iPods

Posted on September 5, 2007 by Paul — No Comments ↓

Head to a real or virtual Apple store near you to check out the new iPods. And by new, I mean like way new; this isn’t just a bump in capacity, this is 2 entirely new ranges, and revisions to everything that wasn’t new. As with the iPod Mini, replaced when it was still Apple’s highest selling product, Apple shows that one way to success is to just keep pushing out the greatness when it’s ready, not when your graphs show that your cash cow is waning.

Anyway, you can see the details for yourself, I just wanted to point out a minor detail. The iPod Classic (I feel like Classic should be written in curly script for some reason) now goes up to 160GB. I won’t bore you with tales of my first hard drive (20MB, if you’re asking), but dude, 160GB is just an assload of storage by anyone’s measure.

Light Posting

Posted on September 4, 2007 by Paul — 2 Comments ↓

On vacation this week, so posting will be strictly whim-based.

Re: Your Brains

Posted on August 31, 2007 by Paul — No Comments ↓

Great song from Jonathon Coulton, including an elegant recovery from a mistake.

If you can’t tell, the chorus is “All we want to do is eat your brains”

Unbelievable

Posted on August 30, 2007 by Paul — No Comments ↓

You would think this is a fake, except that the filmmakers wouldn’t even be allowed to fake it.

Tutu

Posted on August 29, 2007 by Paul — No Comments ↓

A quick break from politics to slip in some religion. I’ve read a couple of things recently pointing out what is obvious but somehow ignored: Religious people are obsessed with the gays! (and if Desmond says it, you know it must be true). The latest in a long, long line is Senator Craig, who just to be clear is totally not gay, OK?

Now I’m not going to say that their opinions on homosexuality are wrong (they are, but that’s not my concern here). There’s certainly a reading of the Bible that would back up their view for Christians and Jews, and while I’m less informed I’m sure something similar is true in the Koran.

So it might be wrong, but there is a case to be made. But, to bang once again on my most quoted statistic, a child starves to death every 5 seconds. It is utterly inconceivable to me that any god worthy of praise would want us to focus on which gender some guy loves when through pure indifference a child dies in the time it takes to… well, what the hell can you do in 5 seconds? Turn the TV on? Scratch your arse?

Should the matter come up in conversation I see no reason to hide your dislike of homosexuality, or adultery, or broccoli (it’s your right to appear as foolish as you choose), but otherwise, to quote the great philosopher Chandler Bing, “Big picture please!”