http://chris.tantramar.com Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 08 May 2008 00:02:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Why Apple is more expensive than Amazon: "Buy what you like, where you like. But remember why things are the way they are. Apple is more expensive than Amazon because the labels want you listening to music on a Zune." Excellent analysis of the current state of the music industry. http://chris.tantramar.com/2008/05/07/why-apple-is-more-expensive-than-amazon/ BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Floyd inflatable pig is recovered: "Floyd inflatable pig is recovered" 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 ... http://chris.tantramar.com/2008/04/30/bbc-news-entertainment-floyd-inflatable-pig-is-recovered/ Rogers bringing Apple's iPhone to Canada: "the announcement the company would start selling the iPhone" This has got to be the biggest non-announcement ever. no date (show me "before the year is out" on a calendar) no price (would they like my left- or right arm-and-a-leg?) no new info (beyond the worst-kept secret ... http://chris.tantramar.com/2008/04/29/rogers-bringing-apples-iphone-to-canada/ Pharyngula: Bloggers, you have a job to do: Expelled http://chris.tantramar.com/2008/04/14/because-i-always-do-what-im-told/ Accelerometer-based Cycling jacket wins design award: this very-cool idea will save more lives than bicycle helmets... .) http://chris.tantramar.com/2008/04/14/bbc-newsbeat-technology-cycling-jacket-wins-design-award/ My 5th generation iPod (30 GB) has given up the ghost. Sad iPod icon and everything. 'Josiah' at Apple tech support says it's probably the hard drive, and that it's not likely worth fixing; since it's out of warranty, the repair cost is nearly as much as the replacement cost. ... http://chris.tantramar.com/2008/04/12/good-bye-ipod-ill-miss-you/ VIDEO: Are Plastic Water Bottles Safe? : DivineCaroline: "Are Plastic Water Bottles Safe?" 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 ... http://chris.tantramar.com/2008/04/10/video-are-plastic-water-bottles-safe-divinecaroline/ bynkii.com: "This is, without doubt, the shittiest installer I have ever dealt with." ...in which John C. Welch uses the word 'fuck' as punctuation. http://chris.tantramar.com/2008/04/07/bynkiicom/ Bay of Fundy Blog: "Fundy fossil takes a walk...." 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. http://chris.tantramar.com/2008/04/04/bay-of-fundy-blog-arthropleura-goes-home/ iTunes Store Top Music Retailer in the US: "iTunes Store Top Music Retailer" Of course, this might be partly due to the fact that nobody buys CDs any more... But still... (Via ArsTechnica.) http://chris.tantramar.com/2008/04/03/itunes-store-top-music-retailer-in-the-us/