Someone please tell me why this was uploaded to the Internet.
I’ll buy a beer* for the best answer.

*and drink it myself

So called “Turntablism” is now officially dead.

Hear that? It’s the death rattle of DRM. It’s still hanging in, but it smells worse than the back of a Denny’s at this point. eMusic is becoming a big enough player that a move like this will make waves even among the chronically clueless.

eMusic is now broadening into audiobooks, and spinning its spoken catalog [...]

Note perfect.

Courtesy of Lisa — thanks!

A new development in the ongoing search for adventurer and Richard Branson buddy Steve Fossett.
But as the search for the 63-year-old enters its second week, rescuers have received help from an unlikely source: Google Earth. The satellite imaging program has released new, up-to-date images of Nevada which, through a collaborative system run by Amazon [...]

This is the best company name I’ve come across since I first discovered a magical little place called Pen Island.

43 Folders links to a really interesting interview about our increasing inability to filter all the information in our lives, and the madness that can ultimately ensue as a result.
The original interview is good, but it’s the commentary on the 43 Folders site itself that totally nails it for me:
I think one of the emerging [...]

Water, that is. And maybe a lawyer. That’s what a Union City, Georgia cop might be telling himself today following the arrest of a local McDonald’s employee.

Yes, as if working at McDonald’s wasn’t enough of a pain in the ass, apparently you can now get tossed in jail on obscure charges of burger hypersalination.

UNION CITY, [...]

I stumbled on this fascinating (and sometimes hilarious) history of coca wine, which, over time, essentially became Coca Cola.

According to the Sears, Roebuck and Co. Consumers’ Guide (1900), their extraordinary Peruvian Wine of Coca…
“…sustains and refreshes both the body and brain….It may be taken at any time with perfect safety…it has [...]