora. An agreement would dissipate the legal gray cloud hanging over Muxtape, but the royalty burden may well prove onerous, as industry stalwarts like Pandora are considering closing up shop due to the high royalty rates demanded by rightsholders.
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A standard wine bottle holds 750 milliliters of wine and generates about 5.2 pounds of carbon-dioxide emissions when it travels from a vineyard in California to a store in New York. A 3-liter box generates about half the emissions per 750 milliliters. Switching to wine in a box for the 97 percent of wines that are made to be consumed within a year would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by about two million tons, or the equivalent of retiring 400,000 cars. …
What’s more, boxed wine is superior to glass bottle storage in resolving that age-old problem of not being able to finish a bottle in one sitting. Once open, a box preserves wine for about four weeks compared with only a day or two for a bottle. Boxed wine may be short on charm, but it is long on practicality.
” — Wine in a Box Protects the Environment and Saves You Money - NYTimes.com (via Daring Fireball)
My iPhone camera can’t capture the detail, but the flames are huge!
Fire drama in Richmond!
Magazine Misses Memo On 'Potter' Postponement : NPR - I laughed out loud when my Entertainment Weekly arrived a few days ago!
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I’m also realizing that I haven’t posted in nearly four days. Wow, I guess being sick and busy will do that to you!
I’m just realizing that the bottom fade-out for the lowest photo on Tumblr Radar may make something appear racier than it actually is.
“No doubt Obama and McCain want to relieve Americans’ discomfort at the pump. The trouble is that Americans should feel discomforted. We want a return to cheap, secure oil; we want painless pathways to lower greenhouse-gas emissions. These are fantasies; they should not be indulged.” — Reality Check on Campaign Energy Plans | Robert J. Samuelson | Newsweek.com
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Pushed to July 2009! -
Warner Brothers has delayed the release of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince from Thanksgiving 2008 to July 17, 2009.
WHAT?!
:-(
Short Men Rock : NPR - Have you ever noticed that the greatest Americans are all 5-foot-7? Ahem.
caro:
It’s funny ‘cause it’s true.
LOL Bush from The Guardian via The Engineer.
“A Wikipedia editor emailed Political Wire to point out some similarities between Sen. John McCain’s speech today on the crisis in Georgia and the Wikipedia article on the country Georgia. Given the closeness of the words and sentence structure, most would consider parts of McCain’s speech to be derived directly from Wikipedia.” —
CQ Politics | Political Insider - Did McCain Plagiarize His Speech on the Georgia Crisis? (via mikehudack)
It’s a clever ploy in which McCain attempts to prove that he knows how to use a computer.
(via caro)