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Somedays, you get the bear…...other days, the bear gets you. During the ICEX 2003 naval exercises near the North Pole, the American submarine Connecticut (SSN 22) poked it’s sail and rudder through the ice. When an officer looked around outside via the periscope, he noted that his sub was being stalked by a hostile polar bear. The periscope cam was turned on, and these photos of a polar bear chewing on the subs rear rudder resulted. The damage was said to be minor.... (Link goes to photo of bear-enabled rudder) (via Winds of Change) -----...


The Dawn of Legit Music DownloadsWell, iTunes Music Store on Windows has cost me a bunch of money so far… I like the organization, the samples, the ability to see related artists and everything—it was very easy to end up with a huge laundry list of backlist stuff that I’ve been meaning to acquire and add to my library, and so I broke down and acquired some of it. Not from iTunes Music Store, mind you… iTunes doesn’t share the iPod nicely (to put it mildly) with J. Rivers Music Center, which is by far my favorite piece of music organizing and iPod handling software. That particular pain in the ass, combined with having to deal with the music being in a different format (AAC)...


5 Ways to copy music OFF your iPod (Windows / Mac OS X)So, you've got music on your iPod that you don't have on your computer? It doesn't matter how you got in this predicament -- maybe you've lost a hard drive (or an entire computer), or you've accidently deleted just a little too much, and for one reason or another, you don't have the original source of the music. If any of that sounds familiar, the time to fix it is now -- before you lose your iPod (and your music), or iTunes manages to get set to automatically sync your entire library (its default state, if you have to re-install it) and starts deleting all of the songs it doesn't know about. Unfortunately, the standard tool for transferring music between...


Unleaded DRMI'm already tired of hearing people bitch about the new iTunes Store / EMI deal to offer DRM-free music. The typical whine is about paying $0.30 more for them not to put DRM on the music. Get a grip, folks -- for your $0.30, you also get a reasonable sampling rate (256Kb/s AAC - double the old rate -- is awfully close to CD quality), and if you don't want to buy ala carte, the whole album (without DRM, at 256Kb/s) is the same price as the old DRM'd up one. Besides, it's not like they don't know you'll go for it -- how much extra money did you pay the oil companies to not put lead in your gasoline?...


The Holy War on MP3sSummer of 2003 -- welcome to the holy war on MP3s. The amount of hype and noise going on right now is incredible. The RIAA served 871 supoenas Friday to track down "low-end" file traders. Moron politicos are suggesting "cures" ranging from destroying file trader's computers to prison sentences more severe than you'd be liable to get if you held up a music store with a handgun. The music industry is purposing that the FBI be sent out after file traders, on the taxpayer's nickle. I've even seen newscasts showing screenshots of Kazaa, and claiming that downloading music is "helping the terrorists win". (Obviously the original point was that buying pirated material finances somebody, maybe even a terrorist or two,...