Category: outside

A San Francisco guy who had his motorcycle vandalized twice in a couple of days wrote an open letter to the perpetrator. I laughed out loud a few times, though it still sucks that his bike was violated like that.

I’m starting to lean this way myself.

Sony has launched their Connect digital music service. It boasts the largest music selection (bigger than iTunes?) and has the same pricing structure as the rest (99 cents a track, etc). It’s for Windows only and I think it uses their own proprietary ATRAC-3 digital music format and is playable on their own Minidisc devices.

A man reportedly paid $1.1 million for a mobile phone number. The number is 135.8585.8585 and is pronounced “let me be rich, be rich, be rich, be rich” in Chinese. Umm… yeah.

NEC has developed a battery that can be charged in 30 seconds. It’s expected to cost about the same amount as current nickel-hydrogen batteries once production is in full swing. They claim it will make some battery powered devices more convenient. No kidding!

… and one of them is tackled unnecessarily by police. Should I be surprised?

A 17-year old boy in Cambodia refuses to wear clothing. Since he was a toddler he has primarily worn nothing. He is uneducated because they won’t let him enter the schools naked. He says he will not wear clothing even if his parents beat him to a pulp. If that wasn’t odd enough, he also doesn’t like to get his hair cut. When his hair is cut, he acts ‘strange’ (everything is relative) and attempts to kill chickens and ducks. I have urges to do that when my hair is cut too, but I don’t actually do it. I think this might be an issue of self-control.

You might be saying ‘how could a rape game be good?’, but apparently for some people it is. Some guy accidentally attacked the wrong woman while attempting to enact a rape sexual fantasy with a willing partner. He faces a year in jail and probation.

Let this be a lesson to all of you sexual deviants out there! If you’re going to enact a rape fantasy, make sure you get the address right. Geez, what’s the world coming to?

Continuing in my ‘naked girl’ theme, I’ve run across some free boobies, and big ones at that. The site describes itself as “Vintage Erotica Dedicated To The Roberta Pedon Era…Of The 1970’s”. Lots of great material for that research project on erotica you’re all working on.

I picked up this link from The Phone Girl’s Journal, which I got from Pussy Ranch, which I got from Belle de Jour, which seems to be extremely well known and the author is now working on a book as a result. All of those sites are worth checking out if you’re at all interested in sexy people or run-on sentences.

The DVD Forum has chosen AAC for the DVD-Rom zone of DVD-Audio discs. The zone will be used by portable players and includes a lossy encoded version of the album content. AAC was chosen over MP3, Microsoft’s WMA, and Sony’s ATRAC. Details here.

Apple uses AAC with its own custom DRM wrapper called Fairplay for the content on the iTunes Music Store. This announcement does add credibility to the AAC format and will maybe make the world at large realize that it is not a ‘closed’ format as the WMA advocates have been claiming. Fairplay is still closed however, and it remains to be seen if that will become a problem for Apple.

UPDATE:
As pointed out by an astute viewer, this isn’t fully true. Check the comments for the details.