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I’ve really been slack here lately on updating due to my new job that has me putting in near 65 hours a week.
So with that being said, Happy New Year, and I hope that you keep coming back to visit occasionally.
Ajay

The band, Nine Inch Nails, contract with their music label expired this month making them free agents in the music world.
They follow Radio Head in making their own distribution, and setting their own price for their music.
I agree with them that the record companies were humping them royally as middle men.
You can read and see the video of Trent Reznor telling his former record company to F**k off, and telling everyone in the audience to steal their music.

Catch the piece here….
Less than a month after publicly calling executives at his music label unprintable names, rocker Trent Reznor has signaled that his days of working for a record company are over.

This is a interesting site on your rights in the information age, specifically if you are blogging.
It’s a large source of information, so it may take a few reads to get through the bulk of the information. This one is a bookmarker…, keep it for future reference when you are dissing Microsoft, and Bill and company brings his legion of lawyers, and billions of bucks, and you are not sweating it, because you know your rights.

Get the Feed here…

Some of the things that you read sometimes…., as for example…., Berlin Police report that a Turkish man has been charged with breaking German animal protection laws after he was caught on camera having sex with sheep.

The sheep’s owner became suspicious last year and installed video surveillance equipment which filmed the 44-year-old in the act, police said.

( I not sure what disturbs me the most…, the placing of the cams to watch him have sex with the sheep, or the process for determining the sheep had been sodomized)

He admitted sodomising the animals and had no explanation for his actions. (uhhhh…., I could give you one or two)

The most interesting thing about this story is that it’s a New Zealand information site.
Hmmmm, other side of world and in a different hemisphere, and New Zealand is keeping tabs on that kind of stuff.
Don’t they have a lot of sheep in New Zealand? : )

See the Article Here…

The last two weeks have been busy for space fans.

The Cassini mission to Saturn surveying Saturn and it’s moons (all 35 of them) has photographed more lakes of methane on Titan near the poles, that are larger than the lakes that were spotted near the equator.

Also the New Horizons space craft just got a major sling shot boost from Jupiter adding almost 9000 MPH on its way to visit Pluto in 2015, thus making it the fastest man made object in the solar system traveling at about 52,000 MPH. To put that in perspective, you could fly from New York to Tokyo in under 8 minutes. As NH was passing Jupiter, it took some amazing photo’s of Jupiter and its moons. One in paticular is a shot of Io and its volcano, Tvashtar, with a volcanic plume 180 miles into space. Like earth, Io is one of the most volcanic planets in our solar system.

We move a little closer to home where on the ground at Mars the twin rovers continue their incredible extended mission after arriving on mars in 2004, two and a half years after landing, and both rovers are still working and have far exceeded their initial 90-day warranties on Mars. They both are still seeking out water, and some type of proof that there was life on Mars.
The rover Opportunity just passed the six mile mark, and continues to gather data in search of a potential future entry point into “Victoria Crater.” The rover is traversing the crater rim near an alcove known as “Bottomless Bay,” assessing whether it might eventually serve as an entry point, and collecting images of the crater’s interior cliffs, while Spirit, continues driving, searching for dust devils and clouds using WATCH computer commands, and acquiring other remote sensing data.

Up in the sky at Mars, Mars Global Surveyer, which was launched in 1997 which has not been heard from since November of 2006 is the oldest of the satellites and is feared lost, looks to be written off for good. While orbiting Mars for almost ten years, it provided a lot of good science prior to the arrival of the rovers and the newer satellites.
Mars Odyssey, which is the second oldest satellite (arrived 2001) and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter which arrived in 2006 continue to send back great images and information.
However, MRO seems to be having a few issues that the science team is looking at.

Even closer to home, our 17 year old friend the Hubble Telescope that has provide unseen photos of the beginings of the universe, and photo’s of nebulas, is having some health issues again. But this is not to be unexpected. Are you still using a 17 year old computer daily? However, Hubble keeps chugging along, with a repair service mission from the shuttle some time in the next year. This will hold Hubble out until Nasa can lunch and bring online the replacement for Hubble in 2013, the James Webb telescope, which is said to be multiple times better than Hubble. I’m really interested to see this in action, because, I’ve been nothing short of amazed with Hubble.

Last but not least was our Moons full lunar eclipse friday night. It’s not a too unusual thing to happen, but it none the less is always fascinating to me to go darkish red, then go back to normal.

If you like following any of the events I mentioned above, you can go to NASA’s Portal, and search for your favorite.

Kirk to Enterprise…, Scotty, Beam me up!

This SEC options thing must be chafing co-founder and número uno Steve Jobs at Apple Inc really bad.

Last week he essentially tore the record industry a new hole, by blasting them about DRM on downloaded music and challenged them to abandon the DRM strategy, which I think a majority of consumers and device makers want as well.

This week he took a swing at educators, blasting the teachers unions and the state of public schools by saying “that schools were never likely to improve until principals could fire bad teachers.” Steve shared the stage with rival CEO Michael Dell to deliver their vision of technology in classrooms. Jobs’ comments drew loud applause during an education conference, but while Jobs’ comments seemed to be drawing support from the crowd, Dell’s CEO, sat quietly with his hands folded in his lap.

Steve Jobs was reported to use the term, ” Off the charts Crazy” when referring to the unionization and lifetime employment of K-12 teachers.
After making that statement, Steve admitted that “Apple just lost some business in this state, I’m sure.”

One thing that you must admit about Steve Jobs is he calls it how he sees it, even if it’s not necessarily the way that it is. But then again that’s part of the legendary Steve Jobs Distortion Reality Field. You can read the whole article here…and more here…