Excellent analysis of the current state of the music industry.

Seems Roger’s pig got the urge to fly off, but it’s been returned. Not quite intact, however.

BBC has a brief video.

At last: a chance to re-use my photo of Roger’s inflatable pig from Calgary in June…

Get out of the road if you want to grow old.

This has got to be the biggest non-announcement ever.

1. no date (show me “before the year is out” on a calendar)
2. no price (would they like my left- or right arm-and-a-leg?)
3. no new info (beyond the worst-kept secret in Canadian telephony history; that Rogers, the only pan-Canadian GSM network, would carry it… some time. later.)

Sigh. My guess is we’ll see lots of mainstream TV shows in iTunes’ Canadian store before we see iPhones for non-millionaires.

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I threw out three expensive water bottles late last year — models which the manufacturer has since replaced with bottles featuring a different plastic — and switched to metal bottles by SIGG.

The thing that annoys me most about this sort of threat — however small it may be — is that manufacturers are automatically given a pass until something is proven, at someone else’s great expense, to be harmful.

Don’t look for this to change soon. And kudos to NBC for showing some of their sponsors’ products in this piece: I’ll bet someone took some heat for that.

…in which John C. Welch uses the word ‘fuck’ as punctuation.

Terri has a story about Dr. Laing Ferguson’s Arthropleura fossil — whose tracks adorned the walls of what was then called PEG when I worked there in the mid-1990s — going home to Joggins.

Of course, this might be partly due to the fact that nobody buys CDs any more… But still…

(Via ArsTechnica.)