4/13/2007

Friday comes around so quickly! Welcome Jason to my “whatever caught my interest on the internet this week” list!

* April 22 is Earth Day. I’ve been putting off sending this link as it can be a somewhat charged issue, but I’ll step out and assume that everyone cares for the environment even if you don’t agree with global warming. The movie, An Inconvenient Truth, makes a compelling argument that global warming _is_ an issue, and that it is caused by our impact on the planet. http://www.climatecrisis.net/ Sarah and I watched it recently, and found it useful in renewing our conservation efforts at home. If you would prefer your facts with the bare minimum of interpretation, the National Climatic Data Center put together a nice summary for 2006 weather at http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2006/ann/ann06.html They said “The 2006 average annual temperature for the contiguous U.S. was the warmest on record” and ended with “The past nine years have all been among the 25 warmest years on record for the contiguous U.S., a streak which is unprecedented in the historical record.”
* Apple recently announced 100 million iPods sold to date. http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/04/09ipod.html To put it in perspective, Forbes has a nice article http://www.forbes.com/2007/04/09/apple-ipod-xbox-tech-cx_rr_0409ipod.html?partner=yahootix about how few companies ship that many of anything, and that Apple got there faster than anyone before. BlackBerry? only 7 million. Razr phone? 60 million. Microsoft’s Zune? They haven’t even hit 1 million yet.
* Steve Jobs posted “Thoughts on Music” http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/ a while back, and EMI responded http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/04/02itunes.html saying their music will be available in iTunes at higher quality and free of DRM. If you have interest in the DRM/digital audio format thread the music industry has struggled with the last couple years, you may find DaringFireball’s analysis of the change enjoyable. http://daringfireball.net/2007/04/some_facts_about_aac


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