Do your part by deleting those lame birthday photos

An IDC research report commissioned by EMC exposes a revelation that, for the first  time ever, the total volume of digital information exceeds the world’s total storage capacity. Further troubling, it is estimated that by 2011 only half of the digital world will be stored. The current estimate of 281 billion gigabytes equates to roughly [...]

Eat me autobots

Saw this on Boing Boing this morning - for the husband’s 30th birthday his wife had an Optimus Prime cake custom made by a Nashville cake shop, The French Confection.
The tasty details:

Brownies for dirt
Fondant for grass
Cake and rice krispie treats for body

 
The thing is the size of a toddler

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Happy birthday MP3

Current Song: Nirvana - All Apologies

I’d just like to say that today, July 14th, is the audio-codec-currently-known-as MP3’s 10th Birthday! It amazes me that it is still the defacto digital audio standard after all this time, even with competing formats like AAC, WMA, and Ogg.

Thank you Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS.