Why I love this place, reason 457. Thanks!

If it's not lifting your computer monitor to the right height, you're not doing it right.

Here's a clip of this years incarnation featuring cowboy hat dude (though with his…

Sorry, joined this a bit late. The cowboy dude in the elevator is a…

I would hope that reliable is always one of the two picked. And on that measure, surely the humble book is a stand-out performer? I have in my possession books old enough to have the obligatory foreword by Mao Zedong,…

I wouldn't trust magnetic media for much longer than that either (see here for some analysis) although in the case of a lot of failure modes, recovery might be possible with (expensive) clean-room techniques.

Your best…

I posted on Geekzone about this issue a couple of years ago. Since then, the cost of Blu-ray backup has…

Well since the zip drive died, and was thrown away, that could be tricky.

I also have copies lurking on my hard drive, well actually on several hard drives. Oh and there's the paper copy on the shelf above…

Quite possibly they do. The experience of being in charge of the office computers has shown me that an awful lot of people are technologically very naive, and that there is absolutely no correlation between that naivite and age.

And…

AND no one else in my band…

Are you absolutely sure about that? When did you last check you could still access the data?

My EDAX ststem that I had on the electron microscope I was using in the mid ninties had 8 inch floppy disks – with a whoping 179kB capacity on each.

I still have my thesis on zip disks and floppies.

Quite . As the link says "Bilirubin is excreted in bile and urine"
I dunno but the words excrete, urine and bile in the same sentence doesn't do anything for me.
Happy and comfortable taking a piss any time but excreting…

Bilirubin, however, is a wholly different ball game...

The colour of bilirubin! Which is important stuff. I'm sure you wanted to know that.

That video is AWESOME! Just watched if for the first of a gazillion times. Are your sure Gangnam Style isn't Korean for ‘ZOMG Ponies’?

The Atlantic article is very interesting but sheds no light on my favourite part, Inexplicable Pelvic-Thrusting Cowboy Hat Guy in Elevator (at about 1.55). Yes, I have watched this video one gazillion times. DON'T JUDGE ME.

I'm not sure if I love it or hate it! I think I love it. There's nobody like her, that's fo sure.

ETA: Whoops. Wrong link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Egg_iIuzZv4

I thought Extraordinary Machine was…extraordinary.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsMZkCLxfkM&feature=fvst

Thanks Geoff. I was a big fan of Fiona Apple in her early phase. This sounds interesting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBrDONDeQIM

Gangnam is a tony Seoul neighborhood, and Park's "Gangnam Style" video lampoons its self-importance and ostentatious wealth, with Psy playing a clownish caricature of a Gangnam man. That alone makes it…

It gets interesting around 3:45.

Hahaha yeah, Big Bang's self-absorbed, imperialistic singles were never going to be the easiest sell to people not already bound up in it.

But yeah, like, does K-Pop have to be self-mocking to be successful in the West? (Not that Psy is, but…

It takes itself a tad too seriously?

Something interesting about why Psy was the break out hit, but say, this not so much.

Whole idea of breaking into the US market pretty fascinating.

Also the extent to which K Pop is this pulsating artificial fakery, Phil Oakley and Gary Numan and all…

The cheap ones of any brand, I gather — because they're the ones that used unstable vegetable dyes.

The worst $345 I ever spent in my life. In 1997.

Any brands in particular that are infamous for CD rot?

When I was working at the National Library in the discussion over the NDHA (archiving all of .nz) and how they would store the masses of data that would be collected for ever. Think CDs, even ‘archive quality’ were 10 years max, DVDs were a…

Thanks, I think that video made my day. :-)

https://vimeo.com/47793390