Eviscerated

I wanted to work that word into an essay today but failed. Eviscerated is a cool word I must use more often. Note that I don’t mean that in a disembowelling context (err, most of the time) ;-)

Cruisin’ Dog

I’ve never seen a dog that looked so chilled out stuck in traffic. Snapped today whilst driving. Mobile phones got nothin’ on this. (We were stopped in traffic). If anyone ever legislates against me taking photos whilst driving I think I’ll start crying.

Coolest building ever

Volkswagen’s car-storage facility in Wolfsburg, Germany.

(Image blatantly stolen from site linked to).

Australian copyright reform; or, the Creation of Sensible Legislation.

SMH Article: Cutting crime as easy as MP3

Woot. The best bit:

Schools, universities, libraries and other cultural institutions will in the future be free to use copyright material for non-commercial purposes.

Dubious bit:

In a big win for recording artists, the laws will include the removal of the legislative 1 per cent cap on copyright licence fees paid by radio broadcasters for playing sound recordings.

Dubious because I’m really uncertain as to how that’s going to pan out… I’m thinking it’s actually going to further inhibit the scope of the music we hear on commercial radio! Non-commercial radio… well, who knows? Is that a “cultural institution”?

We’ll see how it pans out. I’m now keen on getting an MP3 player/phone that plays MP3s (and has at least 512MB on an SD card, none of this super-tiny-memory stuff you find in phones). Orange stop operations at the beginning of August, I think, so I’ve got until then…

Natural Light

Find the natural source of light in this picture…

(Quick + dirty digital snap. It looked much prettier IRL.)