We didn’t have much of a Halloween as we spent it in a Starbucks doing, respectively, homework and grading. Maybe that’s scary enough….

Oh. And there are totally boobies.

Your windbloggery reminded me of a discussion I had in the middle of the woods after a rain storm. A programmer friend and I discussed why people don’t steal shit if buying it is just as easy. There’s a good lesson there that the DRM knuckle draggers have yet to figure out.

I guess the intent of the moby-CD array is so they can record the voices in lossless HD stereo. Of course, there are very few people who sit in their audio room listening to original recordings of “The Automobile Girls in Minnesota”. Most everybody else listens the way we do, through 1/2″ earbuds while doing something else, or the was my friend does, in a car with all weather tires and a leaky doorframe. In addition, I suspect the kind of people who listen to audiobooks are (a) like me, old, or (b) like you, younger, but recently returned from a Spinal Tap concert.

The point being, all those extra quality bits are being wasted, and MP3 or OGG is a perfectly acceptable way to do things. Of course, they probably couldn’t charge as much.

I am reminded of one US diplomat’s complaint, back in the 80′s, about use of the word “detent”. He wanted to know why we had to come up with some new foreign term when there was a perfectly good American word we could use already: “rapprochement”

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/fdJ5HgsC2IQ/thumbdrive-sized-pc.html

Of course, you’ll have to provide your own keyboard and display, but think of the cool factor when you open your coat and proceed to assemble a PC right there on the Max

This was actually to let you know that I refreshed my RSS feed, so you can check what kind of signal got through to you.

Whew.